Pioneer DVR-440H-S manual Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Putting the batteries in the

remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Using the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Disc / content format playback compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 About the internal hard disk drive . . . . . . 12 Symbols used in this manual . . . . . . . . . 13

02 Connecting up

Rear panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Using other types of audio/video output . 17 Connecting to a cable box, satellite receiver or digital terrestrial receiver . . . . 18 Connecting an external decoder box (1) . 20 Connecting an external decoder box (2) . 21 Connecting to an AV amplifier/receiver . . 22 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . 23 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

05 Using the GUIDE Plus+® electronic program guide

The GUIDE Plus+® system . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the GUIDE Plus+® system . . . . . 37 Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 GUIDE Plus+® FAQ and

troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

06 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . 54 Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Setting the picture quality/recording

time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . 57 Pause Live TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Simultaneous recording and playback (Chase Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Recording from an external

component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Initializing recordable DVD discs . . . . . . 66

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . 29 Setting up the GUIDE Plus+® system . . 32

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07 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Using the Disc Navigator to browse

the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . 74 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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