Panasonic DMR-EX87, DMR-EX77 operating instructions Table of contents

Table of contents

Getting started

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

Viewing

Watching analogue and digital broadcasts . . . . . . . . . 23

Select the channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Digital channel information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Recording

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-CODEsystem 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 back

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

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

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

Convenient functions

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

Reference

Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover

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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