Table Of Contents - Pioneer DVR-420H Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Before you start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . 10
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . 11
About the internal hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
02 Connecting up
Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using other types of video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . 17
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . 18
Connecting to an AV amplifier or receiver. . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
04 Getting started
Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 32
05 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 45
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 53
Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 54
Recording from a DV camcorder (DVR-520H only) . . 55
Recording from the DV output
(DVR-520H only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 56
Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
07 Copying and back-up
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
One Touch Copy* (HDD to DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
One Touch Copy* (DVD to HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Copying from HDD to DVD* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
HDD to DVD Copy List menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Recording the Copy List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
HDD to DVD Copy List commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Copying from DVD to HDD* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
DVD to HDD Copy List menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Recording the Copy List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
DVD to HDD Copy List commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Using disc back-up* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
08 Editing
The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Disc Navigator menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Editing VR mode Original, Video mode and HDD
content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Editing HDD groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Creating and editing a VR mode Play List . . . . . . . . . 81
09 Disc History
Using the Disc History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
10 The PhotoViewer
Playing a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87