Using The Built-In Tv Tuner - Pioneer DVR-540H-S Operating Instructions Manual

05
Recording

Using the built-in TV tuner

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.
CHANNEL
+
CHANNEL +/– buttons
•
CHANNEL
–
ABC DEF
GHI JKL MNO
PQRS TUV WXYZ
• Number buttons
For example, to select channel 4, press 4
then ENTER; for channel 34, press 3, 4,
1
ENTER.
• CH +/– buttons on the front panel
Changing cable channels
When a cable box is connected, you can use
the remote to change cable channels (up to
999).
If your cable box is connected to the RF
antenna input on this recorder:
CHANNEL
+
• Use
CHANNEL
–
cable channel.
In this case, you can't change the channel of
the built-in tuner.
If your cable box is connected to a set of AV
inputs:
INPUT SELECT
1 Select the cable box input.
Note
1 Antenna channels are numbered 2 through 69. Cable channels are numbered 1 through 125.
36
En
ABC DEF
GHI JKL MNO
PQRS TUV WXYZ
or Change the
CHANNEL
+
GHI
PQRS
2 Use or
CHANNEL
–
cable channel.
Changing audio channels
Some TV programs are broadcast with both
a main and a Second Audio Program (SAP).
You can change the TV audio using the
AUDIO button.
AUDIO
• Press to change the audio type.
The current audio channel is displayed on-
screen.
Mono
Stereo
• If SAP is selected, but there is no SAP
channel being broadcast, you will still
hear the main audio channel.
• If the sound is poor quality when set to
Stereo, you can often improve it by
changing to Mono.
Note
• When recording to the HDD with HDD
Recording Format set to Video Mode On,
to DVD in Video mode, or on the LPCM
setting, only one channel of a dual mono
broadcast is recorded. In this case,
decide which language you want to
record before recording by setting the
Dual Mono Recording setting (see Dual
Mono Recording on page 111).
ABC DEF
JKL MNO
TUV WXYZ
to change the
SAP