06Recording

Standard timer recording

The timer recording screen you can see all the timer programs already set, clear programs and set up new ones.

CLEAR

ENTER

RETURN

PREV NEXT

TIMER REC

1Press TIMER REC to display the Timer Recording screen.

You can also access the Timer Recording screen from the Home Menu (press HOME MENU, select Timer Recording, then Timer Recording (View)).

This screen shows all the timer programs currently set.

Timer Recording

 

 

 

 

Date

Start

Stop

CH

Mode

VPS/PDC

WED 13/12

7:00

8:00

Pr 3

SP

Off

 

 

New Input

 

 

DVD Remain

1h00m(FINE)

1/1

 

The amount of free space available on the currently loaded recordable DVD is shown towards the bottom of the screen.

In the lower-right corner, the number of timer programs already set and the number that use VPS/ PDC, is shown.

Each row is for one timer recording program, with the date and time information, frequency, channel, recording mode and the VPS/PDC setting.

If there are more than eight timer programs already

set, press NEXT

to switch page (go back using

the PREV

button).

You can also clear a timer program by highlighting it and pressing CLEAR.

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2Select ‘New Input’ to set a new timer program, then press ENTER.

Timer Recording

 

 

 

Date

Start

Stop

CH

Rec Mode

TUE 12/12

10 00

11 00

Pr 7

SP

VPS/PDC

Recorded Title Name

 

 

OFF

Input

 

 

 

3 Enter the timer recording settings.

Use the

(cursor left/right) buttons to select a field;

use the

(cursor up/down) buttons to change the

value.

 

Date – Choose a date up to one month in advance, or select a daily or weekly program.

Start – Set the recording start time.

Stop – Set the recording end time (maximum length of a timer recording is 6 hours).

CH – Choose a channel (1–99, excluding skip channels), or one of the external inputs from which to record.

Mode – Select FINE, SP, LP or EP (See Setting the picture quality/recording time on page 46). If Manual Recording is on, then you can also select the MN setting.

VPS/PDC – The VPS/PDC system automatically adjusts the recording time so that even if a program is not running to schedule you won’t miss it. For VPS/ PDC to work properly, you must input the correct announced time and date of the program you want to record.

Note that VPS/PDC may not work with every station and that Optimized Recording will not work if VPS/ PDC is on.

Recorded Title Name – Optionally, you can enter a name for the recording up to 32 characters.

4After entering all the timer recording information, press ENTER.

The main timer recording screen is displayed again. The timer program you just input appears in the list.

If Optimized Rec (see Optimized Rec on page 86) is set to On (and VPS/PDC is off), the recorder will adjust the recording quality to try and fit the recording on the disc.

5To exit the timer recording screen, press HOME MENU.

If you set the timer recording to use VPS/PDC, you must switch the recorder into standby before the timer recording is due to start for it to work correctly. For non-VPS/PDC timer recordings there is no need to switch the recorder into standby.

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Pioneer DVR-3100 operating instructions Standard timer recording, Press Timer REC to display the Timer Recording screen