User manual PANASONIC NV-VZ15

[. . . ] To prevent risk of electric shock or fire hazard due to overheating, ensure that curtains and any other materials do not obstruct the ventilation vents. Do not obstruct the unit's ventilation openings with newspapers, tablecloths, curtains, and similar items. Do not place sources of naked flames, such as lighted candles, on the unit. Dispose of batteries in an environmentally friendly manner. [. . . ] If video reception has been selected, the VCR display will indicate VCR. VCR display [EXT LINK2] To control external recording with some Satellite Receiver (Videosignal). [EXT LINK1] For a Digital Receiver which transmits a special control signal for recordings, for example the F. U. N. [EXT] To connect an external equipment (e. g. TV), the EXT LINK button on the VCR is not activated. [DECODER] To connect an external decoder External source on AV3 Connect your external source (for example: Video Camcorder) to the front input. To select A3 press |INPUT SELECT AV| repeatedly. The sound will be recorded on the HiFi audio tracks and the mono audio track. To record only mono use L-audio input. Video Audio LR RQTD0035-A 11 Connecting External Equipment Connecting with Audio / Video cable Connect the Audio / Video cable (white=L, red=R, yellow=video) according to the colours / markings of the terminals. VCR / DVD Connecting with S-VIDEO lead The S-VIDEO terminal achieves a more vivid picture than the VIDEO OUT terminal (only DVD OUT). VCR / DVD White = Audio L Red = Audio R S Video lead Yellow = Video Home Theatre or TV set (not supplied) (not supplied) Stereo Audio lead (not supplied) (not supplied) TV Audio / Video cable (not supplied) White = Audio L Red = Audio R 21 pin scart lead (not supplied) If your TV is supporting RGB, then connect a 21 pin scart lead with AV1 (TV) to reach the best picture quality for DVD playback, For RGB setting see page 18. Analogue recording: You can record to a Mini Disc (MD) or audio cassette or connect to a Dolby Pro Logic amplifier. You can choose the DVD picture by changing the TV channel. Note: Do not connect the unit through another video cassette recorder. Connect directly to the TV, otherwise the picture may not be displayed correctly due to the copy guard. Connecting with Optical digital audio lead VCR / DVD Connecting an Active subwoofer You can enjoy more powerful bass by connecting an active subwoofer. Note: This may not work with some discs. Pan&Scan If you have a regular television (4:3 format) and wish to view 16:9 software in the Pan&Scan style, (if the disc supports this format). Expands the picture to fill the screen from top to bottom without distortion. However, the edges of the picture are cut off. Letterbox If you have a regular television (4:3 format) and wish to view 16:9 software in the Letterbox style. The whole picture is displayed, but black bands appear top and bottom of the screen. Do you have a unit connected to the OPTICAL output?No Yes Does the unit connected have a built-in DTS decoder?No Yes Does the unit connected have a built-in Dolby Digital decoder?No Yes Does the unit connected have a built-in MPEG decoder?No Yes Would you like to set a child lock password now?No Yes OPTICAL (optical output) If you have connected the player with an Optical digital audio lead to a digital amplifier or an amplifier with a built-in decoder to the OPTICAL output, select [Yes]. If you have selected [No] above, the next setting is [Child lock password] DTS (Digital Theater Systems) Method of coding multi channel audio signals. Select [Yes] when you connect the player to a unit with built-in DTS decoder. Dolby Digital Method of coding and compression of more channel audio signals, developed by Dolby Laboratories. [. . . ] The picture shown on the television is not normal Go to the VIDEO menu in the SETUP screen and change [TV Aspect] to suit your TV. Ensure that the unit is connected directly to the television and is not connected through a video cassette recorder. Ensure the [AV1 Output (Scart)] selection is correct for the TV input. RQTD0035-A Troubleshooting Adjusting the VCR Playback picture If the picture is distorted with noise bars, press the TRACKING / V-LOCK button in the (+) or (-) direction during Playback, Still Playback or Slow Playback. Noise bars on the TV picture Language codes Abkhazian 6566 Afar 6565 Afrikaans 6570 Albanian 8381 Ameharic 6577 Arabic 6582 Armenian 7289 Assamese 6583 Aymara 6588 Azerbaijani 6590 Bashkir 6665 Basque 6985 Bengali 6678 Bhutani 6890 Bihari 6672 Breton 6682 Bulgarian 6671 Burmese 7789 Byelorussian6669 Cambodian 7577 Catalan 6765 Chinese 9072 Corsican 6779 Croatian 7282 Czech 6783 Danish 6865 Dutch 7876 English 6978 Esperanto 6979 Estonia 6984 Faroese 7079 Fiji Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Greenlandic Guarani Gujarati Hausa Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Kashmiri Kazakh Kirghiz Korean Kurdish Laotian Latin Latvian 7074 7073 7082 7089 7176 7565 6869 6976 7576 7178 7185 7265 7387 7273 7285 7383 7378 7365 7165 7384 7465 7487 7578 7583 7575 7589 7579 7585 7679 7665 7686 Lingala 7678 Lithunian 7684 Macedonian 7775 Malagasy 7771 Malay 7783 Malayalam 7776 Maltese 7784 Maori 7773 Marathi 7782 Moldavian 7779 Mongolian 7778 Nauru 7865 Nepali 7869 Norwegian 7879 Oriya 7982 Pashto 8083 Persian 7065 Polish 8076 Portuguese 8084 Punjabi 8065 Quechua 8185 Rhaeto-Rom. 8277 Romanian 8279 Russian 8285 Samoan 8377 Sanskrit 8365 Scots Gaelic7168 Serbian 8382 Serbo-Croat. 8372 Shona 8378 Sindhi 8368 Singhalese Slovac Slovenian Somali Spanish Sundanese Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tajik Tamil Tatar Telugo Thai Tibetan Tigrinya Tonga Turkish Turkmen Twi Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Volapük Welsh Wolof Xhosa Yiddish Yoruba Zulu 8373 8375 8376 8379 6983 8385 8387 8386 8476 8471 8465 8484 8469 8472 6679 8473 8479 8482 8475 8487 8575 8582 8590 8673 8679 6789 8779 8872 7473 8979 9085 For automatic adjustment, press (+) and (-) at the same time. The tracking cannot be adjusted on certain cassettes. [. . . ]