Panasonic E50 manual Display, Connection

Changing the unit’s settings (continued)

≥Underlined items are the factory presets.

ªDisplay

On-Screen Messages

Choose whether to show on-screen messages automatically or not.

[Automatic] [Off]

Grey Background

Select whether to show the grey background, normally shown when television reception is poor.

[On] [Off]

Norm (4:3) TV Settings (DVD-Video)

You can select how to reflect the image on the TV, when you watch 16:9 images (DVD-Video) on 4:3 TV.

[Pan & Scan] [Letterbox]

Pan & Scan

Video recorded for a widescreen is played with the sides cut off if the pan & scan was specified by the producer of the disc. 16:9 software prohibited from being shown in the pan & scan style will appear in the letterbox style (with black bands above and below the picture) despite the setting here.

Channel Guide

[On] [Off]

On

The Channel Guide will appear for a few seconds each time the channel is changed with [X, W, CH] (18).

Off

The Channel Guide will not appear.

Letterbox

Video recorded for a widescreen is played in the letterbox style.

FL Display

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

ªConnection

TV Aspect (page 19)

Choose the setting to suit your television and preference. [Norm (4:3)] [Wide (16:9)]

TV System

[PAL] [NTSC]

PAL

Select when connecting to a PAL or Multi-system television. Select to record television programmes and PAL input from other equipment.

NTSC

Select when connecting to a NTSC television.

Select to record NTSC input from other equipment. Television programmes cannot be recorded properly.

≥To change the TV system (PAL/NTSC) setting:

While stopped, keep pressing [∫] (7) and [<, OPEN/CLOSE]

(39) on the main unit for 5 or more seconds.

≥If the playback picture on the TV screen from a Video CD isn’t shown correctly:

- When connecting to Multi-system TV, select “NTSC”. (After viewing the disc, return the setting to “PAL”.)

- When connecting to PAL TV, the lower part of the picture cannot be displayed correctly during the fast forward and rewind.

Norm (4:3) TV Settings (DVD-RAM)

You can select how to reflect the image on the TV, when you watch 16:9 images (DVD-RAM) on 4:3 TV.

[Norm (4:3)] [Pan & Scan] [Letterbox]

Norm (4:3)

Programmes played as recorded.

Pan & Scan

Video recorded for a widescreen is played with the sides cut off if the pan & scan format is specified at the time of recording.

Letterbox

Video recorded for a widescreen is played in the letterbox style.

AV1/AV2 Settings

(Press [ENTER] (10) to show the following settings. To return to the previous screen, press [RETURN] (23).)

AV1 Output

[Video] [S-Video] [RGB] (page 56)

AV2 Input

[Video] [S-Video] [RGB (PAL only)]

AV2 Connection

[NORMAL] [DECODER] [Ext Link 1] [Ext Link 2]

DECODER

When a decoder is connected.

Ext Link 1

When a digital receiver which transmits a special control signal recordings via the 21-pin Scart cable, for example the F.U.N. receiver (TU-DSF30/S3) is connected for the linked timer recordings.

Ext Link 2

When an external equipment with a timer function is connected for the linked timer recordings.

≥If you connect an other equipment with RGB output capability to the AV2 socket on this unit, the output signal of the equipment must be set to RGB when you have set “AV2 Input” to “RGB (PAL only)”.

≥This setting is fixed with “EXT” ifyou set “TV System” to “NTSC”.

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