Recording From An External Device; Recording From A Vcr Or A Set Top Box Equipped With A Hard Drive, Etc; Input Select - Panasonic DMR-EA18K Operating Instructions Manual

Recording from an External Device

Recording from a VCR or a Set top box
equipped with a Hard Drive, etc.
Connect cables while the power to both the unit and
the external device is off.
Front of the unit
You can get a
sharper, clearer
picture by
connecting with
an S Video
cable instead of
the yellow video
cable.
S Video cable
RAM -R -R DL -RW(V) +R +R DL +RW
Preparation:
• Turn on the unit and connected equipment.
• RAM If the disc is protected, release protection
(➔ 40).
• When recording multilingual broadcasts (➔ 17)
Insert a disc.
to select the recording
mode (➔ 18).
e , r to select "IN1" or "IN2", then
– If a program is recorded from a set top box
equipped with a Hard Drive, etc., connected
to IN1 on the rear, then select "IN1".
– Front Panel inputs are IN2.
Yellow White Red
Audio/Video
cable

Input Select

1 IN1
2 IN2
3 DV
OK
Start play on the external device.
to start recording the
program from the external device.
Tips
• If the external equipment only has a single audio output connect it
to the L/MONO (white) IN2 terminal.
To skip unwanted parts
Press [ h PAUSE] to pause recording. (Press again to restart
recording.)
To stop recording
Press [ g STOP].
Notes
If video is copied from another piece of equipment to this unit, then
the video quality will be degraded.
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