Pioneer DVR-630H-S, DVR-530H-S manual Recording, Setting the picture quality/recording time

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Recording equipment and copyright

Recording equipment should be used only for lawful copying and you are advised to check carefully what is lawful copying in the country in which you are making a copy. Copying of copyright material such as films or music is unlawful unless permitted by a legal exception or consented to by the rightowners.

•This product incorporates copyright protection technology that is protected by method claims of certain U.S. patents and other intellectual property rights owned by Macrovision Corporation and other rights owners. Use of this copyright protection technology must be authorized by Macrovision Corporation, and is intended for home and other limited viewing uses only unless otherwise authorized by Macrovision Corporation. Reverse engineering or disassembly is prohibited.

Setting the picture quality/recording time

VR mode Video mode 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 96), a further option will be available (MN1–32, LPCM or XP+, depending on what you set).

See also Recording time and picture quality on page 36 for more information.

REC MODE

The setting is indicated in the front panel display, and shown on-screen together with the recording time for a blank recordable disc. If a recordable disc is loaded, the approximate remaining recording time for that disc is also shown. (Note that if the On Screen Display setting (see On-Screen Display on page 97) is Off then this information is not displayed.)

Basic recording from the TV

VR mode Video mode HDD

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

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PAUSE

REC STOPREC REC MODE

•Press REC MODE repeatedly to select a recording setting.

•XP – High quality

•SP – Standard play

•LP – Long play

•EP – Extended play

•SLP – Super Long play

•SEP – Super Extended play

•MN / LPCM1 / XP+2 – Manual / Linear PCM / XP+ (available only when manual recording is on)

1Press HDD or DVD to record to the hard disk drive or a recordable DVD respectively.

•If you’re recording to DVD, load a recordable disc (if you load a new blank DVD-RW disc, the recorder takes a short while to initialize the disc).

2Use the CH +/– buttons to select the TV channel to record.

The front panel display shows the channel number:

Channel preset

Note

1.Audio is recorded in 16-bit Linear PCM format, video is recorded at XP quality. When recording a bilingual broadcast, select which audio chan- nel to record (see Bilingual Recording on page 94).

2.Applicable only to HDD recording. (If this setting is used when recording to DVD, MN32 is used.) When copied to DVD, XP+ recordings are always copied in real time.

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