Table Of Contents - Pioneer DVR-920H Operating Instructions Manual

Contents
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 using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
03 Controls and displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
04 Getting started
Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting up the GUIDE Plus+ system. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and
recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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05 Using the GUIDE Plus+™ electronic
program guide
The GUIDE Plus+ System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Using GUIDE Plus+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
GUIDE Plus+ FAQ and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . 49
06 Playback
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents
of a disc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
07 Recording
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 61
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 67
Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 69
Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70