Table Of Contents; Accessories - Panasonic DMR-E500HS 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Connecting a LAN cable to this unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
STEP 2 Channel reception settings . . . . . . . . . . . 11
STEP 3 Set up to match your television
and remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
To enjoy progressive video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
STEP 4 Multi-channel speaker setting . . . . . . . . 14
STEP 5 Setting up the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
This unit's network setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
When more than one network compatible
Panasonic DVD recorder is on the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
HDD, disc and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Recording
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Recording modes and approximate recording times . . . . . . . . 23
Playing while you are recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Using G- ® system to make timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . 25
CODE
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Check, change or delete a programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Playing back
Playing recorded video contents/Playing play-
only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Operations during play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Editing operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Changing audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using menus to play MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Useful functions during still picture play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing MPEG4 titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Useful functions during MPEG4 title play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using on-screen menus and Status messages. . . . 36
On-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Editing
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating, editing and playing play lists . . . . . . . . 40
Creating play lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Editing and playing play lists/chapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Play list operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Picture and folder operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing MPEG4 titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
MPEG4 title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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
(EUR7721KT0)
use it with other equipment.
Transfer (Dubbing)
Transferring (dubbing) titles or play lists . . . . . . 45
One Touch Transfer (dubbing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Transferring (dubbing) using the transferring (dubbing) list . . . 46
Transferring (dubbing) a finalized DVD-R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Recording from a video cassette recorder . . . . . 49
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
DV automatic recording (DV AUTO REC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Transferring (dubbing) still pictures . . . . . . . . . . 50
Transferring (dubbing) using the transferring (dubbing) list . . . 50
Transferring (dubbing) all the still pictures on a card
-COPY ALL PICTURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Transferring (dubbing) MPEG4/MPEG2 titles . . . 52
One Touch Transfer (dubbing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Transferring (dubbing) using the transferring (dubbing) list . . . . . . 53
Network
Operating the DVD recorder by computer . . . . . 55
Playing back video titles recorded on
another DVD recorder's HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Convenient functions
FUNCTIONS window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Providing a disc with a name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Erasing all titles, play lists and MPEG4 titles-Erase all titles. . . . 58
Erasing all the contents of a disc or card-Format. . . . . . . . . . 59
Enabling DVD-R to be played on other equipment-Finalize . . . . 59
Changing the unit's settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Summary of settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Tuning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Clock settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
TV System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Reference
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Frequently asked questions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Maintenance/Disc and card handling . . . . . . . . . 75
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
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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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