Using the TV’s Features48 Chapter 3Using the Web BrowserYou can start the browser on your TV by selecting it from the mainmenu. The TV front panel and remote control provide basic navigationwithout a keyboard. If you launch the browser from the main menu, amessage will pop up to suggest that you use a keyboard to connect tothe Internet.The optional keyboard will allow you to get optimum use of webbrowser features. The keyboard KBR755TA1 is available through URL:www.rca.com/keyboard or order the keyboard through a toll freenumber, 800-798-5875.When the browser is started for the first time, the browser goes to anRCA website. All FAV keyboard buttons are also initially programmed tothat site. The FAV SEARCH button on the keyboard defaults to a searchsite but you can reprogram it.The FORMAT button on your remote (or keyboard) allows you to cyclethrough various combinations of a less than full screen browser andsome TV video. Just press the button again to use a different format. Ifyou usually use this method to browse, change the layout periodically toreduce the effects of uneven screen aging.To close the browser entirely, press CLEAR on the remote. You maydiscover that other browser windows are open. This may be the result ofa pop-up window being delivered from the site you were viewing.Note: The browser doesn’t handle streaming video or audio andsome animated graphics.TipsInputs cannot be viewed in the video window of thebrowser.If you use the video window in the browser and youpress channel up/down and the video window seems todisappear, this means you’ve either tuned to a channelwhich is blocked or has a weak signal. Use the channelupldown to go to another channel.You can use channel up/down to tune to a differentchannel in the video window. Number keys cannot beused to tune channels in the video window.The message “PIP Not Viewable or Exceeds Rating” in thechannel banner lets you know that PIP is not available on thischannel and you should tune to another channel.PIP Problems?• If you are channel surfing and the PIP disappears, you may have tuned to a digital channel. Toview PIP and the main picture, make sure that both the main and PIP channels are analoginputs, or signals. Continue changing the channel until you find an analog (NTSC format)channel. The PIP window will reappear.• If you press PIP and the PIP box is grayed, you may have movie or TV rating limits set. Theselimits may block your access to the PIP channel. For information on removing limits, see thesection “Parental Controls.”• You cannot view closed captioning in the PIP window.• PIP channel skips all digital (ATSC) TV channels and tunes to analog channels.• PIP cannot be displayed from component inputs.