Panasonic Recordable Dvd Home Theater System Sc Rt50 Operating Instructions

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RQT8655
Limited Warranty
Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company, 
Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America
One Panasonic Way Secaucus, New Jersey 07094Panasonic Puerto Rico, Inc.
Ave. 65 de Infanteria, Km. 9.5 
San Gabriel Industrial Park, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00985
Panasonic Audio Products Limited Warranty
Limited Warranty Coverage
If your product does not work properly because of a defect in materials or workmanship,
Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company or Panasonic Puerto Rico, Inc. (collectively
referred to as “the warrantor”) will, for the length of the period indicated on the chart below, 
which starts with the date of original purchase (“warranty period”), at its option either (a) 
repair your product with new or refurbished parts, or (b) replace it with a new or a 
refurbished product. The decision to repair or replace will be made by the warrantor.
During the “Labor” warranty period there will be no charge for labor. During the “Parts” 
warranty period, there will be no charge for parts. You must carry-in or mail-in your product 
during the warranty period. If non-rechargeable batteries are included, they are not 
warranted. This warranty only applies to products purchased and serviced in the United 
States or Puerto Rico. This warranty is extended only to the original purchaser of a new 
product which was not sold “as is”. A purchase receipt or other proof of the original 
purchase date is required for warranty service.Carry-In or Mail-In Service
For Carry-In or Mail-In Service in the United States call 1-800-211-PANA (1-800-211-7262) 
or visit Panasonic web site: http://www.panasonic.com
For assistance in Puerto Rico call Panasonic Puerto Rico, Inc. (787)-750-4300 or fax
(787)-768-2910. 
Limited Warranty Limits And Exclusions
This warranty ONLY COVERS failures due to defects in materials or workmanship, and 
DOES NOT COVER normal wear and tear or cosmetic damage. The warranty ALSO
DOES NOT COVER damages which occurred in shipment, or failures which are caused by 
products not supplied by the warrantor, or failures which result from accidents, misuse, 
abuse, neglect, mishandling, misapplication, alteration, faulty installation, set-up 
adjustments, misadjustment of consumer controls, improper maintenance, power line 
surge, lightning damage, modification, or commercial use (such as in a hotel, office, 
restaurant, or other business), rental use of the product, service by anyone other than a 
Factory Servicenter or other Authorized Servicer, or damage that is attributable to acts of 
God.
THERE ARE NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES EXCEPT AS LISTED UNDER “LIMITED 
WARRANTY COVERAGE”. THE WARRANTOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR 
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THIS PRODUCT, OR 
ARISING OUT OF ANY BREACH OF THIS WARRANTY. (As examples, this excludes 
damages for lost time, travel to and from the servicer, loss of media or images, data or other 
memory content. The items listed are not exclusive, but are for illustration only.) ALL 
EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTY OF 
MERCHANTABILITY, ARE LIMITED TO THE PERIOD OF THE LIMITED WARRANTY.
Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, 
or limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the exclusions may not apply to you.
This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other rights which vary 
from state to state. If a problem with this product develops during or after the warranty 
period, you may contact your dealer or Servicenter. If the problem is not handled to your 
satisfaction, then write to the warrantor’s Consumer Affairs Department at the addresses 
listed for the warrantor.
PARTS AND SERVICE WHICH ARE NOT COVERED BY THIS LIMITED WARRANTY 
ARE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
F1104 Product or Part Name Parts Labor
Audio Products (except items listed 
below)One (1) year  One (1) year
USB Reader-Writer, Personal Computer 
Card Adapters
(in exchange for defective item)One (1) year Not Applicable
Accessories: Headphones, Cartridges, 
Microphones, AdaptersNinety (90) 
daysNinety (90) 
days
Rechargeable Batteries, DVD-R/-RAM 
Discs (in exchange for defective item)Ten (10) days Not Applicable
SD Memory Cards, Rechargeable Battery 
Packs (in exchange for defective item)Ninety (90) 
daysNot Applicable
Customer Services Directory
Obtain Product Information and Operating Assistance; locate your nearest Dealer or Servicenter; purchase Parts and 
Accessories; or make Customer Service and Literature requests by visiting our Web Site at:
http://www.panasonic.com/consumersupport
or, contact us via the web at:
http://www.panasonic.com/contactinfoYou may also contact us directly at:
1-800-211-PANA (7262),
Monday-Friday 9 am-9 pm; Saturday-Sunday 10 am-7 pm, EST.
For hearing or speech impaired TTY users, TTY : 1-877-833-8855
Accessory Purchases
Purchase Parts, Accessories and Instruction Books online for all Panasonic Products by visiting our Web Site at:
http://www.pasc.panasonic.com
or, send your request by E-mail to:
[email protected] may also contact us directly at:
1-800-332-5368 (Phone) 1-800-237-9080 (Fax Only) (Monday – Friday 9 am to 8 pm, EST.)
Panasonic Services Company
20421 84th Avenue South, Kent, WA 98032
(We Accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card, American Express, and Personal Checks)
For hearing or speech impaired TTY users, TTY : 1-866-605-1277
Service in Puerto Rico
Panasonic Puerto Rico, Inc.
Ave. 65 de Infantería, Km. 9.5, San Gabriel Industrial Park, Carolina, Puerto Rico 00985
Phone (787)750-4300, Fax (787)768-2910
Specifications / Limited Warranty 
						

							 2006 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Printed in Malaysia
Panasonic Consumer Electronics
Company, Division of Panasonic 
Corporation of North America
One Panasonic Way Secaucus,
New Jersey 07094
http://www.panasonic.com
Panasonic Puerto Rico, Inc.Ave. 65 de Infantería, Km. 9.5
San Gabriel Industrial Park, Carolina,
Puerto Rico 00985G
RQT8655-1P
F0206HT1036
Index
Angle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Audio
attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
playback  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
receiving, recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Center Focus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Change Thumbnail  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Channel
adding, deleting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]13]
audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
captions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Set Channels Automatically. . . . . . .]12]
Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chasing playback  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Cleaning
disc  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
lens  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
main unit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Clock settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]15]
Close First Layer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
CM Skip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connection
antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]6] ]7] ]9]
cable box, satellite receiver . . . . . ]7] ]8]
DV input terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9,]10]
IN2 input terminals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
radio  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]11]
television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]6] ]7] ]8]
video cassette recorder . . . . . .]6] ]7] ]8]
Copying
DV camcorder recording  . . . . . . . . . . 30
from a video cassette recorder  . . . . . 30
Manual recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
still picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Copy (playlist)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
CPRM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Create Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17, 23, 25
Create DVD Top Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Create playlists  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Delete
album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 31
all titles  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
chapter  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 25
chapter in playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
still picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 31
title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 31
Delete Navigator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dialog Enhancer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Direct Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 22, 26
Divide Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
DNR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Dolby Digital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36DPOF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27, 49
DTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
DV camcorder recording  . . . . . . . . . . .  30
DVD-RAM, DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD-RW, 
+R, +R DL, +RW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
Equalizer (EQ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
Finalize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33, 49
Flexible Recording  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
FR (Flexible Recording Mode) . . . . . . .  11
HDAVI Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
HDMI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9, 49, ]10]
Headphones  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
H.Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  35
JPEG  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19, 49
Language
audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
code list  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
soundtrack  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
subtitle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
Menu
MP3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
Picture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
Setup  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
Mode
recording  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
Still Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
MP3  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20, 49
Muting  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
Name
album  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
playlist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
title  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14, 23
Noise reduction (NR)
DNR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
Line-in NR  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
Off Timer  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
On-screen
language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
status messages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
Progressive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21, 49
Properties
playlist  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  25
still picture  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
title  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23Protection
album. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
cartridge  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
disc  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
still picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Quick View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Radio
connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]11]
FM frequency step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Optional FM antenna connection  . . . 34
Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Recording
DV camcorder recording . . . . . . . . . . 30
Flexible Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
from a video cassette recorder  . . . . . 30
mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
scheduled  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Remote control code. . . . . . . . . . . . . .]15]
Repeat play. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Restore Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Resume play function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Scheduled recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SD card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 8
Setup menu  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Sound Field Control (SFC)  . . . . . . . . . . 35
Shorten Title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Signal Source (RF IN)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Simultaneous rec and play . . . . . . . . . . 13
Soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Speaker delay time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Speaker level adjustments . . . . . . . 36, 40
Status messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Still pictures
copying  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
play  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Subtitle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Subwoofer level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Surround Enhancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Surround Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Thumbnail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
TIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 49
Time Slip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Transfer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
TV Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]14]
Unit care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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