The System Menu appears.
Adjusting the recording picture quality

You can adjust the picture quality of digitally broadcasts programmes by selecting a preset setting. You can also adjust the picture quality by changing detailed settings, and store up to three settings in the memory.

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Only progressive video signals for recording can be adjusted.

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1 Press SYSTEM MENU in stop mode.

2 Select “Picture Adjustment,” and press ENTER.

3 Select a preset setting, and press

ENTER.

“Tuner”: TV broadcasts

“VCR”: Video cassettes

“DTV”: Digital broadcasts “Memory1”/“Memory2”/“Memory3”: Your own settings. To create your own settings, see “To create your own setting” on page 59.

To check the detailed settings for the selected preset, press DISPLAY.

4 Press SYSTEM MENU to exit.
To create your own setting

1Select “Memory1,” “Memory2,” or “Memory3” in step 3.

2Select “Detailed Settings,” and press

ENTER.

The display for adjusting detailed settings appears.

3Select an item using M/m, and adjust settings using </,.

For details about each setting, see the explanation of the display.

“Prog. Motion”: Adjusts the progressive video signal when “Component Video Out” is set to “Progressive” (page 136). Select “Motion” for a picture, including subjects that move dynamically.

Select “Still” for a picture with little movement.

“Cinema”: Converts the progressive video signal to match the type of DVD software that you are watching when “Component Video Out” is set to “Progressive” (page 136).

Select “Auto” to detect the software type (Film-based or Video-based) automatically and select the appropriate conversion mode. Normally select this position.

Select “Off” to fix the conversion mode to the mode for Video-based software.

4Press SYSTEM MENU to exit.

The setting is automatically stored as the setting you selected in step 1.

Creating chapters in a title

The recorder can automatically divide a recording (a title) into chapters by inserting chapter marks. To select chapter mark intervals or disable this function, see “Auto Chapter (HDD/VR),” “Auto Chapter (Video),” or “Auto Chapter (DVD+R/+RW)” in the “Recording” setup (page 143).

When recording to the HDD, a DVD-R (VR mode) or a DVD-RW (VR mode), you can edit chapter marks (page 95).

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