The Initial Setup menu

11

Setting

Options

Explanation

Manual CH Setting

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen if you need to adjust any of the settings

 

 

made by auto tuning. Select your country, then proceed to the manual

 

 

channel setting screen:

 

 

• Change channel presets using the CH +/– buttons.

 

 

• To skip the displayed channel (because there is no station assigned

 

 

to that channel), change the Skip setting to On.

 

 

• Set the CH SYSTEM setting to match the channel system of your

 

 

country or region.

 

 

• Set the CHANNEL setting to the channel you want to assign to the

 

 

current channel preset.

 

 

• To manually fine tune the channel, change the AFT setting to Off

 

 

then adjust the Level setting.

 

 

• The Name field allows you to input a name of up to five characters

 

 

for the current channel preset.

 

 

 

Channel Swapping

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen to swap channel assignments of different

 

 

presets so that you can group together presets that naturally go

 

 

together. Select two presets to swap then press ENTER.

 

 

 

G-Code CH Setting

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen to assign channel numbers to the guide

 

 

channels as necessary. Look in your TV guide to see which channel

 

 

numbers should be assigned to which guide channels. Press ENTER

 

 

when your done to leave this screen.

 

 

 

Video In/Out Settings

 

 

 

 

 

Input Colour System

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen to set the input colour system for each

 

 

channel preset. Use the CH +/– buttons to change the preset. On the

 

 

default Auto setting the recorder can generally correctly detect

 

 

whether the input signal is PAL, SECAM, 3.58 NTSC or PAL-60, but in

 

 

some cases you may have to set it manually if the picture is displayed

 

 

incorrectly.

See also About the input colour system on page 74 for more information on this setting.

Component Video Out

Interlace •

Select if your monitor/TV is not compatible with progressive-scan

 

 

video.

 

 

 

 

Progressive

Select if your monitor/TV is progressive-scan compatible. Check the

 

 

operating instructions that came with your monitor/TV if you’re not

 

 

sure.

 

 

 

NTSC on PAL TV

On

NTSC discs will play correctly on PAL-only TVs.

 

 

 

 

Off •

Use if your TV is already NTSC-compatible.

Many recent PAL TVs are compatible with NTSC input and so this setting can be switched off. Check the operating instructions that came with your TV. See also About NTSC on PAL TV on page 74 for related information.

Audio In Settings

Nicam Select

NICAM •

Record the NICAM audio in a NICAM broadcast.

 

 

 

 

Regular Audio

Record the non-NICAM audio in a NICAM broadcast. (You can still

 

 

switch the audio to record using the AUDIO button before recording.)

 

 

 

Tuner Level

Normal •

Standard setting.

 

 

 

 

Compression

Use if the audio level from the built-in tuner is excessive, causing dis-

 

 

tortion.

 

 

 

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Pioneer DVR-310, DVR-330-S, DVR-7000 manual Initial Setup menu

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