Contents
01 Before you start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . 9 About the internal hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
02 Connecting up
Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using other types of video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . 15 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . 16 Connecting to an AV amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 44 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 51 Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 52 Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 54 Initializing a
07 Copying and
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 One Touch Copy* (HDD to DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 One Touch copy* (DVD to HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Copying from HDD to DVD* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Copying from DVD to HDD* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Using disc
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04 Getting started
Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Using the
05 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Switching the audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
08 Editing
The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Disc Navigator menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Editing VR mode Original, Video mode and HDD content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Editing HDD groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Creating and editing a VR mode Play List . . . . . . . . . 77
09 Disc History
Using the Disc History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
10 The PhotoViewer
Playing a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
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