Pioneer DVR-510H manual Enter the timer recording settings

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•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.

Timer Recording
Date		Start	Stop	CH	Rec Mode
12/12 TUE		10	00 AM 11 00 AM	24	FINE
Rec to	Group		Recorded Title Name
HDD		GROUP1	Input

3 Enter the timer recording settings.

Use the	(cursor left/right) buttons to select a field;
use the	(cursor up/down) buttons to change the
value.

•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 or EP (See Setting the picture quality/recording time on page 44). If Manual Recording is on, then you can also select the MN setting.

•Rec to – Select HDD for hard disk recording or DVD

for DVD recording. Select HDD for Auto Replace Recording (daily or weekly timer recording only).

•Group – Select a record group (for HDD recording only).

•Recorded Title Name – Optionally, you can enter a name for the recording up to 32 characters.

4After entering all the timer recording information, press ENTER.

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

•The rightmost column in the timer recording screen (Result) 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 you set a DVD timer recording but there is no recordable DVD disc loaded, or the disc loaded doesn’t have enough free space for the complete recording, Recovery is shown. In this case (unless

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you load a suitable disc before the recording actually starts), the recorder will use the HDD for recording. (The message Can’t Rec will appear if there are already 99 titles on the HDD or if there is not enough free space on the HDD for recording.)

•If Optimized Rec (see Optimized Rec on page 96) is set to On, the recorder will adjust the recording quality to try and fit the recording on the disc. If the recording will not fit onto the disc even on MN1 recording quality then the Recovery Recording feature will automatically make the recording to the HDD instead.

•For an HDD timer recording, if there are already 99 titles on the HDD, the message Title Over appears.

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

•6 Hour Over is displayed if a recording over 6 hours is set.

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

Note

•When Optimized Rec is On, Optimized Recording takes priority over Recovery Recording when recording to DVD. In other words, if there’s not enough space on the DVD disc for the recording to complete on the recording quality set, the recorder will first try and adjust the recording quality. If the recorder can’t compensate using a lower recording mode setting, then the HDD is used for Recovery Recording.

•If there is very little free space left on the HDD, an Auto Replace Recording may not complete successfully.

•If the HDD is being used for playback or high-speed copying when an Auto Replace Recording is due to start, the new timer recording will not replace the old one. However, the next time the timer recording starts, both of the older two programs will be erased.

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

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