Pioneer DVR-220 operating instructions Timer recording using the VCR Plus+ programming system

•Each row is for one timer recording program, with the date and time information, channel, recording mode and recording status.

•If there are more than eight timer programs already

•You can also clear a timer program by highlighting it and pressing CLEAR.

2Select ‘New Input’ to set a new timer program, then press ENTER.

Program Set

Ttl Name Input

3 Enter the timer recording settings.

•Date – Choose a date up to one month in advance, or select a daily or weekly program.

•Start – Set the recording start time.

•Stop – Set the recording end time (maximum length of a timer recording is 6 hours).

•CH – Choose a channel (2–69 or 1–125 for antenna or cable channels respectively, excluding skip channels), or one of the external inputs from which to record.

•Mode – Select FINE, SP, LP, EP or AUTO (See Setting the picture quality/recording time on page 43). If Manual Recording is on, then you can also select the MN setting.

•Ttl Name Input – Optionally, you can enter a name for the recording up to 32 characters. (Highlight

Program Set then press (cursor down) to access this option.)

4After entering all the timer recording information, highlight ‘Program set’ and press

ENTER.

The timer recording list screen is displayed again. The timer program you just input appears in the list.

•The rightmost column in the timer recording screen (Confirm) shows whether there’s enough space to record your timer program. If you selected a daily or weekly program, the date of the last recording that will fit on the disc appears (up to a maximum of one month ahead).

•If the timer program is too long to fit into the available disc space, the message Time Over appears. The program will record until the disc is full.

•If Optimized Rec (see Optimized Rec on page 82) is set to On, the recorder will adjust the recording quality to try and fit the recording on the disc. If the program is too long even when recorded in EP (extended play), the message Time Over appears.

•If there are already the maximum number of titles or chapters on the disc, the message Title Over or Data Over appears. (There can be up to 99 titles on a disc.)

•If a timer program overlaps another in the list, the message Overlap appears.

•If no recordable disc is loaded, the message Can’t Rec appears.

•Standby is displayed when the recorder is in timer recording standby.

•Recording is displayed when a timer recording is in progress.

5To exit the timer recording screen, press HOME MENU.

•If you change the Auto Channel Setting (from cable to antenna or the other way around), existing timer programs will be erased.

Timer recording using the VCR Plus+® programming system

This system makes programming timer recordings very simple. Most TV guides publish PlusCode numbers with their program details. If you want to make a timer recording of a program, you just input the corresponding code. The date, start, stop and channel settings are made automatically. All you have to do is tell the recorder the recording mode, and whether it’s a once-only recording or a regular recording.