Helpful hin ts – Panasonic AG-VP300P User Manual
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Helpful Hin
ts
Before Requesting Service (continued)
Disc play
Editing
Play doesn’t start (or stops
immediately) when you press
[
1] (PLAY).
≥Condensation has formed: Wait 1 to 2 hours for it to evaporate.
≥This unit cannot play discs other than the ones listed in these operating instructions.
≥This unit cannot play DVD-Video with a region number other than “1”, “ALL” or multiple
region numbers including “1”.
≥The disc may be dirty and may require cleaning.
≥Ensure that the disc is installed with the label of the side to be played facing upwards.
≥Check that the DVD-RAM has something recorded on it.
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No menu play.
≥This function depends on software availability.
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No subtitles.
≥This function depends on software availability.
≥Subtitles are cleared from the television. Display the subtitles.
≥Subtitles position is wrong. Adjust the position.
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The position of the subtitles is
incorrect.
≥Change the position of the subtitles with “Subtitle Position” in the on-screen menu icon.
Soundtrack and/or subtitle
language is not the one selected
with the SETUP menus.
≥This function depends on software availability.
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Cannot change angle.
≥This function depends on software availability. Even if a disc has a number of angles
recorded, these angles may be recorded for specific scenes only.
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Cannot add markers.
≥You cannot add markers while playing a play list or if the disc’s play time doesn’t appear on
the unit’s display.
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There are already markers on a
disc.
[RAM[
≥The unit reads and displays the markers added with a DVD recorder. You can clear them
but reappear when you switch the unit to standby, change the source, or open the disc tray.
Marker numbers I added are
different when I call them up.
[RAM[
≥The unit numbers markers by time so they change when you add and delete them.
Cannot select random or
program play.
≥You cannot select random or program play with some DVD-Video.
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Folders deeper than the eighth
layer on a data CD are not
displayed correctly.
≥Folders deeper than the eighth layer are displayed as the eighth layer.
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You have forgotten your ratings
password.
Reset all the settings to Factory
Preset.
≥While stopped and “DVD” is the source, press and hold [REW6] (VCR), [PLAY1]
(DVD) and [
<DVD OPEN/CLOSE] on the unit for about 3 seconds until “Initialized”
disappears from the television. Turn the unit off and on again.
All settings will return to the default values.
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The progressive out indicator
does not light.
≥Go to “Video” in the SET UP menus, and select “Enable” in “Progressive Out
(Component)”.
Black bands appear in the
recording.
≥Move the other equipment away from the television as it may be picking up interference.
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Recording video or audio from
external equipment is not
possible.
≥The connections were done incorrectly.
Check the connections to the other equipment.
≥The external input channel “A1” or “A2”, to which the player is connected is not selected.
Press [CH]
IJ to select “A1” or “A2”.
A video was dubbed, but the
video is distorted or the colors
are abnormal.
≥Copy-protected material was dubbed.
Copy-protected materials cannot be recorded normally.
Most commercially available videotapes and DVD discs (including rental soft tapes/DVDs)
are copy-protected so that illegal dubbing is impossible.
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The audio level on the DVD
section is not corresponding to
that on the VCR after editing.
≥Some discs may reproduce different audio levels.
If the audio in particular parts, such as speech, is set to a low or high level, it may be
recorded on a video cassette at a high or low level, respectively.
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