Table Of Contents - Panasonic Diga DMR-EX78 Operating Instructions Manual

Table of contents

Getting started
Included accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The remote control information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
HDD (Hard disk drive) handling care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Unit care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Quick Start Guide
Control reference guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
STEP 1 Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
STEP 2 Channel reception settings and
TV aspect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
HDD and disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
USB memory and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Regarding DivX files, MP3 files and still pictures (JPEG) . . . . . . . 13
Media handling (Disc/USB memory/SD card) . . . . . . . 14
Basic operations
Watching analogue and digital broadcasts . . . . . . . . . 15
Playing recorded video contents
/Playing play-only discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Deleting titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Advanced operations
Important notes for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Advanced recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Recording modes and approximate recording times . . . . . . . . . 21
When the format confirmation screen is displayed. . . . . . . . . . . 21
When removing a recorded disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Advanced timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using G- system to make timer recordings
CODE
(Analogue broadcast only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 25
To release the unit from recording standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Relief Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Operations in the TV Guide system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Advanced playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Operation during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Selecting recorded programmes (titles) to play
-Direct Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Switching the Direct Navigator appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
To sort the titles for easy searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
To play grouped titles [HDD] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
To edit the group of titles [HDD]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Playing DivX, MP3 and still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Showing the menu screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Playing DivX video contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Playing MP3 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Useful functions during still picture play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To play music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To play music recorded on HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Useful functions during music play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Convenient functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
FUNCTION MENU window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
To pause the TV programme you are watching
-Pause Live TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Linked operations with the TV
(VIERA Link "HDAVI Control
Easy control only with VIERA remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
TM ") . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Editing
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Creating, editing and playing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Editing still pictures and music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Copying
Copying titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Copying using the copying list-Advanced Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Copying a finalised DVD-R, DVD-R DL,
DVD-RW (DVD-Video format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Copying SD Video from an SD card [EX88] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Copying SD Video from a video equipment [EX88] . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Copying still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying all the still pictures on the USB memory
-Copy All Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying new still pictures on the SD card
-Copy New Pictures [EX88] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying using the copying list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying music to HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
About the Gracenote ® Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying music from a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying music from a USB memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
To update the Gracenote ® Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Setting menus
Using on-screen menus/Status message. . . . . . . . . . . 54
HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Providing a name for a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Deleting all titles and playlists-Delete all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Deleting all the contents-Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Selecting the background style-Top Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first
-Auto-Play Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Enabling discs to be played on other equipment-Finalise . . . . 58
Creating Top Menu-Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Changing the unit's settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Television operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Reference
Additional connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Connecting a television with S VIDEO terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Connecting a television with COMPONENT VIDEO terminals . . . . . . . 68
Connecting an amplifier with a digital input terminal . . . . . . . . . . 69
Connecting a stereo amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Connecting with an HDMI compatible television and receiver . . . . . . . 69
Connecting a television and VCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
About descriptions in these operating instructions
The illustrations in these Operating Instructions show images of
DMR-EX78 unless otherwise indicated.
[EX88] : indicates features applicable to DMR-EX88 only.
[EX78] : indicates features applicable to DMR-EX78 only.
≥Instructions/notes regarding SD cards and SD drive are
applicable to the DMR-EX88 model only.
≥Pages to be referred to are indicated as "➡ ±±".
RQT9088
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