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RQT8203
T able of contents
Useful featu res . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
HDD (Hard disk driv e) handling care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Disc and c ard handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Unit care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Inserting, Rem oving the SD c ard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Note to o wners of progr essive co mpatible
PAL system te levisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Using DVD-R, DVD-RW and +R on this uni t . . . . . . . . . . 7
Included a ccessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The remote control info rmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
HDD, disc and card information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Control refe rence guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Remote contr ol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Main unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
The unit’s display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
STEP 1
Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
STEP
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Channel recept ion settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Set up to ma tch your telev ision and rem ote control . . 20
To enjoy progr essive vi deo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Recording tel evision program mes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Rec for High Speed dubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Flexible Recor ding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Playing while you a re recor ding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Direct TV Record ing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Recording from digit al/satellite receiver or decoder . . . . . . . . . 25
Timer recordin g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using the GUIDE Plus+ system to make timer recordings . . . 26
Using S
HOWV IE W number to make ti mer recordin gs . . . . . . . . 26
Manually program ming timer reco rdings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Check, c hange or delete a program me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Making tim er recordings on the televisi on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Linked timer recor dings with external equipment
(digital/satellit e receiver)—EXT LINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Playing reco rded video c ontents/
Playing play -only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Operation s during play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Simple editing operations during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing audio during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using menu s to play MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Playing sti ll pictures (JPEG /TIFF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Useful functions during s till picture play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using on-screen menus/FUNCTIONS window and Status
message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using on-screen menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
FUNCTIONS window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Status mes sages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Editing titles /chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Editing titles/chapters and playing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Title operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Creating, editing and pl aying playli sts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Creat ing playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Editing and playing playlists/chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Playlist operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Editing still p ictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2
Picture and folde r operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Transferring (du bbing) titles or playlists . . . . . . . . . . . 43
One Touch Tr ansfer (dubbing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Transferring (dubbing) us ing the transferring (dubbing) list . . . 44
Transferring (dubbing) a finalized DVD-R, DVD-RW (DVD-Video
format) and +R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Recording from a video cas sette recorder . . . . . . . . . . 4 7
Manual recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
DV automat ic recording (DV AUTO REC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Transferring (du bbing) still pic tures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Transferring (dubbing) us ing the transferring (dubbing) list . . . 48
Transferring (dubbing) all the still pictures on a card—COPY ALL
PICTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
HDD, disc and c ard management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Settin g the prote ction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Provi ding a name for a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Erasing all titles and playlist s—Erase all titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Erasing all the contents of a disc or card—Form at . . . . . . . . . . 51
Enabling discs to be played on other equipm ent . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3
Child Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Changing the unit’s setting s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4
Common procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Summar y of settin gs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Tunin g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Clock sett ings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
TV Syste m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Message s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2
Frequent ly asked questi ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3
Troubleshooti ng guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Specificatio ns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 0
Safety preca utions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back cover
This D VD Recorder re cords high quality pictures to rapid random access capable HDD (Hard disk driv e) and D VD-RAM. This has resulted in
many ne w features t hat outperform older tape f orm ats. T he follo wing inf or mation summarizes a f ew of t hese features .
Instant r ecordin g
Y ou no longer need to search for empty disc space. B y pressing the
recording button, the unit finds av ailab le recording space and begins
recording right awa y . There is no need to worr y about ov erwr iting
already recorded content.
1 Sec. Q uick Sta r t f or Recor ding & EPG Displa y
F rom the power on, recording star ts in about 1 second
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after the
REC button is pressed. If the GUIDE button is pressed while the uni t
is off, the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) displa ys in less than 1
second. (Quick Star t Mode)
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Only when recording to the HDD or D VD -RAM
HDD recording
Y ou can keep on recording y our fa vorite progr ammes to an inter nal
HDD that is able to record up to 355 hours [EP (8 Hours) mode].
Y ou can also high speed transf er (dub) your fa v orit e programmes to
D VD-RAM, D VD-R, D V D-RW (D V D-Video format) or +R an d create a
backup disc.
SD card slot, D V in put terminal
≥The SD card slot of this unit lets you play digital camera
photographs and transfer (dub) them from a card to DV D-RAM for
easy storage without using a computer.
≥The D V automatic recording function of this unit lets you easily
transf er (dub) a video to the H DD by connecting only a single D V
cabl e.
Instant pla y
There is no need to rewi nd or search forw ard. Direct Navigator
guides you to the beginning of the recorded video i mmed iately .
Chasing pla ybac k
There is no need to w ait until recording is complete. Without
stopping recording, you can play the video c urrently being recor ded
from its beginning.
Simul taneous Re cording and Pla ybac k
While recording, you can play another video pr ogramme that was
recorded previously .
Time Slip
During play , and also while recording, you can jump to the scene you
wish to view by specifying the skip time.
The GUIDE Plus + system
The GUIDE Plus+ system provides programme information from the
host station displa yed on the t elevision lik e a TV programme
magazine. Setting up to record a broadcast is easy too . Simply
select the desired programme from the di splayed list. Y ou can also
search for desired prog rammes by displa ying only the progr ammes
in a cer tain cat egory .
≥This ser vice may not be a vailab le in some areas.
Getting started
Recording
Pla ying bac k
Editing
T ransferring (Dubbing)
Con venient functions
Reference
Useful fe atures
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T able o f conten ts / Usefu l features
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