The Initial Setup menu

 

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Setting

Options

Explanation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auto Channel

Antenna •

Select if you receive channels from an antenna. It

Setting

 

takes a few moments for the auto tuning to

(Taiwan and

 

complete.

 

 

Philippines model)

 

 

 

 

Cable

Select if you receive channels via cable. It takes a few

 

 

 

moments for the auto tuning to complete.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Auto Channel

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen, select your country, then

Setting

 

wait for automatic tuning to complete. The channel

(Other)

 

mapping screen should appear when the recorder is

 

 

set up. Press ENTER to exit this screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

PREV /

 

 

NEXT 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 (except Taiwan and Philippines model).

Set the Channel setting to the channel you want to assign to the current channel preset (except Taiwan and Philippines model).

To manually fine tune the channel, change the AFT setting to Off then adjust the Level setting.

Set the Sound System setting to match the sound system of your region (except Taiwan and Philippines model).

The Name field allows you to input a name of up to five characters for the current channel preset (except Taiwan and Philippines model).

Channel Swapping

Next Screen

Proceed to the next screen to swap channel

(except Taiwan and

 

assignments of different presets so that you can

Philippines model)

 

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.

 

 

 

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Pioneer DVR-450H-S manual Initial Setup menu

DVR-450H-S specifications

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