
Contents
Introduction.............................4-9
SymbolUsedinthisManual................4
NotesonDiscs..........................4
RecordableandPlayableDiscs
PlayableDiscs..........................6
RegionalCode..........................6
Availabilityofcopyingormoving
Abouttheinternalharddiskdrive
Card
useable
on
this
unit
(RH199MH,RH200MHonly)................7
FrontPanel.............................8
RemoteControl.........................9
RemoteControlOperation.................9
HookupandSettings...................10-23
RearPanel............................10
ConnectingtotheAerial..................10
ConnectionstoYourTV..................11
HDMI
connection
(RH199MH,
ConnectingtoanAmplifier................13
Accessory
Audio/Video
(A/V)
UsingtheHomeMenu...................16
InitialSettings..........................16
GeneralOperation....................16
GeneralSettings.....................16-19
AutoProgramming...................16
ProgramEdit........................17
AutoClockSet/ManualClockSet
TVAspect/DisplayMode..............18
Progressive
AV2
Connection
Initialization.........................19
Scan
/
(RH188/RH199
Power
LanguageSettings......................19
AudioSettings.........................19
DolbyDigital/DTS/MPEG.
SamplingFrequency..................19
DRC(DynamicRangeControl).
Vocal..............................19
Lock(ParentalControl)Settings
Rating/SetPassword/AreaCode
DivXRegistrationCode...............20
RecordingSettings......................21
RecordModeSet/RecordAspect.
DV
Recording
Audio/TV
AutoChapter/AV2Recording.
DiscSettings........................21-22
DiscFormat........................21
Finalize/DiscLabel..................22
DiscProtect/PBC...................22
General
Explanation
of
On-Screen
Playback.............................24-34
GeneralPlaybackFeatures
PlayingaDivXMovieFile.................28
PlayinganAudioCDorMP3/WMAfile
with
Program
Playback
Audio
. . . . . . . . . . . .
feature
. . . . . . . . . . .
RH200MH
Connections
only)
Save
Mode
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . .
Recording
. . . . . . . . .
Display
. . . . . . . . . . . .
CD
and
. . . . . .
only)
.
. . . . . .
. . .
. . . . .
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
Audio
. . .
. . . . . .
.14-15
.24-27
MP3/WMAfile..........................30
ViewingaJPEGFile..................31-32
a
Editing
MP3/WMA,
JPEG,
Recording............................35-41
.5
.6
.7
AboutDVDrecording....................35
AboutHDDrecording....................35
Timeshift..............................36
BasicRecordingfromaTV................37
InstantTimerRecording..................37
TimerRecording........................38
Checking
Timer
Recording
RecordingfromanExternalInput
RecordingfromDVInput.................40
Simultaneous
Playback
recording
another
title
and
during
TimeSlip...........................41
Editing...............................42-49
Title
List
.12
and
Chapter
VR
HDD,
Mode:
AddingChapterMarkers.................43
List
Original
and
ChangingTitleThumbnails................43
MakingaNewPlaylist....................44
Additional
Adding
Title/Chapters
DeletinganOriginalorPlaylist
DeletingaPart.........................45
NamingaTitle.........................46
TimeSearch..........................46
Sort.................................47
the
.18
Undoing/Redoing
Last
CombiningTwoTitlesIntoOne
.18
.18
DivideOneTitlesIntoTwo................48
CombiningTwoChaptersIntoOne
MovingaPlaylistChapter.................49
HideaChapter/Title.....................49
ProtectaTitle..........................49
.19
Dubbing..............................50-52
.19
BeforeDubbing.........................50
DubbingfromHDDtoDVD...............51
.20
.20
DubbingfromDVDtoHDD................51
OneTouchCopy(HDDtoDVD).
OneTouchCopy(DVDtoHDD).
Reference............................53-58
.21
.21
.21
AdditionalInformation....................53
OverwritingRecording.................53
Title
List
Viewing
menu
DVDRecordersorPlayers.............53
Playing
Your
Recordings
Players(FinalizingaDisc).
.23
LanguageCodes.......................54
AreaCodes...........................54
Your
TV
with
Controlling
RemoteControl........................55
the
Troubleshooting......................56-57
.29
Specifications..........................58
DivX
Details
playback
recording
Menu
Overview
Playlist
to
Title/Chapter
Deletion
. . . . . . . . . . . .
displayed
on
Other
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Supplied
file
. . . . .
. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
Editing
the
Playlist
. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . .
on
other
DVD
.33-34
. . .
. . .
. .
. .
.39
.39
.41
.41
.42
.43
.44
.45
.47
.47
.48
.52
.52
.53
3

Dubbing
Before
Use
the
copying
Back
up
a
MakeaDVD
play
Transfer
Transfer
The
Touch
copy
DVD,
Note:
If
the
is
not
Restrictions
Some
material
You
playbackbydisplaying
NTSC
inputs
Video
tuner
format.
What
CPRM
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broadcast
Protection
CPRM
discs
CPRM
are
Copyright
Recording
copying
is
making
as
legal
This
technology
certain
rights
rights
technology
Corporation,
limited
50
important recordings
DVD.
in
another
video
edited
simplest
Copy
the
title
or
the
title's
available.
video
cannot
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identify
format
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signals
or
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is
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only
programs.
for
recordings
formatted
recordings
specifically
and
lawful
copying
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filmsormusicisunlawful
exception
product
U.S.
owned
owners.
viewing
Dubbing
features
of
copy
method
feature.
that's
other
length
material
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signals
recorded
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copy
allowing
Recordable
inVRmode
compatible
equipment
you
copy.
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by
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andisintended
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player.
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the
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the
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to
PICTURE.
PICTURE
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THE
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HDD/DVD
CUSTOMER
Fast
Copying
digital
quality
transfer
the
quality
It
also
maximum
When
copying
of
DVD
Minimum
The
TV
table
copying
mode.
Disc
Type
DVD-R/DVD+R
DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+RW
DVD+R
DVD-RW
DVD-RAM
DVD-R/DVD+R
DVD-RW/DVD+RW
DVD-RAM
DVD+R/DVD+RW
DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM
Notes:
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timesinthe
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a
being
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compatible
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initializedonanother
by
DEFINITION
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USER
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means
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copying
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back
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getting
that
speed
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depends
disc
you're
fast
copying
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time
for2hoursofvideo
copy
speed
recorded.
be
may
discs
may
Macrovision
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NOTE
THIS
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TO
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and
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8x
6x
5x
4x
3x
DL
2.4x
2x
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12x)
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mode
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SP
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8
13
12
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13
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disc
Copying

Language
Use
this
list
Disc
Audio,
Language
Abkhazian
Afar
Afrikaans
Albanian
Ameharic
Arabic
Armenian
Assamese
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Basque
Bengali;
Bhutani
Bihari
Breton
Bulgarian
Burmese
Byelorussian
Cambodian
Catalan
Chinese
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Bangla
to
Disc
Codes
input
Subtitle,
Code
6566
6565
6570
8381
6577
6582
7289
6583
6588
6590
6665
6985
6678
6890
6672
6682
6671
7789
6669
7577
6765
9072
6779
7282
6783
6865
7876
6978
6979
6984
7079
your
desired
Disc
language
Menu.
Language
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
Laothian
Latin
Latvian,
Lettish
for
the
Code
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
following
initial
settings:
Language
Lingala
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Moldavian
Mongolian
Nauru
Nepali
Norwegian
Oriya
Panjabi
Pushto
Pashto,
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Quechua
Rhaeto-Romance
Rumanian
Russian
Samoan
Sanskrit
Scots
Gaelic
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Shona
Sindhi
Code
7678
7684
7775
7771
7783
7776
7784
7773
7782
7779
7778
7865
7869
7879
7982
8065
8083
7065
8076
8084
8185
8277
8279
8285
8377
8365
7168
8382
8372
8378
8368
Language
Singhalese
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sudanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tajik
Tamil
Tatar
Telugu
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya
Tonga
Turkish
Turkmen
Twi
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Volapuk
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zulu
Code
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
54
Area
Choose
Area
Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bhutan
Bolivia
Brazil
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo
Costa
Rica
Croatia
Czech
Republic
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
El
Salvador
Codes
an
area
code
Code
from
this
list.
AF
AR
AU
AT
BE
BT
BO
BR
KH
CA
CL
CN
CO
CG
CR
HR
CZ
DK
EC
EG
SV
Area
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Germany
Great
Britain
Greece
Greenland
Heard
and
McDonald
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Kuwait
Libya
Luxembourg
Islands
Code
ET
FJ
FI
FR
DE
GB
GR
GL
HM
HU
IN
ID
IL
IT
JM
JP
KE
KW
LY
LU
Area
Malaysia
Maldives
Mexico
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Nepal
Netherlands
Netherlands
New
Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian
Federation
Antilles
Code
OM
MY
MV
MX
MC
MN
MA
NP
NL
AN
NZ
NG
NO
Area
Saudi
Arabia
Senegal
Singapore
Slovak
Slovenia
South
Africa
South
Spain
Sri
Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Republic
Korea
Turkey
PK
PA
PY
PH
PL
PT
RO
RU
Uganda
Ukraine
United
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Zimbabwe
States
Code
SA
SN
SG
SK
SI
ZA
KR
ES
LK
SE
CH
TH
TR
UG
UA
US
UY
UZ
VN
ZW

Specifications
General
Power
Power
Dimensions
Operating
Operating
Television
Recording
requirements
consumption
Mass
temperature
(approx.)
(approx.)
humidity
system
format
AC
200-240V,
35W
430X54X275
4.1
kg
5˚Cto35˚C
5
to
90
%
PAL
PAL
%
I,
B/G,
I/I,
50/60
mm
SECAM
(w
Hz
xhx
D/K,
d)
K1,
without
SECAM
foot
L
color
system
Recording
Video
Audio
Playback
Inputs
Recording
Recordable
Recordable
recording
Sampling
format
frequency
Compression
recording
Sampling
format
frequency
Compression
Frequency
Signal-to-noise
Harmonic
response
distortion
Dynamic
AERIAL
VIDEO
AUDIO
S-VIDEO
format
media
time
format
format
ratio
range
DV
DVD
Video
(RH188:
Recording,
160GB,
HDD
DVD-ReWritable,
DVD+Recordable,
DVD
(4.7GB):
4
hours
DVD+R
3
hours
10
hours
HDD
(160GB/250GB):
82/129
226/356
27MHz
MPEG
48kHz
Dolby
Digital
DVD
(PCM
DVD(PCM96kHz):8Hzto44kHz
More
than
Less
than
More
than
IN
IN
IN
IN
IN
Aerial
input,
1.0
Vp-p
2.0
Vrms
1.0
(Y)
(C)0.3V(p-p)75Ω
4
pin
(IEEE
DL
2
75
V
(LP
(8.5GB):
40
30
hours
hours
(VBR
48
100
0.008%
95
75
ohms,
more
(p-p),
1394
Approx.
mode),
minutes
minutes
support)
kHz):
dB
dB
ohms
than
75
DVD-VIDEO
RH199/RH199MH/RH200MH:
DVD-Recordable,
DVD+Recordable
1
hour
6
hours
Approx.
(SP
mode),
(EP
Approx.
(SP
mode),
(EP
mode)
8
Hz
to
47
kohms,
sync
OUT
OUT
OUT
negative,
negative,
(AUDIO
(AUDIO
(AUDIO
sync
Ω,
standard)
(XP
(EP
3
hour
mode)
42
152/239
22
kHz,
connector)
connector)
connector)
RCA
DVD+ReWritable,
(Double
mode),
2
Layer),
hours
mode)
(XP
mode),
7
hours
10
hours/66
RCA
hours
CD:8Hz
jack
jack
(L,
Mini
DIN
hours
(LP
x
R)
minutes
mode),
to
2
/
SCART
x
4-pin
(SP
30
20
2
250GB),
DVD-RAM
mode),
minutes
kHz
/
SCART
x
1
(LP
mode),
x
2
x
(XP
2
mode),
Outputs
COMPONENT
HDMI
(RH199MH/RH200MH
Audio
output
Audio
output
Audio
output
Accessory:
Scartcable.............................1
Audiocable(L,R)........................1
Remotecontrol..........................1
Design
58
and
VIDEO
S-VIDEO
VIDEO
video/audio
(digital
(optical
(analog
specifications
OUT
OUT
OUT
output
only)
audio)
audio)
audio)
are
1
75
Vp-p
1.0
V
(Y)
(C)0.3V(p-p)75Ω
1.0
V
(Y)
(Pb)/(Pr)
19
pin
(HDMI
0.5
V
(p-p),
3
V
(p-p),
2.0
Vrms
subjecttochange
Ω,
sync
(p-p),
(p-p),
0.7
V
standard,
75
Optical
KHz,
(1
without
negative,
75
Ω,
75
Ω,
(p-p),
RCA
Ω,
connector
0
75
dB),
notice.
RCA
sync
negative,
sync
negative,
RCA
Ω,
Type
jack
600
Videocable.....................1
RFCoaxialCable................1
Batteries.......................2
jack
A)
x
1
x
1
RCA
Ω,
jack
x
Mini
RCA
x
jack
1
/
SCART
DIN
jack
2
(L,
4-pin
x
R)
x
2
x
1
1
x
1
/
SCART
x
2