Table Of Contents - Pioneer DVR-530H-S Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
01 Before you start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What's in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . 9
About the internal hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
02 Connecting up
Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Using other types of video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . 15
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . 16
Connecting to an AV amplifier or receiver. . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
04 Getting started
Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 32
05 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 37
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 45
4
En
Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 46
Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 48
Initializing a recordable DVD disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
06 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a
disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
07 Copying and back-up
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
One Touch Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Using Copy Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using disc back-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
08 Editing
The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Command menu panel options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Editing accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
HDD genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
09 Using the Jukebox
Copying CDs to the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Playing music from the Jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Editing Jukebox albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
10 The Photo Viewer
Locating JPEG picture files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Playing a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Importing files to the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Copying files to a DVD-R/RW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Editing files on the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Printing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86