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Geek girl. Freelance copywriter and editor at Unmistakable.co.nz.
Geek girl. Freelance copywriter and editor at Unmistakable.co.nz.
A few things not in the DMR-HWT260GN user manual.
1. The chapter mark button is missing from the remote but you can still make a chapter mark with a Harmony remote. It is also possible to add chapter marks automatically or every 5 minutes, instructions below.
2. The Timeslip button is also missing, a Harmony remote will do it.
3. This modal does Australia and New Zealand therefore it is possible to record programs when New Zealand is selected then switch to Australia to watch the recordings without the NZ Freeview restrictions.
This requires a return to Shipping condition witch deletes everything except the recordings on the HDD, not very convenient but it is possible to save the settings and Timer recordings to a USB Flash drive.
Procedure to Backup Settings and add chapter marks :
Prepare a USB flash drive by creating a directory/folder with name EEPBAKUP on the USB. I used 2 new empty 4 GB USB.
Turn on recorder with no USB in back port and not recording,
With live TV picture on. Press and hold buttons 5, 9 and Red on the remote control simultaneously for about 5 sec., then "70 RET" is displayed on recorder display window, now press right nav button twice to display "82 TSR" press OK the image below will now be displayed on the TV screen.
[ CAUTION be very careful when doing this if OK is pressed when "81 AIG" is displayed the HDD is reformatted and all recordings are lost, there is no warning ]
Time is accumulated time of Power ON Count is number of times of Power ON/OFF
Insert USB memory for writing.
Using remote move the curser to Backup Data to USB
Press OK
After "Try then OK" is displayed, the data has been exported to USB
Note: If there is something wrong with the USB "NG No USB" will be displayed. If the backup file already exists in the USB, the data is overwritten and "OK" is displayed
Remove the USB from the unit
Turn the unit OFF to finish.
Adding the auto and 5min chaptering to New Zealand from Australia
Return recorder to shipping condition
Select Australia then NSW
When it starts auto tuning press return as it won't find any channels, it is now possible to watch the
recordings on the HDD and use the 60sec skip and timeslip.
The default setting for chapter creation is auto so no need to change any settings.
Exit recordings and backup settings to USB. Turn off unit.
Turn on unit and go to settings >> HDD/USB HDD >> Settings for Recording >> Chapter Creation, change to 5min.
Exit settings and backup settings to 2nd USB. Turn unit off.
Turn ON, then to Shipping condition, return to New Zealand.
After it has tuned the channels select Restore Data from USB and press OK with the USB backup from Australia
After turning OFF unit unplug or turn off at wall for a few seconds, when going through the settings on restart check the clock settings, the only problem I had was the clock turning off overnight for the first night.
Now all recordings, including radio, will have a chapter mark every 5min this can save a bit of fast forward and of course when chapter view is selected a row of thumbnail pictures is now displayed.
Automatic chapters only worked on channels 1, 2, and 3 it made a lot of chapters 17 in 33min but you can try it using the other USB.
After using for it for a couple of days with no problems I then made another backup to the USB overwriting the Australia backup now the USB has all the New Zealand settings and timer recording info plus the Australia chapter creation setting, this makes it easy to swap between auto and 5 min using 2 USB flash drives.
This method was used with no PC involvement other than the initial creation of the folder to minimize the risk of corrupting the EPROM.
When I looked in the EEPBAKUP folder it contained three exec named BACKUP6.DAT , BACKUP7.DAT and EEPBAK.DAT Opening these with a text editor revealed that BACKUP6.DAT had the timer recording names BACKUP7,DAT had no plain text, EEPBAK,DAT had DMR-HWT260 in plain text plus other stuff this would suggest that this is the settings exec.
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