Pioneer DVR-230-s DVR User Manual


 
Getting started
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Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
If the recorder is connected to your TV using a SCART
cable and your TV supports Direct Recording, it’s
possible to quickly start recording whatever channel
your TV is tuned to. See
Direct recording from TV
on
page 38 for detailed instructions.
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 56)
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 56), 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 56).
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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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