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HDD and disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Important notes for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
HDD (Hard disk drive) handling care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Disc 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
HOWVIEW 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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
Delete Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the DELETE Navigator to delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Deleting titles 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 from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
HDD and disc management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Providing a name for a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Deleting all titles and playlists—Delete all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Deleting all the contents of a disc—Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Selecting the background style–Top Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first
–Auto-Play Select. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Enabling discs to be played on other equipment–Finalise . . . . . 60
Creating Top Menu—Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
FUNCTION MENU window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
TV System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Manual Clock Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Troubleshooting guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
Getting started
Recording
Playing back
Editing
Copying
Convenient functions
Reference
≥Pages to be referred to are indicated as “➡ {{” in these
operating instructions.
Getting
started
RecordingPlaying backEditingCopyingConvenient
functions
Reference
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