Basic Recording From The Tv - Pioneer DVR-550H-S Operating Instruction

Recording
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• SP (Standard Play) – Default quality,
used for most applications, gives about
two hours of recording time on a DVD.
• LP (Long Play) – Lower video quality than
SP, but doubles the recording time on a
DVD to about four hours.
• EP (Extended Play) – Lower quality than
LP, but gives about six hours of
recording time on a DVD disc.
• SLP (Super Long Play) – Lower quality
than EP, but gives about eight hours of
recording time on a DVD disc.
• SEP (Super Extended Play) – Lowest
video quality but gives about ten hours of
recording time on a DVD disc.
• MN1 to MN32/LPCM
Linear PCM/XP+ (available only when
manual recording is on).
The setting is indicated in the front panel
display, and shown on-screen together with
the recording time for a blank recordable
disc. If a recordable disc is loaded, the
approximate remaining recording time for
that disc is also shown. (Note that if the On
Screen Display setting (see On Screen
Display on page 122) is Off then this
information is not displayed.)
Note
1 Audio is recorded in 16-bit Linear PCM format, video is recorded at XP quality. When recording a bilingual
broadcast, select which audio channel to record (see Bilingual Recording on page 116).
2 Applicable only to HDD recording. (If this setting is used when recording to DVD, MN32 is used.) When copied
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to DVD, XP+ recordings are always copied in real time.
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Basic recording from the TV

DVD (VR) DVD (Video) DVD+R DVD+RW DVD-RAM
HDD
Basic recording from the TV involves just
setting the channel to record, choosing
whether to record to the HDD or a DVD and
selecting the recording quality.
HDD/DVD
1 Select the HDD or DVD for
recording.
• If you're recording to DVD, load a
recordable disc (if you load a new blank
DVD-RW or DVD+RW disc, the recorder
takes a short while to initialize the disc).
• If you want to record a VR mode DVD-R
or a Video mode DVD-RW, you must
initialize it before proceeding (see
Initializing recordable DVD discs on
page 61).
CHANNEL
+
2 Select a TV channel to record.
CHANNEL
–
The front panel display shows the channel
number:
Channel preset
• While the recorder is stopped, you can
also use the number buttons on the
remote to select the channel (e.g., for
channel 24, press 2, 4 then ENTER).
• If the recorder is stopped, you can also
use the CH +/– buttons on the front
panel to select the channel number.
REC MODE
SHIFT
3 Set the picture quality/
+
recording time.
• See Setting the picture quality/recording
time on page 51 for detailed instructions.