Pioneer DVR-3100 Using the built-in TV tuner, Playing back your recording, Changing TV channels

Getting started

•If the recorder is connected to your TV using a SCART cable and your TV supports Direct Recording, you can use this to very simply start recording the TV channel you’re currently watching. See Direct recording from TV on page 48 for detailed instructions.

5 Press REC to start recording.

•By default, the recording will be in SP (standard play) mode, which will give you around 2 hours of recording from a blank DVD disc.

• You can pause recording by pressing PAUSE. Press REC or PAUSE again to restart recording.

6When you want to stop recording, press

STOP REC.

Playing back your recording

The TV program you just recorded should be on the DVD disc as a single title with one or more chapters.

• Press PLAY to start playback.

If you want to stop playback before the end of the recording, press STOP.

Using the built-in TV tuner

Changing TV channels

When no disc is playing, you can change TV channels in three different ways:

CHANNEL

ENTER

•CHANNEL +/– buttons on the remote

•Number buttons on the remote – For example, to select channel 4, press 4 then ENTER; for channel 34, press 3, 4, ENTER.

•SMART JOG on the front panel

Note

•Channel presets are numbered 1–99.

•You can’t change TV channels during playback or recording, or while in recording standby.

Changing audio channels

You can change the audio channel of the broadcast or external input signal.

AUDIO

•Press AUDIO to change the audio.

The current audio channel is displayed on-screen.

•If the NICAM audio setting (see NICAM Select on page 81) is set to NICAM and you are watching a NICAM broadcast, you can switch between NICAM and Regular (non-NICAM) audio.

NICAM

Regular

•If the NICAM broadcast is bilingual, you can also select the language.

NICAM A		NICAM B
Regular	NICAM A+B

You can also select the language for a non-NICAM bilingual

broadcast.

A (L) B (R)

A+ B (L+R)

•When watching a recording made from an external input with Bilingual recording selected (see External Audio on page 81), you can switch the audio channel between left (L), right (R) or both (L+R).

LR

L+R

Note

•If a Video mode disc is loaded, or if the recording mode is FINE/MN32, only one channel of a bilingual broadcast is recorded. In this case, decide which language you want to record before recording by setting the Bilingual Recording setting (see Bilingual Recording on page 82).

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