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Table of contents
HDD, disc and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Important notes for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
HDD (Hard disk drive) handling care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Disc and card handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Unit care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Included accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
The remote control information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Control reference guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The unit’s display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
STEP 1 Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
STEP 2 Channel reception settings and
TV aspect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
GUIDE Plus+ system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
GUIDE Plus+ data download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Editing programme lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Changing the settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Set up to match your television and remote control . .22
To enjoy progressive video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Disc Insertion/Ejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
To specify a time to stop recording—One Touch Recording . . . 26
Recording settings for High Speed Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the GUIDE Plus+ system to make timer recordings . . . . 28
Operations in the GUIDE Plus+ system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using S
HOWVIEW number to make timer recordings . . . . . . . . . 30
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 31
To release the unit from recording standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Relief Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
VPS/PDC function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Recording broadcasts from an external equipment . . .33
Making timer recordings on the television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Recording from digital/satellite receiver or decoder . . . . . . . . . . 33
Linked timer recordings with
external equipment (digital/satellite receiver) — EXT LINK . . 33
Playing recorded video contents/
Playing play-only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Operations during play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Playing DivX discs,
MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF) . . . . . . . . . .37
Regarding DivX discs,
MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Selecting file type to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Playing DivX discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Playing MP3 discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Useful functions during still picture play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using on-screen menus/Status message. . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using on-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating, editing and playing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Creating playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Editing and playing playlists/chapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Playlist operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Album and picture operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Delete Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the DELETE Navigator to delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Deleting titles or pictures during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying using the copying list–Advanced Copy. . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Copying a finalized DVD-R, DVD-R DL,
DVD-RW (DVD-Video format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Copying MPEG2 moving pictures from an SD card . . . . . . . . . . 55
Copying still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Copying using the copying list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Copying all the still pictures on a card—Copy All Pictures . . . . . 57
Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Linked operations with the TV (Q Link) . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Providing a name for a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Deleting all titles and playlists—Delete all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Deleting all the contents of a disc or card—Format . . . . . . . . . . 61
Selecting the background style–Top Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first
–Auto-Play Select. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Enabling discs to be played on other equipment
–Finalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Creating Top Menu–Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
FUNCTIONS window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
TV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Manual Clock Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
Getting started
Recording
Playing back
Editing
Copying
Convenient functions
Reference
EH55.book Page 3 Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:58 PM