Making Your First Recording; Using The Built-In Tv Tuner - Pioneer DVR-320 Operating Instructions Manual

Getting started
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Making your first recording

This quick guide shows you how to make a basic
recording of a TV program to a recordable DVD.
Recording is covered in much more detail in chapter 6
(Recording).
1 If they aren't already on, switch on your TV and
this recorder.
STANDBY/ON to switch on.
Press
• Make sure that the video input on your TV is set to this
recorder.
2 Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray.
3 Load a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW disc with the
label side face-up, using the disc guide to align the
disc.
• When you load a new, blank DVD-RW disc, the
recorder will take a moment to initialize it for
recording.
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STANDBY/ON OPEN/CLOSE
CHANNEL
PLAY
STOP
REC STOP REC
DVD RECORDER
4 Use the CHANNEL +/– buttons to select the TV
channel you want to record from.
• You can also use the +/– buttons on the front panel if
the recorder is stopped.
• 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 47 for detailed instructions.
5 Press 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.
• You can pause recording by pressing
Press REC or PAUSE again to restart recording.
6 When you want to stop recording, press
STOP REC.
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 PLAY to start playback.
If you want to stop playback before the end of the
STOP.
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.
• CHANNEL +/– 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.
• +/– buttons on the front panel
PAUSE.
CHANNEL
ENTER