Panasonic TU-CTH100 User Manual

Programme Edit Screen - Divide

This feature allows the user to divide a recording into two seperate recordings.

Once a recording has been divided into two separate recordings they cannot be recombined.

Navigate to the point in the recording where you wish to divide it and pause playback.

Press the OK key to set the divide point.

The divide point will be transferred to the right hand window along with the counter time reading.

To cancel this divide point and set a different point press the Green key.

To divide the recording at this point press the Red key.

A warning message will appear.

The user is informed that once a recording has been divided into two separate recordings, it can not be recombined.

To divide the recording press the OK key.

To abort this action, press the EXIT key.

Once a recording has been divided, the two separate recordings will appear in the Direct Navigator Screen.

The second recording has the same title but with (2) next to it.

To exit the Programme Edit – Divide screen press the EXIT key.

While the Recording is being divided, ‘Please wait’ will appear on screen. Dependent upon the recording, the Divide Process may take several minutes to complete.

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Pausing Live Broadcasts (Live 1 or Live 2)

This PVR allows you to pause a live broadcast and resume watching it later. The length of time you can pause a live broadcast is dependent on the Live TV buffer setting in the Picture and Sound Menu (see page 11).

To pause a live broadcast press the Pause key. This will freeze the picture and the following message box will appear on screen.

You cannot use the Source key to switch to another channel while in pause mode.

To resume watching the broadcast, press the Pause key. A banner will appear showing how much time has elapsed since the live broadcast was paused.

At any time, press the Display key to display this banner showing how far behind Live Broadcast you are.

To resume watching the live broadcast press the Live key.

Press the Live key again to switch back to the Paused playback.

To exit Paused Playback mode press the STOP key while viewing the Paused Playback.

Paused Playback Mod

Live Mode

Rewinding Live TV (Live 1 or Live 2)

While watching Live TV on Live 1 or Live 2, you are able to rewind the programme you are watching to review a section again.

To review a section of the current programme being watched, press the Rewind key to rewind to the required point and then press the Play key.

To return to Live TV press the Live key.

The amount of time that you can rewind Live 1 for is dependant on the Live TV Buffer setting in the Picture and Sound Menu (see page 11).

Deleting All Contents of the HDD

The PVR allows the user to delete all contents of the Hard Disk in one simple operation.

Press the Menu key to enter the Setup Menu

Select the Disk Manager option using the cursor keys and press the OK key

Select the Delete Contents option using the cursor keys and press the OK key.

Once the Disk contents have been deleted they cannot be restored, please ensure that you do not wish to keep any of the contents of the disk before using this option.

A box will appear asking if you to confirm that you want to delete all content on the disk. If you are sure you wish to delete all contents press the OK key.

You will be asked twice more to confim that you wish to delete all Hard Disk content. Press the OK key twice and all Hard Disk contents will be deleted

If you do not want to delete all contents press the MENU key to return to the Disk Manager Menu or the EXIT key to exit the menus.

Picture In Picture (PIP)/Picture and Picture (PAP)

This feature allows the user to view two pictures at the same time. The following options are available:

Picture in Picture (PIP) – One Picture is viewed full screen with a second picture in a small window.

Picture and Picture (PAP) - The two pictures are viewed side by side.

Press the PIP/PAP key to step through the PIP feature, the PAP feature and exit to Full Screen.

The content of the two windows can be changed to allow the user to view one of the following options

Live 1 and Live 2 (in normal or record mode).

Live 1 and Archive (If a recording is being played back).

Live 2 and Archive (If a recording is being played back).

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PIP (Picture In Picture)

This function displays one picture full screen and another picture in a smaller window, situated in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. The contents of the smaller window can be controlled using the colour keys on the remote. Colour key operations are displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Press the Red key to select the source of the Small window. Choose between live broadcast or Archive recording playback if available.

Use the Yellow (Prog+) and Blue key (Prog-) to step through available channels. If the source in the smaller window is being recorded, the yellow and blue keys are disabled.

Press the Green key to swap the contents of the two windows

To change the channel that is displayed full screen, use the channel up/down key

Only the Picture that is displayed full screen will have audio.

PAP (Picture and Picture)

This function displays two pictures side by side in equal sized windows.

The colour keys control the contents of the window highlighted with a Blue border. Colour key operations are displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Press the Red key to select the source of the highlighted window. Choose between live broadcast or archive recording playback, if available.

Use the Yellow key (Prog+) and Blue key (Prog-) to step through the available channels. If the source in the highlighted window is being recorded, the yellow and blue keys are disabled.

To change the channel of the window without the blue border, use the channel up/down key.

Press the Green key to switch the highlight between the left and right windows.

Press the PIP/PAP key to exit the PAP mode, the window without the blue highlight will be shown full screen.

In Picture and Picture Mode, the window with audio is indicated by a speaker icon.

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