NEC NDR50 owner manual Basic Recording Basic Recording from a TV, Instant Timer Recording

Basic Recording

Basic Recording from a TV

Follow the instructions below to record a TV program. Recording starts immediately and continues until the disc is full or you stop the recording.

Switch on the recorder and load a recordable disc.

1 Also make sure that the TV input is set to this recorder. If you load a completely blank disc, the recorder takes a short while to initialize the disc.

2REC MODE repeatedly. (HQ, SQ, LQ, EQ)

HQ; High Quality, SQ; Standard Quality, LQ: Low Quality,

EQ: Extended QualitySet a recording mode as necessary by pressing

3 Use v / V buttons to select the TV channel to record.

Changing TV Audio Channel

You can select the audio channel (language) to listen by pressing AUDIO during viewing TV program. The cur- rent audio channel is displayed on-screen.

Stereo or mono broadcat: Stereo → Left → Right

Bilingual broadcat: Main+Sub → Main → Sub

•For TV recording with bilingual, set audio channel from the TV Rec Audio in sub-menu of the Setup menu (see page 26).

•If the sound is of poor quality when set to Stereo, you can often improve it by changing to Mono (Left or Right).

•This recorder can record either NICAM or regular audio. If the NICAM setting (page 20) is set to Auto, then if the broadcast is NICAM, the audio automati- cally changes to NICAM and you can record the NICAM audio. If the broadcast is non-NICAM, the reg- ular audio is always recorded.

If NICAM sound distortion occurs, due to poor recep- tion, you can switch off NICAM setting of the program.

4Recording will start. (The REC indicator lights in the display window.)Press REC (z) once.

Recording continues until you press STOP (x) or the disc is full.

To record for a fixed length of time, see Instant Timer Recording on right.

5Press STOP (x) to stop recording.

To Pause the Recording

1Press PAUSE/STEP (X) to pause the disc during recording.

2When you want to continue recording, press PAUSE/STEP (X).

To record one TV program while watching another

Using the TV, select the channel to be viewed during recording.

Instant Timer Recording

Instant Timer Recording allows you to make a recording easily of a preset length without using the program timer.

1	Follow steps	1-4 as shown left (Basic Recording
	from a TV).

2ing time length.

Recording starts after the first press. Each subse- quent press increases the recording time by 10 minutes within free space.

The recording time is displayed on the TV screen.

At the end of the recording, the DVD Recorder will stop recording and shut off.Press REC (z) repeatedly to select the record-

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Instant Timer Record Menu

Checking the Recording Time

Press REC (z) once to check the recording time. The recalled setting will automatically return to the TV screen for a moment.

Also, remaining time of recording is shown in the dis- play window.

To Extend the Recording Time

The recording time can be extended anytime by press- ing REC (z).

Each subsequent press increases the recording time by 10 minutes within free space.

Caution

If the recorder is unplugged (or there is a power failure) while the recorder is recording, the recording will be lost.

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