Table Of Contents; Accessories - Panasonic DMR-E500H Operating Instructions Manual

Table of contents

Getting started
Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Useful features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Control reference guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
STEP 1 Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Connections for the Network function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Connecting a LAN cable to this unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
STEP 2 Channel reception settings . . . . . . . . . . . 12
STEP 3 Set up to match your television
and remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
To enjoy progressive video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
STEP 4 Multi-channel speaker setting . . . . . . . . 16
STEP 5 Setting up the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
This unit's network setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
When more than one network compatible
Panasonic DVD recorder is on the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
HDD, disc and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Recording
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Recording modes and approximate recording times . . . . . . . . 25
Playing while you are recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Direct TV Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Recording from satellite/digital receiver or decoder. . . . . . . . . 26
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using S V number to make timer recordings . . . . . . . . 27
HOW IEW
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Linked timer recordings with external equipment (EXT LINK) . . . . 29
Playing back
Playing recorded video contents/Playing play-
only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Operations during play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Editing operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using menus to play MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Useful functions during still picture play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Playing MPEG4 titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Useful functions during MPEG4 title play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using on-screen menus and Status messages . . . .38
On-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Editing
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Creating, editing and playing play lists . . . . . . . . 42
Creating play lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing and playing play lists/chapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Play list operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Picture and folder operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Editing MPEG4 titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
MPEG4 title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Accessories

Please check and identify the supplied accessories.
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1 Remote control 1 AC mains lead
≥For use with this unit only. Do not
(EUR7721KM0)
use it with other equipment.
Transfer (Dubbing)
Transferring (dubbing) titles or play lists . . . . . . 47
One Touch Transfer (dubbing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Transferring (dubbing) using the transferring (dubbing) list . . . 48
Transferring (dubbing) a finalized DVD-R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Recording from a video cassette recorder . . . . . 51
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
DV automatic recording (DV AUTO REC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Transferring (dubbing) still pictures . . . . . . . . . . 52
Transferring (dubbing) using the transferring (dubbing) list . . . 52
Transferring (dubbing) all the still pictures on a card-COPY ALL
PICTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Transferring (dubbing) MPEG4/MPEG2 titles . . . 54
One Touch Transfer (dubbing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Transferring (dubbing) using the transferring (dubbing) list . . . . . . . 55
Network
Operating the DVD recorder by computer . . . . . 57
Playing back video titles recorded on
another DVD recorder's HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Convenient functions
FUNCTIONS window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Providing a disc with a name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Erasing all titles, play lists and MPEG4 titles-Erase all titles. . . 60
Erasing all the contents of a disc or card-Format. . . . . . . . . . 61
Enabling DVD-R to be played on other equipment-Finalize . . . . . 61
Changing the unit's settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Tuning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
TV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Clock settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Reference
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Frequently asked questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Maintenance/Disc and card handling . . . . . . . . . 79
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
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1 RF coaxial cable 2 Batteries
for remote control
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1 Audio/video cable
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