Panasonic MR-EH57 EN - Manual (Page 3)

3
RQT8896
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
Linked operations with the TV
(VIERA Link “HDAVI Control TM ”/Q Link) . . . . . . . . . . . 18
STEP 2 Channel reception settings and TV aspect
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
GUIDE Plus+ system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
GUIDE Plus+ data download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Editing programme lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Changing the settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Set up to match your television and remote control . . 24
To enjoy progressive video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Disc Insertion/Ejection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
To specify a time to stop recording—One Touch Recording . . . 28
Recording settings for High Speed Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the GUIDE Plus+ system to make timer recordings. . . . . 30
Operations in the GUIDE Plus+ system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using S
HOW V IEW number to make timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . 32
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 33
To release the unit from recording standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Relief Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
VPS/PDC function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Recording broadcasts from external equipment . . . . . 35
Making timer recordings on the television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Recording from digital/satellite receiver or decoder . . . . . . . . . . 35
Linked timer recordings with external equipment
(digital/satellite receiver) — EXT LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Playing recorded video contents/
Playing play-only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Playing DivX discs, MP3 discs and
still pictures (JPEG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Regarding DivX discs, MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG) . . . . 39
Selecting file type to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Playing DivX discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Playing MP3 discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Useful functions during still picture play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using on-screen menus/Status message. . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using on-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Creating, editing and playing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Creating playlists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Editing and playing playlists/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Playlist operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Editing still pictures [EH67] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Album and picture operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Delete Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the DELETE Navigator to delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Deleting titles or pictures during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Copying using the copying list–Advanced Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Copying a finalised DVD-R, DVD-R DL,
DVD-RW (DVD-Video format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Copying SD Video from an SD Card [EH67]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Copying still pictures [EH67] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Copying using the copying list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Copying all the still pictures on a card—Copy All Pictures . . . . . 59
Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Providing a name for a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Deleting all titles and playlists—Delete all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Deleting all the contents of a disc or card—Format . . . . . . . . . . 63
Selecting the background style–Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first
–Auto-Play Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Enabling discs to be played on other equipment–Finalise . . . . . 64
Creating Top Menu—Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
FUNCTION MENU window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
TV System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Manual Clock Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
Getting started
Recording
Playing back
Editing
Copying
Convenient functions
Reference
About descriptions in these operating instructions
≥These operating instructions are applicable to models
DMR-EH57 and DMR-EH67. Unless otherwise indicated,
illustrations in these operating instructions are of DMR-EH57.
[EH57] : indicates features applicable to DMR-EH57 only.
[EH67] : indicates features applicable to DMR-EH67 only.
≥Instructions/notes regarding SD Cards, SD drive or DVD-
Audio are applicable to the DMR-EH67 model only.
≥Pages to be referred to are indicated as “ ➡ {{”.
G
e
tting
st
a
rt
e
d
R
eco
rd
in
g
Pla
y
in
g ba
c
k
Edi
ting
Cop
y
ing
C
o
n
ven
ient
functi
ons
Re
fe
re
nc
e
EH57_67.book Page 3 Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:29 AM