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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
VIERA Link “HDAVI Control
TM
” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Easy control only with VIERA remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
STEP
2
Channel reception settings and TV aspect
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
STEP
3
Set up to match your television
and remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
To enjoy progressive video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Watching analogue and digital broadcasts . . . . . . . . . 23
Select the channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Digital channel information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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 TV Guide system to make timer recordings
(Digital broadcast only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Operations in the TV Guide system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using G-
CODE system to make timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 32
To release the unit from recording standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Relief Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Regarding DivX discs, MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG). . . . 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 finalised DVD-R, DVD-R DL,
DVD-RW (DVD-Video format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Copying SD Video 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
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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—Finalise . . . . 62
Creating Top Menu—Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
FUNCTION MENU window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
TV System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Clock Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Troubleshooting guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
Getting started
Viewing
Recording
Playing back
Editing
Copying
Convenient functions
Reference
About descriptions in these operating instructions
≥These operating instructions are applicable to models
DMR-EX77 and DMR-EX87. Unless otherwise indicated,
illustrations in these operating instructions are of DMR-EX77.
[EX77] : indicates features applicable to DMR-EX77 only.
[EX87] : indicates features applicable to DMR-EX87 only.
≥Pages to be referred to are indicated as “➡ {{”.
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