Making Your First Recording - Pioneer DVR-920H Operating Instructions Manual

04 Getting started

Making your first recording

This quick guide shows you how to make a basic
recording of a TV program on either the HDD, or to a
recordable DVD.
Recording is covered in much more detail in chapter 7
(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 HDD to record to the HDD, or DVD to record
to a recordable DVD.
If you choose to record to the HDD, skip to step 5 now.
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STANDBY/ON
OPEN/CLOSE
HDD DVD
CHANNEL
PLAY
PAUSE STOP
REC STOP REC
DVD RECORDER
3 Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray.
4 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.
5 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 63 for detailed instructions.
6 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
REC or PAUSE again to restart recording.
Press
7 When you want to stop recording, press
STOP REC.
Playing back your recording
The TV program you just recorded should be on the HDD
or 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
recording, press STOP.
PAUSE.