Table Of Contents; Accessories - Panasonic DMR-E65 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
STEP 2 Channel reception settings . . . . . . . . . . . 10
STEP 3 Set up to match your television
and remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
To enjoy progressive video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Disc and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Recording
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Recording modes and approximate recording times . . . . . . . . 17
Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Direct TV Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Recording from satellite/digital receiver or decoder. . . . . . . . . 18
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using S V number to make timer recordings. . . . . . . . . 19
HOW IEW
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Linked timer recordings with external equipment (EXT LINK) . . 21
Playing back
Playing recorded video contents/Playing play-
only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Operations during play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Editing operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Changing audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using menus to play MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Useful functions during still picture play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using on-screen menus and Status messages. . 28
On-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Editing
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Creating, editing and playing play lists . . . . . . . . 32
Creating play lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Editing and playing play lists/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Play list operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Picture and folder operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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
(EUR7721KC0)
use it with other equipment.
Transfer (Dubbing)
Recording from a video cassette recorder . . . . . 35
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
DV automatic recording (DV AUTO REC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Transferring (dubbing) still pictures . . . . . . . . . . 36
Transferring (dubbing) using the transferring (dubbing) list . . . 36
Transferring (dubbing) all the still pictures of a card
onto a DVD-RAM-COPY ALL PICTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Convenient functions
FUNCTIONS window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Providing a disc with a name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Erasing all titles and play lists-Erase all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Erasing all the contents of a disc or card-Format. . . . . . . . . . 39
Enabling DVD-R to be played on other equipment-Finalize . . 39
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Changing the unit's settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Summary of settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
TV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Clock settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Reference
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Frequently asked questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Maintenance/Disc and card handling . . . . . . . . . 57
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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1 RF coaxial cable 2 Batteries
for remote control
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1 Audio/video cable
RQT7542
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