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 STEP 2 Channel reception settings and

TV aspect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 STEP 3 Set up to match your television

and remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

To enjoy progressive video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Recording

Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Disc Insertion/Ejection	21
To specify a time to stop recording—One Touch Recording . . .	22
Recording settings for High Speed Copy	22
Flexible Recording	23
Playing while you are recording	23

Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Using G-CODEsystem to make timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 26 To release the unit from recording standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Relief Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Playing back

Playing recorded video contents/

Playing play-only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Playing DivX discs,
MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF)	31
Regarding DivX discs,
MP3 discs and still pictures (JPEG/TIFF)	31
Selecting file type to play	32
Playing DivX discs	32
Playing MP3 discs	33
Playing still pictures	34
Useful functions during still picture play	35

Using on-screen menus/Status message. . . . . . . . . . . 36

Using on-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Editing

Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Creating, editing and playing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Creating playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Editing and playing playlists/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Playlist operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Album and picture operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Delete Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the DELETE Navigator to delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Deleting titles or pictures during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Copying

Copying titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Copying using the copying list–Advanced Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Copying a finalized DVD-R, DVD-R DL,

DVD-RW (DVD-Video format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Copying MPEG2 moving pictures from an SD card . . . . . . . . . . 49

Copying still pictures

Copying using the copying list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Copying all the still pictures on a card—Copy All Pictures . . . . . 51

Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Convenient functions

HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Providing a name for a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Deleting all titles and playlists—Delete all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Deleting all the contents of a disc or card—Format . . . . . . . . . . 54 Selecting the background style–Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first

–Auto-Play Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Enabling discs to be played on other equipment

–Finalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Creating Top Menu–Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 FUNCTIONS window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 TV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Clock Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Reference

Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover

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Philips DMR-EH55 operating instructions Table of contents

Models: DMR-EH55