KiSS Networked Entertainment VR-558 Video Recorder Functions, Setting quality, Easy recording

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We advise you to watch the television through the VR-558. Just use your TV as a picture display while the KiSS VR-558 will be at the center and host all the commands you need to change channels. It will make it easier and quicker to use the recording functions.

Setting quality

Before starting recording we advise you to take a look at our quality settings. To specify the recording quality you will need to choose between:

-Long Play: Records with a medium quality, but doesn't take up so much space on the hard disk.

-High Quality: Records at the highest quality, but takes up more hard disk space.

To set aquality, press MENU on your remote, then go to VIDEO RECORDER FUNCTIONS, then RECORDING QUALITY. You will be asked to choose a quality. Please refer to the chart below for quality settings. Press the LEFT ARROW to exit the list.

Quality Settings Chart

Easy recording

Turn on the Player and select the desired channel with the Up/Down buttons on the remote. Once the desired channel appears on the TV screen, press RECORD on the remote. The content from the TV channel is recorded onto the Hard Disk at the quality previously chosen. When recording is finished, press the STOP button. Pressing RECORD repeately sets a limit on the recording time. If WEB Schedule is enabled and the channel is mapped, the default recording time is automatically set to the end of the program. Press RECORD again to add extra time.

Time Shifting

Time Shifting makes it possible to pause live TV if you need to go away from it for any reason. It allows you to pause the running program and start it again at any given moment. It works by saving the watched TV program on the VR-558's Hard Disk while the television screen is on pause mode. For that you need to watch a TV program through the VR-558. Just press PLAY/PAUSE. The TV will freeze, recording will start in the pre-set quality. Press the PLAY/PAUSE button again to resume watching. You will be able to carry on watching your program while the VR-558 carries on recording. You can navigate through this on-going recording by pressing the FAST FORWARD and REWIND buttons.

-The Quality Chart figures are based on recording on an empty 300GB Hard Disk.

-These figures will change if content is already present on the player’s built-in Hard Disk

-The KiSS VR-558 encodes movies in MPEG-2 format. (.vob files)

-Before recording, check the status of the Hard Disk and scheduled recording by pressing SETUP or MENU. The status appears on the top right hand corner of your screen.

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