Contents

01 Before you start

What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Putting the batteries in the

remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 About the internal hard disk drive . . . . . . 14 Symbols used in this manual . . . . . . . . . 15

02 Connecting up

Rear panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Using other types of video output . . . . . . 19 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting to an AV amplifier or

receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . 23 Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . 30

05 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . 35 Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Setting the picture quality/

recording time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . 37 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Simultaneous recording and playback (Chase Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Recording from an external

component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Automatic recording from a

satellite tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Initializing recordable DVD discs . . . . . . 51

06 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Using the Disc Navigator to browse

the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . 59 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . 62 Switching DVD and DivX soundtracks . . 63 Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Displaying disc information on-screen . . 64

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