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Contents

01 Before you start

Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What’s in the box
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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
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

02 Connecting up

Rear panel connections
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Front panel connections
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Extra features for use with compatible TVs
. . . . . . . . 13
Easy connections
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using other types of audio/video output
. . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting to a cable box, satellite receiver or
digital terrestrial receiver
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting an external decoder box (1)
. . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting an external decoder box (2)
. . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting to an AV amplifier/receiver
. . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting using HDMI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
About HDMI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting other AV sources
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Plugging in
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

03 Controls and displays

Front panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Display
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Remote control
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting up the GUIDE Plus+ system
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and
recording
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Making your first recording
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the built-in TV tuner
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Basic playback
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the Home Menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Displaying disc information on-screen
. . . . . . . . . . . 37

05 Using the GUIDE Plus+™ electronic

program guide

The GUIDE Plus+ System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using GUIDE Plus+
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Areas
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
GUIDE Plus+ FAQ and troubleshooting
. . . . . . . . . . 49

06 Playback

Introduction
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Navigating discs and the HDD
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Scanning discs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Playing in slow motion
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Frame advance/frame reverse
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Play Mode menu
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Displaying and switching subtitles
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching DVD soundtracks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching audio channels
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching camera angles
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

07 Recording

About DVD recording
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
About HDD recording
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Recording time and picture quality
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Restrictions on video recording
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Setting the picture quality/recording time
. . . . . . . . 61
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 67
Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 69
Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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