Table Of Contents - Pioneer DVR-520H Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Before you start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . 9
About the internal hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
02 Connecting up
Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Extra features for use with compatible TVs . . . . . . . . 13
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using other types of audio/video output . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver . . . . . 16
Connecting an external decoder box (1) . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting an external decoder box (2) . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting to an AV amplifier/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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 33
05 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4
En
Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 47
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 56
Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 56
Recording from a DV camcorder
(DVR-520H/720H only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Recording from the DV output
(DVR-520H/720H only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 59
Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
07 Copying and back-up
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
One Touch Copy (HDD to DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
One Touch Copy (DVD to HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Copying from HDD to DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
HDD to DVD Copy List menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Recording the Copy List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
HDD to DVD Copy List commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Copying from DVD to HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
DVD to HDD Copy List menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Recording the Copy List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
DVD to HDD Copy List commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Using disc back-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
08 Editing
The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Disc Navigator menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Editing VR mode Original, Video mode and HDD
content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Editing HDD groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Creating and editing a VR mode Play List . . . . . . . . . 84