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LCD Display and On-Screen Content

On-Screen Content

In addition to E-E and playback screens, the monitor connected to the DVD recorder’s VIDEO LINE OUT terminal can display the
following.
●Status messages
●Event messages
●Alarm messages
●The Setup Menu (☞ Page 58)
●Recording-operation control screens: REC CONTROL panel (☞ Page 40)

Status Messages

The DVD recorder’s setting condition and operation status are indicated by status messages, and these messages are displayed
on E-E or playback screens.
The DISPLAY MENU screen can be used to indicate whether or not status messages are to be displayed.
MENU
DISPLAY ON
TITLE/CHAPTER/INDEX TITLE+CHAPTER
RECORDER MODE
TIME+DATE
ON
TIME/DATE
REMAIN ON
DATE STYLE MM/DD/YY
LCD TITLE+CHAPTER
DISPLAY MENU
000 min
04/05/04
11:20:00
TITLE 01 0:11:22
DVD-RW
CHAPTER
01 0:11:22
REC
FINALIZE
DISC
TITLE
DISPLAY MENU screen
To display status messages:
Set DISPLAY from the DISPLAY MENU screen to ON.
The various items of status information for display can be selected.
If DISPLAY is set to OFF, no status information will be displayed.
Status Messages
1
Data relevant to recording:
If the SET UP button is pressed
while in Recording mode, the
video encode quality and the
audio encoding format will be
displayed. If the SET UP button is
then pressed once again, this
information is removed from the
screen.
No. Item Description
1Operation Mode This area indicates the DVD recorder’s current mode of operation.
Use RECORDER MODE from the DISPLAY MENU screen to indicate whether or not
this is to be displayed.
NO DISC : The DVD recorder currently contains no disc.
EJECT : The current disc is being ejected.
STOP : Stop mode
REC : Recording mode
REC PAUSE : Recording Pause mode
PLAY:Playback mode
STL : Still mode
FWD >> : Fast-forward playback (low speed)
FWD >>> : Fast-forward playback (high speed)
REV << : Fast-reverse playback (low speed)
REV <<< : Fast-reverse playback (high speed)
SLOW FWD >>> : Slow-forward playback (high speed)
SLOW FWD >> : Slow-forward playback (low speed)
SLOW REV <<< : Slow-reverse playback (high speed)
SLOW REV << : Slow-reverse playback (low speed)
LOADING :A disc is being loaded.
RESTORE : Disc recovery in progress. (☞ Page 41)

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Title number / Chapter
number / Index number /
Counter
Date / Time
Remaining time
REC CONTROL panel
DISC STATUS /
Index display
Use TITLE/CHAPTER / INDEX from the DISPLAY MENU screen to indicate whether or
not this is to be displayed.
OFF : No information is displayed
TITLE+CHAPTER
:Title no., chapter no. and elapsed time of a title (hr: min: sec) are
displayed.
INDEX+TITLE : Index no. and elapsed time of a title (hr: min: sec) are displayed.
*When the PLAYBACK & 232C TYPE item on the SYSTEM MENU (1/2) screen is set
to VTR, the elapsed time and index no. will represent the total time and total number
respectively as accumulated from Title 1. (☞ Page 63)
Use TIME/DATE from the DISPLAY MENU screen to select the way in which the date
and time are displayed.
OFF :No information is displayed.
DATE : Only the date is displayed.
TIME : Only the time is displayed.
TIME+DATE: Both date and time are displayed.
●The date display style can be changed using DATE STYLE from the DISPLAY MENU
screen.
Recording mode: The date and time from the internal clock are displayed.
Playback mode : The date and time of disc recording are displayed.
Use REMAIN from the DISPLAY MENU screen to indicate whether or not this is to be
displayed.
Recording mode: The amount of video that can still be recorded on the current disc is
displayed (in minutes).
Playback mode : Not displayed
* Remaining time is to be used as a general guide, not as an exact figure.
Provided that a recordable disc has been inserted, this panel will be displayed whenever
REC CONTROL from the REMOTE menu screen is set to ON.
The REC CONTROL panel can be used to control recording operations. (☞ Page 43)
●This is displayed even when the DISPLAY item is set to OFF.
When a disc is inserted into the DVD recorder, one of the following disc status is displayed
on the monitor screen (Approximately 3 seconds)
DVD-R :The current disc is a non-finalized DVD-R.
DVD-RW :The current disc is a non-finalized DVD-RW.
DVD :The current disc is a finalized DVD-R or DVD-RW.
INVALID DISC: The current disc is neither DVD-R or DVD-RW.
(Displayed while being inserted.)
●The following will be displayed when index is recorded or erased. (3 seconds)
INDEX WRITE : Displayed when writing index. (This is not displayed if TITLE/
CHAPTER/INDEX item from the DISPLAY MENU screen is set to
INDEX+TITLE or LCD item is set to INDEX.)
INDEX ERASE : Displayed when erasing index.
This is not displayed if DISPLAY item from the DISPLAY MENU screen is set toOFF.