About Timer Recordings - Pioneer DVR-660H-S - 250GB HDD Multizoned DVR Operating Instructions Manual

Recording
into standby if no other operation is being
performed.
• To cancel the set recording time, press
 REC.
• If you want to pause recording at any
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time , press  PAUSE. Press again to
restart the recording (If recording to the
HDD, DVD-RAM or DVD-R/-RW (VR
mode), a new chapter is started after
recording restarts).
STOP REC
6 Press to stop recording.
• If you set the recording time in the
previous step, you can still stop the
recording anytime by pressing
STOP REC.
• Recording will stop automatically when
there is no more space on the HDD/DVD,
or after 12 hours of HDD recording
(whichever is sooner).

About timer recordings

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Using the timer recording features you can
program up to 32 timer recordings up to a
month in advance. Timer recording
programmes can be set to record just once,
every day, or every week.
There are three ways to set a timer recording;
using the Easy Timer Recording feature (see
Easy Timer Recording on page 40), using the
VCR Plus+ programming system (see Timer
recording using the VCR Plus+ programming
system on page 41), or using manual timer
recording (see Setting a manual timer
recording on page 42).
You can set the recording quality for your
timer recording in the same way as for a
regular recording, but with the added option
of an AUTO mode, which maximizes the
recording quality for the space available on
the disc (if recording to DVD), or to fit on to a
blank DVD disc (if recording to the HDD).
Note
1 Except during Chase Play.
You can set timer recordings to record to a
recordable DVD or to the hard disk drive. For
regular (daily or weekly) HDD timer
recordings that you don't need to keep, you
can use the Auto Replace Recording feature
to automatically replace the previous timer
recording with the new one. Note that when
you use this feature, the previous recording
made on that timer programme will be
replaced by the next one, regardless of
whether you have watched it yet or not.
You can also set the recorder so that it will
adjust the recording quality to try and fit the
recording on to the disc if it would not
otherwise fit at the recording quality you set
(see Optimized Rec on page 117 for more on
this).
Finally, if you set a timer recording to record
to DVD but there isn't a recordable DVD
loaded at the time of the recording, the
Recovery Recording feature will
automatically record the programme to the
HDD for you.
Important
• A timer recording can't be set if there are
already 32 timer programmes waiting to
be recorded.
• Timer recording will not start if:
– The recorder is already recording.
– A disc is being initialized, finalized or
unfinalized.
• Timer recording will start when the
operation preventing timer recording
has finished.
• When the front panel display is set to
ON, the timer indicator (
front panel display when the timer is
active. If the indicator is blinking it
means that (for a DVD timer recording)
there is no disc loaded, or the disc
loaded is not recordable (for an HDD
timer recording it means that the HDD is
not recordable).
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