Making Your First Recording - Pioneer DVR-530H-S Operating Instructions Manual

Getting started

Making your first recording

This quick guide shows you how to make a basic
recording of a TV program on either the HDD, or to a
recordable DVD.
Recording is covered in much more detail in chapter 6
(Recording).
STANDBY/ON
HDD
PAUSE
REC STOP REC
DVD RECORDER
OPEN/CLOSE
DVD
CH
PLAY
1 If they aren't already on, switch on your TV and
this recorder.
STANDBY/ON to switch on.
Press
2 Make sure that the video input on your TV is set to this
recorder.Press HDD to record to the HDD, or DVD to
record to a recordable DVD.
• If you choose to record to the HDD, skip to step 5
now.
3 Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray.
4 Load a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW disc with the
label side face-up, using the disc guide to align the
disc.
• When you load a new, blank DVD-RW disc, the
recorder will take a moment to initialize it for
recording.
• Blank DVD-R discs are ready for Video mode
recording out of the box.
5 Use the CH +/– buttons to select the TV channel
you want to record from.
• You can also use the +/– buttons on the front panel if
the recorder is stopped.
• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
6 Press REC to start recording.
• 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.
• You can pause recording by pressing
REC or PAUSE again to restart recording.
Press
7 When you want to stop recording, press
STOP REC.
Playing back your recording
The TV program you just recorded should be on the HDD
or DVD disc as a single title with one or more chapters.
• Press PLAY to start playback.
If you want to stop playback before the end of the
recording, press STOP.
04
PAUSE.
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