Panasonic DMR-EX85 User Manual

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RQT8388

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

Connecting with an HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)

terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Control with HDMI (HDAVI Control

TM

) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

STEP 2

Channel reception settings and

TV aspect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

STEP 3

Set up to match your television

and remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

To enjoy progressive video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Watching television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Select the channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Digital channel information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Disc Insertion/Ejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
To specify a time to stop recording—One Touch Recording . . . 24
Recording settings for High Speed Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Using G-

CODE

system to make timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 28
To release the unit from recording standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Relief Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Playing recorded video contents/

Playing play-only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Playing DivX discs,

MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF) . . . . . . . . . .33

Regarding DivX discs,

MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Selecting file type to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Playing DivX discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Playing MP3 discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Useful functions during still picture play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Using on-screen menus/Status message. . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using on-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Creating, editing and playing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Creating playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing and playing playlists/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Playlist operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Album and picture operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Delete Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the DELETE Navigator to delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Deleting titles or pictures during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Copying titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Copying using the copying list–Advanced Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Copying a finalized DVD-R, DVD-R DL,

DVD-RW (DVD-Video format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Copying MPEG2 moving pictures from an SD card . . . . . . . . . . 51

Copying still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Copying using the copying list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying all the still pictures on a card—Copy All Pictures . . . . . 53

Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Providing a name for a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Deleting all titles and playlists—Delete all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Deleting all the contents of a disc or card—Format . . . . . . . . . . 56
Selecting the background style–Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first

–Auto-Play Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Enabling discs to be played on other equipment

–Finalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Creating Top Menu–Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
FUNCTIONS window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
TV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Clock Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover

Getting started

Viewing

Recording

Playing back

Editing

Copying

Convenient functions

Reference

EH65.book Page 3 Friday, September 1, 2006 9:46 AM

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