Convenient functions

DVD

 

 

Underlined items are the factory default settings.

Display / Status Messages

Choose whether to show status messages automatically or not. [Automatic] [Off]

On-screen Language

Choose the language for these menus and the on-screen messages. [English] [Español] [Français]

Blue Background

Select whether to show the blue background, normally shown when TV reception is poor.

[On] [Off]

Front Display

Changes the brightness of the unit’s display. [Bright] [Dim] [Automatic]

Automatic The display turns dark during play, and reappears momentarily if a button is pressed. When the unit is turned off, the unit’s display disappears. While using this mode the standby power consumption can be reduced.

TV Screen TV Type (l 19)

Choose the setting to suit your TV and preference.

[Aspect 4:3 & 480i]

[Aspect 4:3 & 480p]

[Aspect 16:9 & 480i]

[Aspect 16:9 & 480p]

4:3 TV Settings for DVD-Video

You can select how to display the image on the TV when you watch 16:9 images (DVD-Video) on a 4:3 standard aspect TV. (l 58)

[Pan and Scan (Stretch to fit)] [Letterbox (Shrink to fit)]

Pan and Scan

Video recorded for a widescreen is played with

(Stretch to fit)

the sides cut off if Pan & Scan was specified.

 

If 16:9 software prohibits Pan & Scan, the

 

image will appear in the letterbox style (with

 

black bands above and below the picture)

 

despite the setting here.

Letterbox

Video recorded for a widescreen is played in

(Shrink to fit)

the letterbox style.

4:3 TV Settings for DVD-RAM

You can select how to display the image on the TV when you watch 16:9 images (DVD-RAM) on a 4:3 standard aspect TV. (l 58)

[4:3] [Pan and Scan (Stretch to fit)] [Letterbox (Shrink to fit)]

4:3

 

Titles are played as recorded.

 

 

 

Pan and Scan

 

Video recorded for a widescreen is played with

(Stretch to fit)

 

the sides cut off.

 

 

 

Letterbox

 

Video recorded for a widescreen is played in

(Shrink to fit)

 

the letterbox style.

 

 

 

VHS

(l 52)

TAPE SELECT

JET SEARCH

 

 

Language code list

Abkhazian:

6566

Chinese:

9072

Hausa:

7265

Lithuanian:

7684

Romanian:

8279

Telugu:

8469

Afar:

6565

Corsican:

6779

Hebrew:

7387

Macedonian:

7775

Russian:

8285

Thai:

8472

Afrikaans:

6570

Croatian:

7282

Hindi:

7273

Malagasy:

7771

Samoan:

8377

Tibetan:

6679

Albanian:

8381

Czech:

6783

Hungarian:

7285

Malay:

7783

Sanskrit:

8365

Tigrinya:

8473

Ameharic:

6577

Danish:

6865

Icelandic:

7383

Malayalam:

7776

Scots Gaelic:

7168

Tonga:

8479

Arabic:

6582

Dutch:

7876

Indonesian:

7378

Maltese:

7784

Serbian:

8382

Turkish:

8482

Armenian:

7289

English:

6978

Interlingua:

7365

Maori:

7773

Serbo-Croatian:

8372

Turkmen:

8475

Assamese:

6583

Esperanto:

6979

Irish:

7165

Marathi:

7782

Shona:

8378

Twi:

8487

Aymara:

6589

Estonian:

6984

Italian:

7384

Moldavian:

7779

Sindhi:

8368

Ukrainian:

8575

Azerbaijani:

6590

Faroese:

7079

Japanese:

7465

Mongolian:

7778

Singhalese:

8373

Urdu:

8582

Bashkir:

6665

Fiji:

7074

Javanese:

7487

Nauru:

7865

Slovak:

8375

Uzbek:

8590

Basque:

6985

Finnish:

7073

Kannada:

7578

Nepali:

7869

Slovenian:

8376

Vietnamese:

8673

Bengali, Bangla:

6678

French:

7082

Kashmiri:

7583

Norwegian:

7879

Somali:

8379

Volapük:

8679

Bhutani:

6890

Frisian:

7089

Kazakh:

7575

Oriya:

7982

Spanish:

6983

Welsh:

6789

Bihari:

6672

Galician:

7176

Kirghiz:

7589

Pashto, Pushto:

8083

Sundanese:

8385

Wolof:

8779

Breton:

6682

Georgian:

7565

Korean:

7579

Persian:

7065

Swahili:

8387

Xhosa:

8872

Bulgarian:

6671

German:

6869

Kurdish:

7585

Polish:

8076

Swedish:

8386

Yiddish:

7473

Burmese:

7789

Greek:

6976

Laotian:

7679

Portuguese:

8084

Tagalog:

8476

Yoruba:

8979

Byelorussian:

6669

Greenlandic:

7576

Latin:

7665

Punjabi:

8065

Tajik:

8471

Zulu:

9085

Cambodian:

7577

Guarani:

7178

Latvian, Lettish:

7686

Quechua:

8185

Tamil:

8465

 

 

Catalan:

6765

Gujarati:

7185

Lingala:

7678

Rhaeto-Romance: 8277

Tatar:

8484

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Panasonic DMR-ES40V Display / Status Messages, On-screen Language, Blue Background, Front Display, TV Screen TV Type l

DMR-ES40V specifications

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