Table Of Contents - Pioneer DVR-440H-S Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Before you start
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Putting the batteries in the
remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Using the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Disc / content format playback
compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the internal hard disk drive . . . . . . 12
Symbols used in this manual . . . . . . . . . 13
02 Connecting up
Rear panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using other types of audio/video output . 17
Connecting to a cable box, satellite
receiver or digital terrestrial receiver . . . . 18
Connecting an external decoder box (1) . 20
Connecting an external decoder box (2) . 21
Connecting to an AV amplifier/receiver . . 22
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . 23
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
04 Getting started
Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . 29
Setting up the GUIDE Plus+® system . . 32
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05 Using the GUIDE Plus+®
electronic program guide
The GUIDE Plus+® system . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the GUIDE Plus+® system . . . . . 37
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
GUIDE Plus+® FAQ and
troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . 54
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Setting the picture quality/recording
time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . 57
Pause Live TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Simultaneous recording and playback
(Chase Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Recording from an external
component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Playing your recordings on other DVD
players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Initializing recordable DVD discs . . . . . . 66
07 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Using the Disc Navigator to browse
the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . 74
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74