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CONNECTING UP YOUR TV RECORDER
VCR
RF lead
Aerial
Mains lead
WARNING
Before you connect or disconnect your TV Recorder to/from any other equipment,
make sure you disconnect all the equipment from the mains supply. Also refer to
the safety and electrical information in your TV Recorder's User Guide.
The diagram, above, shows how to connect your TV Recorder to a TV and video recorder
(VCR).
Connect the RF and SCART leads as shown (an RF lead and a SCART lead are supplied with
your TV Recorder).
When you have made all the above connections, connect all equipment to the mains supply.
IN
OUT
IN
RF lead
Composite
Video
Aerial
PACE Micro Technology plc
TV
L
115-230V ~50/60Hz 36W max.
S Video
R
Ch21-69 TV

Quick Start Guide

SCART lead
TV2/VCR
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U
TV
DIGITAL AUDIO OUT
D
SERIAL INTERFACE
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O
TV
RF lead
SCART lead
TV Recorder
CAUTION
RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK
DO NOT OPEN
WARNING: TO PREVENT FIRE OR ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD,
DO NOT EXPOSE THIS PRODUCT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE,
OR REMOVE COVER. NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE.
REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.
Made in France

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  • Page 1: Quick Start Guide

    DO NOT EXPOSE THIS PRODUCT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE, OR REMOVE COVER. NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. DIGITAL AUDIO OUT REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. PACE Micro Technology plc SERIAL INTERFACE 115-230V ~50/60Hz 36W max. S Video Made in France...

  • Page 2: Switching On For The First Time

    FITTING YOUR REMOTE CONTROL’S BATTERIES Insert the two batteries into your remote control. Make sure you insert them the correct way round, as shown by the + signs on the drawing in the battery compartment. For full details of your remote control’s buttons, please see your User Guide. SWITCHING ON FOR THE FIRST TIME When you have connected your TV Recorder to the mains supply,...

  • Page 3: Changing Channel

    CHANGING CHANNEL You can change channel by: • using the Ch + and Ch – buttons; • using the number buttons to select a valid channel number; • pressing the List button, then the arrow buttons to go through the current list, then OK to change;...

  • Page 4: Playing Back Recordings

    If you still have problems after consulting the table, contact the Technical Helpdesk* on 0870 120 0986 (national call rate) or e-mail twins@pace.co.uk * Calls to the Helpdesk may be monitored or recorded for training purposes. Copyright © 2003 Pace Micro Technology plc. All rights reserved. ® Pace Micro Technology plc...
  • Page 6 ADDENDUM TO USER GUIDE This Addendum should be read in RECORDING LIBRARY conjunction with the User Guide that is included with your Pace Twin Digital TV To display the Recording library, press Recorder. the Library button on your remote control.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........2 IMPORTANT .

  • Page 8: Introduction

    INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Thank you for choosing the Pace Twin Digital TV Recorder. Please follow the instructions in this manual carefully to enjoy all the advantages of digital TV. We advise following the user instructions and recommendations supplied with your TV Recorder, especially for first-time use.

  • Page 9: Important

    It is important that you read these safety instructions. If you have any doubts about the installation, operation or safety of your TV Recorder, please contact the Technical Helpdesk* on 0870 120 0986 (national call rate) or e-mail twins@pace.co.uk WARNING Remember that contact with AC mains can be lethal or can cause severe electric shock.

  • Page 10: Electrical Information

    ELECTRICAL INFORMATION MAINS PLUG AND ITS FUSE The supplied plug may be a non-rewireable type or a rewireable type. Both types contain an approved 3A fuse. If you need to replace the fuse, you must use an ASTA- or BSI-approved BS1362 fuse, rated at 3A and marked: The non-rewireable plug has its fuse beneath a fuse cover on its face.

  • Page 11: Your Digital Tv Recorder

    This User Guide contains all you need to which guide you through connecting and know about how to watch and record setting it up. digital terrestrial TV using your Pace See also page 8, page 9 and page 10, Digital TV Recorder. which describe your TV Recorder’s It’s easy to install;...

  • Page 12: Connecting Up

    DO NOT EXPOSE THIS PRODUCT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE, OR REMOVE COVER. NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. DIGITAL AUDIO OUT REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. PACE Micro Technology plc SERIAL INTERFACE 115-230V ~50/60Hz 36W max. S Video Made in France...

  • Page 13: Getting Started

    GETTING STARTED REMOTE CONTROL Insert the two batteries into your remote control unit, making sure you insert them Note: If you press the Return button, the correct way round. your TV Recorder will not save the found channels, and the Language menu will SWITCHING YOUR be redisplayed.

  • Page 14: Your Remote Control

    YOUR REMOTE CONTROL This page shows the buttons on your remote control that you need to set your TV Recorder up. All the other buttons are described on page 9 and page 10. The features of your TV Recorder that can be accessed using the remote control are Standby (S) as follows.
  • Page 15 YOUR REMOTE CONTROL YOUR REMOTE CONTROL’S BUTTONS To put your TV Recorder into, To change channel or take it out of standby To enter on-screen numbers such as the To switch between normal Parental code analogue TV (e.g. to watch To enter text when, for playback from a connected example, you rename...
  • Page 16 YOUR REMOTE CONTROL To return to the previous To display the on-screen selection or screen channel list (without saving any changes) RECORDING AND PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS To record a 30-minute clip To record the programme of the channel you are you are currently watching currently watching To record the highlighted To set a bookmark during...

  • Page 17: Daily Use

    DAILY USE Switching on and off Using Favourites lists Whenever you are not using your TV You use Favourites lists to allow you to Recorder you should put it into standby. access your favourite channels quickly. You should not unplug it at the mains. (See page 25 to find out how to create your Favourites lists.) To take your TV Recorder out of standby,...
  • Page 18 DAILY USE TV2/VCR SCART output While you are viewing this screen, you can affect the output from the TV2/VCR If you want to view the current output SCART as follows: from the TV2/VCR SCART, on a TV connected to the TV SCART, press the •...

  • Page 19: Electronic Programme Guide

    ELECTRONIC PROGRAMME GUIDE The Electronic Programme Guide This information is available only if (EPG) provides you with current provided by the broadcaster. programme and channel information and an on-screen TV Schedule. ‘NOW & NEXT’ PROGRAMME INFORMATION Press the Info button to display If you want to record the current or next information on the current channel.
  • Page 20 ELECTRONIC PROGRAMME GUIDE TV SCHEDULE Press the Guide button to display the TV Schedule. You may have to wait a few seconds before the information appears. The channels are listed on the left. When you first display the TV Schedule, the current programme on the first channel is selected (shown by a blue background).

  • Page 21: Recording Digital Tv

    RECORDING DIGITAL TV “ONE-TOUCH” RECORDING If you want to immediately start recording are visible in the Now & Next information the programme you are currently banner. watching, simply press the Record (M) A red line appears in the progress bar, to button once;...
  • Page 22 RECORDING DIGITAL TV EVENT CONFIRMATION When you choose to record a programme • to change the “target” where the from the TV Schedule (see page 15), the event is to be recorded, use the Event confirmation window appears. buttons. You can choose ‘TV SCART’, ‘VCR SCART’...
  • Page 23 RECORDING DIGITAL TV EVENT LIST This is a list of scheduled events in time/ Use the buttons to switch between date order. To display the Event list, all events and those scheduled only for press the Events (N) button on your the TV SCART, TV2/VCR SCART or Hard remote control.
  • Page 24 RECORDING DIGITAL TV CONFLICTING EVENTS TV2/VCR SCART OUTPUT Whenever you add a new event, for When a recording to disk (except a live example by using the Record (M) button, pause recording) is in progress, the TV2/ or by editing an event’s details in the VCR SCART output shows the same Event confirmation window, your TV event.

  • Page 25: Pausing Live Tv

    PAUSING LIVE TV When you are watching a programme on DISK SPACE LIMIT a TV connected to the TV SCART (providing that a recording to disk is not The available recording time (disk space) already in progress) you can pause the using this feature is limited to a pre-set programme.

  • Page 26: Playing Back Recordings

    PLAYING BACK RECORDINGS RECORDING LIBRARY This is a list of existing recordings in time/ Playing back a recording date order. To display the Recording To play back the highlighted recording, library, press the Library button on your press the OK button. For full details of remote control.
  • Page 27 PLAYING BACK RECORDINGS PLAYBACK CONTROLS This section describes how you can In addition to the standard VCR-style control the playback of recordings that controls, you can use the following are on the disk of your TV Recorder. buttons on your remote control, while playback is in progress: The bottom two rows of buttons on your remote control have VCR-style symbols...
  • Page 28 PLAYING BACK RECORDINGS RECORDING INFORMATION Whenever you are playing back a This screen displays additional recording recording (including a live pause information, such as: recording), you can view more • a list of bookmarks (if any exist); information about it. •...

  • Page 29: Archiving Recordings

    ARCHIVING RECORDINGS COPYING RECORDINGS TO YOUR VCR This feature enables you to archive (copy) recordings, shown in the Recording Note: If the copying process would library, from the disk to your VCR, via the cause a conflict with existing scheduled TV2/VCR SCART connection.

  • Page 30: Main Menu

    MAIN MENU USING THE MAIN MENU EVENTS AND RECORDINGS You access some of your TV Recorder’s To display the Event list, highlight features, particularly those which you use Events then press the button. This only occasionally, via the Main menu. has the same effect as pressing the Events (N) button on your remote control To display the Main menu, press the...

  • Page 31: Favourites Lists

    FAVOURITES LISTS ABOUT FAVOURITES LISTS After your TV Recorder has scanned for channels, all the channels it has found are Note: The same channel may appear in stored in the All channels list. (For more several lists. information about the All channels list, see page 27).
  • Page 32 FAVOURITES LISTS Changing the list name Changing the channel order To change the name of the list, press the There are two different ways you can Blue button. The Rename list screen change the order of the channels in the appears.

  • Page 33: All Channels List

    ALL CHANNELS LIST ABOUT THE ALL CHANNELS LIST The All channels list contains all the Locking and unlocking channels channels that are stored by your TV To lock or unlock a channel, highlight the Recorder. This is the list that you choose channel then press the Yellow button.

  • Page 34: Parental Lock

    OK button. Or, you can just de- Technical Helpdesk* on 0870 120 0986 activate the Parental lock (see right). (national call rate) or e-mail twins@pace.co.uk LOCKING CHANNELS You use the Edit channel list screen, available from the Channel list menu to lock channels.

  • Page 35: Configuration Settings

    CONFIGURATION SETTINGS CHANGING THE TV SETTINGS When you first install your TV Recorder, Use the buttons to move between you may need to change some of the each line and the buttons to change settings to match the type of TV you have the setting.
  • Page 36 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS TV2/VCR Item Available settings Comments TV screen format Normal [4:3] If you have a widescreen TV, set this to Widescreen [16:9] Widescreen [16/9], otherwise set it to Normal [4:3]. 16:9 Picture Automatic This setting determines how handling Letterbox programmes broadcast in widescreen True 16:9 letterbox format appear on your TV.
  • Page 37 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS This menu allows you to change the From the Configuration menu, select following miscellaneous settings: Installation, then Miscellaneous. The Miscellaneous screen displays. • Local time; Use the buttons to move between • Phono audio volume; each line and the buttons to change •...
  • Page 38 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS CHANGING THE LANGUAGE SETTINGS Programme language and subtitling From the Configuration menu, select Preference, then Language choice. The Some programmes may be transmitted in Language choice screen displays. Use more than one language and/or with buttons to move between each subtitles in more than one language.
  • Page 39 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS Menu language SCANNING FOR CHANNELS You can change the language that all the Your TV Recorder automatically scans for on-screen menus and screens display in. channels when you first set it up, as To change the Menu language, press the described on page 7.
  • Page 40 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS HARD DISK CONFIGURATION To change or check your TV Recorder’s Other functions hard disk settings, press the Menu button • Check – if you want your TV to display the Main menu, then select Recorder to check the disk for Configuration.
  • Page 41 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS TECHNICAL INFORMATION You may need to refer to the Signal information and Product data screens if Note: All the settings you have changed, you have reason to contact the Technical for example the Parental code will be Helpdesk. The information on these reset to the factory setting, and any screens may help diagnose any difficulty Favourites lists you have created will be...
  • Page 42 CONFIGURATION SETTINGS Receiving the upgrade information Setting your TV Recorder to be upgraded later on When you change channel to a BBC channel, and an upgrade is available, the To set your TV Recorder to be upgraded following message displays on your TV later on, press the Blue button.

  • Page 43: Troubleshooting

    – this may provide the answer you are looking for. If you still have problems after consulting the table, contact the Technical Helpdesk* on 0870 120 0986 (national call rate) or e-mail twins@pace.co.uk * Calls to the Helpdesk may be monitored or recorded for training purposes.
  • Page 44 TROUBLESHOOTING Problem Possible cause Suggested remedy You cannot see The aerial at the Scan for channels again, as digital channels any new location may described on page 33. more after you have be receiving from a It could be that the aerial at your moved your TV different transmitter.
  • Page 45 TROUBLESHOOTING Problem Possible cause Suggested remedy The picture (i) If you have other (i) Try connecting your aerial directly sometimes breaks devices connected to your TV recorder. If this stops the up into “blocks”. to your TV aerial, picture breaking up then there is not there may not be enough signal strength to use enough signal...

  • Page 46: Technical Specification

    TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION Due to continued improvement, this specification may change without notice. GENERAL Operating voltage... 115 – 230V AC; 50/60Hz Power consumption ..36W (maximum) Weight .
  • Page 47 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION REAR-PANEL CONNECTIONS Mains input ....IEC 320 2-pin Aerial in ....IEC 169-2 female RF out .

  • Page 48: End-User Licence

    Software. 6. You are not authorised to use your Pace Digital TV Recorder in a way which infringes the intellectual property rights of third parties. Copying programmes is...
  • Page 49 END-USER LICENCE Disclaimer 1. The Software is (to the extent permitted by law) supplied ‘as is’ and Pace and its suppliers expressly exclude all warranties, express or implied, including (but not limited to) warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and non- infringement (save to the extent that the same are not capable of exclusion at law).

  • Page 50: An Idea To Consider

    AN IDEA TO CONSIDER . . . WIRELESS AUDIO/VIDEO SENDERS Description Wireless audio/video senders use a radio frequency of 2.4 GHz to distribute audio and video signals around the house, eliminating the need to use long cables between rooms. This transmission method is completely legal in the UK, when you use approved equipment.
  • Page 51 ® Pace Micro Technology plc Victoria Road Saltaire Shipley West Yorkshire BD18 3LF England www.pace.co.uk Pace are trademarks of Pace Micro Technology plc. ® ® X150-067-IE01...

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