Using The Built-In Tv Tuner - Pioneer DVR-230-S Operating Instructions Manual

Getting started
• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
Press ì REC to start recording.
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• 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. The different
recording mode and their recommended uses are
covered in mode detail in Chapter 6.
• You can pause recording by pressing .
Press ì REC or
again to restart recording.
6 When you want to stop recording, press
Playing back your recording
The TV program you just recorded should be on the DVD
disc as a single title with one or more chapters.
• Press to start playback.
If you want to stop playback before the end of the
recording, press .

Using the built-in TV tuner

Changing TV channels
There are three different ways to select TV channels. Note
that you can't change the TV channel during playback,
recording or during recording standby.
1
4
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• CH +/– buttons on the remote
• Number buttons on the remote – For example, to
select channel 4, press 4 then ENTER; for channel 34,
press 3, 4, ENTER. (If you don't press ENTER, the
channel changes after a few seconds.)
• +/– buttons on the front panel
Note
• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
.
2 3
5 6
8 9 0
CH+
ENTER
CH–
Changing audio channels
You can change the audio channel of the broadcast or
external input signal.
AUDIO
• Press AUDIO to change the audio.
The current audio channel is displayed on-screen.
• If the NICAM audio setting (see Audio In on page 52)
is set to NICAM and you are watching a NICAM
broadcast, you can switch between NICAM and
Regular (non-NICAM) audio.
Regular
• If the NICAM broadcast is bilingual, you can also
select the language.
NICAM A
Regular
• You can also select the language for a non-NICAM
bilingual broadcast.
A (L)
A + B (L+R)
• When watching a recording made from an external
input with Bilingual recording selected (see Audio In
on page 52), you can switch the audio channel
between left (L), right (R) or both (L+R).
L
Note
• When recording in Video mode, or in VR mode using
the XP setting, only one channel of a bilingual
broadcast is recorded. In this case, decide which
language you want to record before recording by
setting the Bilingual Recording setting (see Audio In
on page 52).
NICAM
NICAM B
NICAM A+B
B (R)
R
L+R
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