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RQT9079
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Included accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The remote control information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
HDD (Hard disk drive) handling care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Unit care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Control reference guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
STEP 1 Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
STEP 2 Channel reception settings and
TV aspect settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
HDD and disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
USB memory and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Regarding DivX files, MP3 files and still pictures (JPEG) . . 14
Media handling (Disc/USB memory/SD card) . . . . . . . 15
Watching analogue and digital broadcasts . . . . . . . . . 16
To show subtitle (Digital broadcast only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
To select a language for DVB multi audio or
DVB subtitle (Digital broadcast only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Playing recorded video contents/Playing play-only discs . . 17
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
When recording digital broadcast with subtitle or
multiple audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Deleting titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Important notes for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Advanced recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Recording modes and approximate recording times . . . . . . . . . 22
When the format confirmation screen is displayed. . . . . . . . . . . 22
When removing a recorded disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Recording broadcasts from external equipment . . . . . 24
Making timer recordings on the television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Recording from digital satellite receiver or analogue decoder . . 24
Linked timer recordings with external equipment
(digital satellite receiver) — EXT LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Advanced timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using S
HOW
V
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number to make timer recordings
(Analogue broadcast only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Series recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 27
To release the unit from recording standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Relief Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Check, change or delete a programme, or resolve overlapping. . . . . . 28
If the “Overlapped Timer Recording” screen appears . . . . . . . . 28
Language for digital broadcast with multi-audio or multi-subtitle . . . . . 28
Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Operations in the TV Guide system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
TV Guide data download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Advanced playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Operation during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Selecting recorded programmes (titles) to play
—Direct Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Switching the Direct Navigator appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
To sort the titles for easy searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
To play grouped titles
[HDD]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
To edit the group of titles
[HDD]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing DivX, MP3 and still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Showing the menu screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playing DivX video contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Playing MP3 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Useful functions during still picture play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Playing music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
To play music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
To play music recorded on HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Useful functions during music play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Convenient functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
FUNCTION MENU window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
To pause the TV programme you are watching—Pause Live TV . . . . 37
Linked operations with the TV (VIERA Link
“HDAVI Control
TM
”/Q Link) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Easy control only with VIERA remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Creating, editing and playing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing still pictures and music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Copying titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Copying using the copying list–Advanced Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Copying a finalised DVD-R, DVD-R DL,
DVD-RW (DVD-Video format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying SD Video from an SD card
[EX88]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copying SD Video from a video equipment
[EX88]
. . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copying still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying all the still pictures on the USB memory
—Copy All Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying new still pictures on the SD card
—Copy New Pictures
[EX88]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying using the copying list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copying music to HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
About the Gracenote
®
Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Copying music from a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Copying music from a USB memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
To update the Gracenote
®
Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using on-screen menus/Status message. . . . . . . . . . . 56
HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Providing a name for a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Deleting all titles and playlists—Delete all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Deleting all the contents—Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Selecting the background style—Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first—Auto-Play Select . . . . 60
Enabling discs to be played on other equipment—Finalise . . . . 60
Creating Top Menu—Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Television operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Additional connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Connecting a television with AUDIO/VIDEO or
S VIDEO terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Connecting a VCR with AUDIO/VIDEO or S VIDEO terminals . . 69
Connecting a television with COMPONENT VIDEO terminals . . 69
Connecting an amplifier with a digital input terminal . . . . . . . . . . 70
Connecting a stereo amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Connecting with an HDMI compatible television and receiver . . 70
Connecting a television and VCR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Connecting a television and VCR, digital satellite receiver or
analogue decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
Getting started
Quick Start Guide
Basic operations
Advanced operations
Editing
Copying
Setting menus
Reference
About descriptions in these operating instructions
≥
These operating instructions are applicable to models DMR-
EX88 and DMR-EX78. The illustrations in these Operating
Instructions show images of the silver model of DMR-EX78 for
Germany 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 “
➡
±±
”.
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