Philips DVDR 725H/05 manual Introduction, Convenience of watching

Introduction

Convenience of watching

Watching DVD discs

Your 'DVDR 725H/05' plays back DVDs, Audio and (S)Video CDs, and MP3 CDs. You can play back and edit the stored TV shows (or camcorder recordings), and save (archive) these on DVD+RW, DVD+R media for later viewing.

Watching TV via HDD

But your 'DVDR 725H/05' is more than just an ordinary DVD recorder with a built-in hard disk.

From now on, you can use your TV as a monitor and tune to the TV channels on this DVD recorder, taking advantage of features like FlexTime, Instant Replay, or the abitity to pause live TV.

Flextime

With FlexTime, you can watch or rewind a TV show while it is being recorded.

You don't have to wait until the end of the recording before starting playback see chapter 'Recording on the HDD'.

Instant replay/skip

You can repeat a scene of a live TV show at the touch of a button, as often as you like. You can also skip a scene of a live TV show with the touch of a button.

Pause live TV

You can pause a live TV show by pressing a button, to answer a phone call, while recording continues. You can resume playback of the show at the point it was interrupted.

Easy navigation

To navigate through the stored content you can choose from various possibilities.

The Disc Manager

This is an integrated database in the DVD recorder that remembers the recordings on DVD+RW, DVD+R discs made by this DVD recorder. This gives you a complete overview of your entire video collection at the touch of a button and an easy access to every recording.

Welcome to the growing family of owners of PHILIPS equipment.

Thank you for buying a DVDR 725H/05. The following pages explain the main features to help you understand how the DVDR 725H/05 works.

You will find step-by-step descriptions of each function in the respective chapter of the User manual.

Time Shift Buffer

As soon as you turn on your DVD recorder, it starts recording from the current TV channel into the Time Shift Buffer. The DVD recorder stores all the TV shows you watched since you turned on the recorder. If information is available from the GUIDE Plus+® system, the recorder will store the title and mark the beginning of the TV show.

The Time Shift Buffer can be best compared to a conveyor belt running from right to left. A TV show resembles a package on this conveyor belt. If you change the programme number or the GUIDE Plus+® system detects the start of a TV show, a new package will be placed on the conveyor belt. You can adjust the time a package will remain on the conveyor belt from 1 to 6 hours (the factory setting is 3 hours).

As long as the packages are still on the conveyor belt, you can mark them or remove the marker. You can only mark the package that's directly in front of you.

At the end of the conveyor belt (the preset time has expired), the recorder will decide whether a package will be stored or destroyed. Only the packages that are marked will be stored.

If you flush the Time Shift Buffer, the recorder will immediately remove all packages from the belt, storing only those you marked.

Simultaneous recording and playback

Thanks to the built-in HDD and the high data rates it can achieve, you can record and play back at the same time.

This enables you to:

•watch, pause, or rewind a TV show while it is being recorded (FlexTime, Pause live TV)

•watch a TV show stored on the HDD while another recording is being made

•playback an optical disc (DVD, CD with audio, video, mp3 content,...) while the HDD records a TV show

•transfer (archive) a TV show from the HDD to a DVD+RW, DVD+R while another show is being recorded on the HDD.

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