Pioneer DVR-3100 operating instructions Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . 8 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . 9

02 Connecting up

Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Extra features for use with compatible TVs . . . . . . . . 13 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using other types of audio/video output . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver . . . . . 16 Connecting an external decoder box (1) . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting an external decoder box (2) . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting to an AV amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 33

05 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Navigating discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Switching the audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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06 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 46 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 53 Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 54 Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 56 Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

07 Editing

The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Disc Navigator menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Editing VR mode Original and Video mode

content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Creating and editing a VR mode Play List . . . . . . . . . 63

08 Disc History

Using the Disc History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

09 The PhotoViewer

Playing a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

10 The Disc Setup menu

Basic settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Initialize settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Finalize settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

11 The Video/Audio Adjust menu

Setting the picture quality for TV and external

inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Setting the picture quality for disc playback . . . . . . . 73 Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Virtual Surround . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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