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VQT2J28
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
Easy access to various functions — FUNCTION MENU
Display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
STEP
1
Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
STEP
2
Channel reception settings and TV aspect
settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
TV Guide system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Settings of the TV Guide for Analogue broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . 11
TV Guide data download . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
HDD and disc information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
USB memory and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Regarding DivX files, Music files and still pictures
(JPEG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Media handling (Disc/USB memory/SD card) . . . . . . . .16
Basic operations
Watching Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Playing recorded video contents/Playing play-only
discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Recording television programmes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Deleting titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Advanced operations
Notes for recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Advanced recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Recording modes and approximate recording times . . . . . . . . . 23
When the format confirmation screen is displayed. . . . . . . . . . . 23
When removing a recorded disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Playing while you are recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Recording broadcasts from external equipment. . . . . .25
Making timer recordings on the television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Recording from digital satellite receiver or analogue decoder . . 25
Linked timer recordings with external equipment (digital satellite
receiver) — EXT LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Copying from a video cassette recorder . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
DV automatic recording (DV Auto Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Advanced timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Series recording (Digital broadcast only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using S
HOW
V
IEW
number to make timer recordings (Analogue
broadcast only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Manually programming timer recordings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Check, change or delete a programme, or resolve
overlapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
To cancel recording when recording has already begun . . . . . . 29
If the “Overlapped Timer Recording” screen appears . . . . . . . . 29
Language for digital broadcast with multi-audio or multi-subtitle
(Digital broadcast only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Relief Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Auto Renewal Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Notes on timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Selecting the programme from the desired programme type or
category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Searching for the programme in the TV Guide list . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Operations in the TV Guide system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Changing the Settings and Editing TV Guide for Analogue
broadcasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Advanced playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Operation during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Selecting recorded programmes (titles) to play—
DIRECT NAVIGATOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Switching the DIRECT NAVIGATOR appearance . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To sort the titles for easy searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To play grouped titles
[HDD]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
To edit the group of titles
[HDD]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Playing music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
To play music CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
To play music recorded on HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Useful functions during music play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Playing DivX, Music files and still pictures (JPEG) . . . .36
Showing the menu screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Playing DivX video contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Playing Music files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Playing still pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Start Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Useful functions during still picture play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Linked operations with the TV (VIERA Link “HDAVI
Control
TM
”/Q Link). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Easy control only with VIERA remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Convenient functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
FUNCTION MENU Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
To pause the TV programme you are watching—Pause Live
TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Editing
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Editing titles/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Creating, editing and playing Playlists (Video) . . . . . . 46
Editing still pictures and music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Creating, editing and playing Playlists (Picture) . . . . . 50
Copying
Copying titles or Playlists (Video). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Copy [Video (HDD to DVD)] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Copying using the copying list–Advanced Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Copying a finalised DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW (DVD-Video
format), +R and +R DL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Copying Video (MPEG2) from an SD card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Copying Video (MPEG2) from a video equipment . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Copying still pictures/Playlist (Picture) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Copying new still pictures on the SD card or USB memory
—Copy New Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Copying using the copying list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Copying still pictures on the USB memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Copying music to HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
About the Gracenote
®
Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Copying music from a CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Copying music from a USB memory or CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/
DVD-R DL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
To update the Gracenote
®
Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Setting menus
Using on-screen menus/Status message. . . . . . . . . . . 61
HDD, disc and card management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Setting the protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Deleting all titles and Playlists (Video)—Delete all titles. . . . . . . 63
Providing a name for a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Deleting all the contents—Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Selecting the background style—Top Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Selecting whether to show the Top Menu first—Auto-Play
Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Enabling discs to be played on other equipment—Finalise . . . . 64
Creating Top Menu—Create Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Changing the unit’s settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Common procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Other Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Television operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Reference
Additional connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Connecting a television with AUDIO/VIDEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Connecting a VCR with AUDIO/VIDEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Connecting an amplifier with a digital input terminal . . . . . . . . . . 73
Connecting a stereo amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Connecting a television and VCR, digital satellite receiver or
analogue decoder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Frequently asked questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Troubleshooting guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Back Cover
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