Installation #4 Software
After filling in the data we turn on the TV and Radio. If your hit the Test Picture button you'll see a test signal (white & black stripes) on the TV at channel 35. this means the TV settings are properly configured. Same goes for sound, hit the Test Sound button a series a bleeps can be heard on your Radio. If both signals work properly then we now enter the last bit of configuration ... adding content into the PalmButler TV Software. In the PalmButler software we now click the 'Configuration' button. This new menu will load.
I'll keep it short and simple, make some main-menu maps in the left window and then drag and drop content like movies, MP3's and photo's into the left menu. You can select static menu's which means you insert for example thee movies into a directory. or you can select Dynamic content. In this case any file you copy into that map will be shown in the menu. So if you unpack a movie into that directory the TV-Menu will display it immediately on TV.
The fun part about the TV menu software is that is utilizes windows and it's codecs. You can throw DiVX movies into a menu and the PalmButler software will play it for you. The same goes for XViD, AVI files or basically any media stream that has a Codec. There was only one format that would refuse to playback properly through the TV Menu software and that was S-VCD. In such a case you can simply bypass the TV Menu and use any DVD playback software to playback the movie on TV. Furthermore everything I tested played back properly. This included, MP3's HQ over your Radio, DiVX movies, XViD movies and DVD. The good part of the menu system is also that it can utilize maps over a network. So if you have a MP3 collection somewhere on another PC you can include that path into the menu software.
Look at the menu structure we created as seen in the above picture and then let's take a look at what we see on the television, compare them:
With the remote we can now select for example the mp3 menu and it would become this:
This next submenu shows all my MP3 albums, when we select an album we can see this:
These are the MP3 located in the directory. Now you just select a tune and it will playback. This basically is the way the entire menu system works.
The sound quality over the Radio is good to average. When you crank up the volume high there will be noise. The playback quality simply is good. I had to equalize the sound a little to get peachy fine sound from my receiver but overall sound simply is good.
