Making Your First Recording; Using The Built-In Tv Tuner - Pioneer DVR-310-S Operating Instructions Manual

Getting started
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Making your first recording

This quick guide shows you how to make a basic
recording of a TV program to a recordable DVD.
Recording is covered in much more detail in chapter 6
(Recording).
1 If they aren't already on, switch on your TV and
this recorder.
STANDBY/ON to switch on.
Press
• Make sure that the video input on your TV is set to this
recorder.
2 Press OPEN/CLOSE to eject the disc tray.
3 Load a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW disc with the
label 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.
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STANDBY/ON
OPEN/CLOSE
CHANNEL
PLAY
STOP
REC STOP REC
DVD RECORDER
4 Use the CHANNEL +/– buttons on the remote
control or the SMART JOG on the front panel to
select the TV channel you want to record from.
• Antenna channels are numbered 2 through 69. Cable
channels are numbered 1 through 125.
5 Press REC to start recording.
• By default, the recording will be in SP (standard play)
mode, which will give you around 2 hours of
recording from a blank DVD disc.
• You can pause recording by pressing
REC or PAUSE again to restart recording.
Press
6 When you want to stop recording, press
STOP REC.
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 PLAY to start playback.
If you want to stop playback before the end of the
STOP.
recording, press

Using the built-in TV tuner

Changing TV channels
When no disc is playing, you can change TV channels in
three different ways:
• CHANNEL +/– 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; for channel 102, press 1, 0, 2,
ENTER.
• SMART JOG on the front panel
PAUSE.
CHANNEL
ENTER