6 Table of contents

Before you start

Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Table of contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Symbol in this User Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Functional overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Installing batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . . 10 Using a remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 The VCR/DVD recorder switching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Setup menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Display menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Connections

Connection to a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Connection to a cable box or satellite box . . . . .15 Connection to an Audio System. . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Getting started

Easy DVD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Initial setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Channel setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 Getting channels automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Adding/deleting channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Guide channel setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Selecting the TV stereo or SAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Setting the clock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Auto Clock Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Manual Clock Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting the Daylight Saving Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Selecting the TV aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Recording

Information on DVD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Recordable disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Recording mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Making discs playable in other DVD player (Finalize/Make Edits Compatible) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Before recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Replacing disc menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Setting for Auto Chapter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Basic recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 One-touch Timer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Timer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Hints for Timer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 The priority of overlapped settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Timer recording using VCR Plus+® system. . . . .37 Overwriting an existing title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Overwriting from the beginning of the title . . . . . . . . 38 Overwriting in the middle of the title. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Hints for Overwriting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Settings for an external source. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Connection to an external source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Recording from an external source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

DV dubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Guide to DV and On-Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 DVC to DVD dubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 DVC to VCR dubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting a disc to protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Playing the discs in other DVD players . . . . . . . .46 Finalizing a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Auto finalizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Dubbing Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Playing discs

Information on DVD play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Basic playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Playing MP3, Windows Media™ Audio, JPEG disc. . . 55 Playing back a DivX® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Playing discs using the disc menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Playing discs using the title menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Pause. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Special playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Resume play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Fast forward / Fast reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Skipping TV commercials during play . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Rapid play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Step by step playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Slow forward / Slow reverse play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Marker Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Title/Chapter search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Track search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Time search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Repeat/Random/Program playback/Slide Show. . .66 Repeat playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Random playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Program playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

DivX® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 DivX® VOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 DivX® Subtitle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Selecting the format of audio and video . . . . . . .69 Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Switching audio soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Switching virtual surround system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Reducing block noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Editing

Information on disc editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 Guide to a title list. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Editing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Editing discs (Setup menu). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Editing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Deleting titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Putting names on titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Setting chapter marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Clearing chapter marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Hiding chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Setting pictures for thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Dividing a title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Editing discs (Setup menu) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Putting name on disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Setting or releasing disc protect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Erasing disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Making edits compatible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Changing the Setup menu

Tour of the Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85 Language setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 Display setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Audio setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Video setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Settings for Parental lock level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 Settings for PBC (Playback Control) . . . . . . . . . .92

VCR functions

Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93

Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Recording and One-touch Timer Recording . . . .93

Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

One-touch Timer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94

Time search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Index search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Other operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95

Others

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96 RF output switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Language code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Limited warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103

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DVDR3435V/37 specifications

The Philips DVDR3435V/37 is a versatile and robust device that combines the capabilities of a DVD recorder with a VCR. This innovative model is designed for those who seek to preserve their favorite shows and movies, providing an easy-to-use solution for capturing and archiving media.

One of the standout features of the DVDR3435V/37 is its dual-format recording capability. Users can effortlessly record video content onto both DVD-R and DVD-RW discs, offering flexibility in choosing the best format for their needs. This dual functionality ensures compatibility with a wide range of DVD players and devices.

The advanced One-Touch Record feature allows users to quickly initiate recording with a single press of a button, making it incredibly user-friendly. Additionally, the model boasts a built-in TV tuner, enabling users to directly record from their favorite television programs without the need for additional equipment. This all-in-one functionality streamlines the recording process, making it more accessible.

Equipped with various recording speeds, including SP (Standard Play) and LP (Long Play), the DVDR3435V/37 offers various options for recording durations. This adaptability allows users to choose between higher quality recordings for short-term projects and longer recordings for extended content, which is ideal for capturing full seasons of shows or lengthy films.

Another notable technology featured in the DVDR3435V/37 is its TimeShift feature. This function allows users to pause live TV and continue watching from where they left off, making it easier to manage viewing schedules. Moreover, the device supports a variety of media formats, allowing for playback of not just DVDs, but also CDs and VCDs, enhancing its versatility.

For connectivity, the Philips DVDR3435V/37 is equipped with composite, S-video, and audio-out connections, ensuring the ability to link the device easily to different setups and home theater systems. This wide range of connectivity options ensures compatibility with various televisions and audio equipment, providing a seamless user experience.

With a sleek design, user-friendly interface, and a focus on functionality, the Philips DVDR3435V/37 is an excellent choice for home entertainment enthusiasts. Its combination of recording flexibility, ease of use, and multimedia support makes it a valuable addition to any home media setup.
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