Table Of Contents - Pioneer DVR530 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
Extra features for use with compatible TVs . . . . . . . . 13
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using other types of audio/video output . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting to a cable box, satellite receiver or
digital terrestrial receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Connecting an external decoder box (1) . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting an external decoder box (2) . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting to an AV amplifier/receiver . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
04 Getting started
Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Setting up the GUIDE Plus+™ system . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 35
05 Using the GUIDE Plus+™ electronic
program guide
The GUIDE Plus+™ system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the GUIDE Plus+™ system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
GUIDE Plus+™ FAQ and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . 47
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06 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 51
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 57
Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 59
Initializing a recordable DVD disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
07 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
08 Copying and back-up
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
One Touch Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Using Copy Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Using disc back-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
09 Editing
The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Command menu panel options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Editing accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
HDD genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
10 Using the Jukebox
Copying CDs to the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Playing music from the Jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Editing Jukebox albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91