Panasonic DMR-EH55S Operating Instructions Manual

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Contents

3RQT8365Table of contentsIMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2HDD, disc and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Important notes for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8HDD (Hard disk drive) handling care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9Disc and card handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Unit care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Inserting/Removing the SD card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11The remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Control reference guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12STEP 1 Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14Connecting with an HDMI(High Definition Multimedia Interface) terminal . . . . . . . . . . . 19Control with HDMI (HDAVI ControlTM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19STEP 2 Setting up the TV Guide On ScreenTMsystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20STEP 3 Downloading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22STEP 4 Set up to match your television and the unit’sremote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23Recording television programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24Recording television programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24To specify a time to stop recording—One Touch Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Selecting audio to record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Scheduled recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Using the TV Guide On ScreenTM system to make scheduledrecordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Manually programming scheduled recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Using VCR Plusi system to make scheduled recordings. . . . 29Check, change or delete a program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Utilizing the TV Guide On ScreenTM system . . . . . . . . .31Using the LISTINGS Service to set scheduled recording andscheduled reminder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32Using the SEARCH Service to search TV programs by genre,keyword, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Using SETUP Service to change the settingsof the TV Guide On Screen TM system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Using SCHEDULE Service to check, change or delete aprogram set for scheduled recording or scheduled remindermanually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Playing recorded video contents/Playing play-onlydiscs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Operations during play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Simple editing operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Playing DivX discs, MP3 discs and still pictures(JPEG/TIFF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39Selecting file type to play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Playing DivX discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Playing MP3 discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Useful functions during still picture play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Using on-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42Delete Navigator to delete titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43Deleting titles or pictures during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Creating, editing and playing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Creating playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Editing and playing playlists/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Playlist operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Album and picture operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Copying titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Copying using the copying list—Advanced Copy . . . . . . . . . . . 50Copying a finalized DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW (DVD-Videoformat), +R and +R DL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Copying MPEG2 moving pictures from an SD card . . . . . . . . . 52Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 53Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53DV camcorder recording (DV Camcorder Rec.) . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Copying still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Copying using the copying list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Copying all the still pictures on a card—Copy all Pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Setting the protection—Disc Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Providing a name for a disc—Disc Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Deleting all titles and playlists—Delete All Titles . . . . . . . . . . . 57Deleting all the contents of a disc or card—Format . . . . . . . . . 57Selecting the background style—Top Menu Style . . . . . . . . . . 58Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first—Playback will start with:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Enabling discs to be played on other equipment—Finalize . . . 58Creating Top Menu—Create DVD Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Summary of settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Changing the speaker setting to suit your speakers . . . . . . . . . 63Channel/Clock settings when TV Guide On ScreenTMsystem is not used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Auto channel/clock settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Channel captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65VCR Plusr Channel Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Product Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Limited Warranty (ONLY FOR U.S.A.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Limited Warranty (ONLY FOR CANADA) . . . . . . . . . . . 79Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BackcoverGetting startedRecordingPlaying backEditingCopyingConvenient functionsReferenceGuía de referencia rápida en español . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80(Spanish Quick Reference)Table of contents