Getting started
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• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
5 Press
ì
REC to start recording.
• By default, the recording will be in
SP
(standard play)
mode, which will give you around two hours of
recording from a blank DVD disc. The different
recording mode and their recommended uses are
covered in mode detail in Chapter 6.
• You can pause recording by pressing
.
Press
ì
REC
or
again to restart recording.
6 When you want to stop recording, press
.
Playing back your recording
The TV program you just recorded should be on the DVD
disc as a single title with one or more chapters.
• Press
to start playback.
If you want to stop playback before the end of the
recording, press
.
Using the built-in TV tuner
Changing TV channels
There are three different ways to select TV channels. Note
that you can’t change the TV channel during playback,
recording or during recording standby.
•
CH +/–
buttons on the remote
•
Number buttons
on the remote – For example, to
select channel 4, press
4
then
ENTER
; for channel 34,
press
3
,
4
,
ENTER
. (If you don’t press
ENTER
, the
channel changes after a few seconds.)
•
+/–
buttons on the front panel
Note
• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
Changing audio channels
You can change the audio channel of the broadcast or
external input signal.
• Press AUDIO to change the audio.
The current audio channel is displayed on-screen.
• If the NICAM audio setting (see
Audio In
on page 52)
is set to
NICAM
and you are watching a NICAM
broadcast, you can switch between
NICAM
and
Regular
(non-NICAM) audio.
• If the NICAM broadcast is bilingual, you can also
select the language.
• You can also select the language for a non-NICAM
bilingual broadcast.
• When watching a recording made from an external
input with
Bilingual
recording selected (see
Audio In
on page 52), you can switch the audio channel
between left (
L
), right (
R
) or both (
L+R
).
Note
• When recording in Video mode, or in VR mode using
the
XP
setting, only one channel of a bilingual
broadcast is recorded. In this case, decide which
language you want to record before recording by
setting the Bilingual Recording setting (see
Audio In
on page 52).
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ENTER
CH+
CH–
AUDIO
NICAM
Regular
NICAM A NICAM B
Regular
NICAM A+B
A (L) B (R)
A + B (L+R)
LR
L+R
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