Using The Built-In Tv Tuner; Setting The Picture Quality/ Recording Time - Pioneer DVR-650H-S Operating Instructions Manual

Recording
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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.
CH
• CH +/– buttons
ABC DEF
GHI JKL MNO
PQRS TUV WXYZ
• Number buttons
CLEAR
CLEAR
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 audio channels
Some TV programmes are broadcast with
both a main and a Secondary Audio
Programme (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.
• 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,
Note
36
1 Antenna channels are numbered 2 through 69. Cable channels are numbered 1 through 125.
En
Mono SAP
Stereo
decide which language you want to
record before recording by setting the
Dual Mono Recording setting (see Dual
Mono Recording on page 107).
Setting the picture quality/
recording time
DVD (VR) DVD (Video) DVD+R DVD+RW DVD-RAM HDD
Before starting a recording, you will usually
want to set the picture quality/recording
time. There are six standard settings
available, which allow you to choose a
balance between picture quality and
recording time.
When Manual Recording is set to On (see
Manual Recording on page 109), a further
option will be available (MN1 to MN32,
LPCM, or XP+ (a super-high quality HDD
recording mode that features a transfer rate
of around 15 Mbps) depending on what you
set).
When recording to DVD, MN32 is the
highest recording quality available. If you
select XP+, the recording mode will
automatically revert to MN32.
When recording to DVD+R/+RW, SLP is the
longest recording time available. If you
select SEP or MN1 to MN3, the recording
mode will automatically revert to SLP.
REC MODE
• Press repeatedly to select the
recording quality.
• XP – High quality setting, gives about
one hour of recording time on a DVD
disc.
• SP (Standard Play) – Default quality,
used for most applications, gives about
two hours of recording time on a DVD.
• LP (Long Play) – Lower video quality than
SP, but doubles the recording time on a
DVD to about four hours.