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

Contents
01 Before you start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . 10
General disc compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
DVD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
CD-R/RW compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Compressed audio compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
WMA (Windows Media Audio) compatibility . . . . . 11
JPEG file compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
About the internal hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
02 Connecting up
Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using other types of video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . 16
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . 17
Connecting to an AV amplifier or receiver. . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting a VCR or analog camcorder . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
04 Getting started
Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Other settings you can make . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Playing back your recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Changing TV channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Changing audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Playing DVD discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Playing from the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Playing CDs and WMA/MP3 discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing Video CD/Super VCDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4
En
Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 32
05 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Disc Navigator with playback-only
discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Disc Navigator with recordable discs
and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Changing the thumbnail picture for a title . . . . . . . 36
Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Search Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
A-B Repeat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Repeat play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Program play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
CPRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Recording equipment and copyright . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 46
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Easy Timer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Standard timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Timer recording using the VCR Plus+®
programming system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
VCR Plus+ programming with the power off . . . . . 51
Extending a timer recording in progress . . . . . . . . 52
Canceling and stopping a timer recording in
progress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Preventing use of the recorder before a timer
recording (child lock) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 53