Before You Start; Electronic Programme Guide; Getting Started - Pioneer DVR-550H-S Operating Instructions Manual

Contents

01 Before you start

What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Putting the batteries in the
remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Using the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Disc/content format playback
compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About the internal hard disk drive . . . . . . 12
Symbols used in this manual . . . . . . . . . 13
02 Connections
Rear panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using other types of audio/
video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting to a cable box, satellite receiver
or digital terrestrial receiver. . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting an external
decoder box (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting an external
decoder box (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting to an AV amplifier/
receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . 22
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting up the GUIDE Plus+®
system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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The GUIDE Plus+® system . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the GUIDE Plus+® system . . . . . 34
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
GUIDE Plus+® FAQ and
troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . 50
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting the picture quality/
recording time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . 52
Pause Live TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Simultaneous recording and playback
(Chase Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Recording from an external
component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Playing your recordings on other DVD
players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Initializing recordable DVD discs . . . . . . 61
DVD-RW Auto Initialize. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
07 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the
contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . 69
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69