Table Of Contents - Pioneer DVR-5100H 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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05 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Switching the audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 49
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 57
Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 57
Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 60
Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
07 Copying and back-up
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
One Touch Copy* (HDD to DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
One Touch Copy* (DVD to HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Copying from HDD to DVD* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Copying from DVD to HDD* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Using disc back-up* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73