Pioneer DVR-450H-S manual Recording Simultaneous recording and playback Chase Play

Recording

Simultaneous recording and playback (Chase Play)

HDD

Chase Play allows you to watch a recording that is still in progress from the start, without having to wait until the recording has finished (i.e., playback is ‘chasing’ the recording).

In fact, you’re not just limited to watching the recording in progress. You can watch anything else already on the HDD (or on a DVD if you’re recording to the HDD) by selecting it from the Disc Navigator screen (see Using the Disc Navigator with recordable discs and the HDD on page 56).

Chase Play is not possible when DV is the recording input (DVR-650H-S/DVR-550H-S only).

Important

•You can’t use this feature during Auto Start Recording, or in Auto Start Recording standby (the AUTO indicator is lit in the front panel display).

PLAY

• Press during recording to

start playback from the beginning of the current recording1.

	DISC NAVIGATOR
•	Press during recording to

select another title to play.

You can use all the usual playback controls, such as pause, slow-motion play, scan and skip.

• To stop playback, press	STOP
(recording will continue).
• To stop recording, press	STOP REC
(playback will continue).

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•During recording or in timer recording standby, you can’t play an HDD title, DVD or Video CD/Super VCD disc if the Input Line System setting doesn’t match the TV line system of the disc/HDD title (see also Additional information about the TV system settings on page 117). Also, during simultaneous recording and playback, if the TV line system of the playback track/title changes then playback will automatically stop.

Recording from an external component

DVD (VR) DVD (Video) DVD+R DVD+RW DVD-RAM HDD

You can record from an external component, such as a camcorder or VCR, connected to one of the recorder’s external inputs.

1Make sure that the component you want to record from is connected properly to the HDD/DVD recorder. See Chapter 2 (Connecting up) for connection options.

INPUT

2 SELECT Press repeatedly to select one of

the external inputs to record from. There are three analog inputs. The current input is shown on-screen and in the front panel display:

•L1 – INPUT 1/AUTO START REC

•L2 – INPUT 2 (front panel)

•L3 – INPUT 3

Check that the Audio In settings for External Audio, and Dual Mono Recording/Bilingual Recording are as you want them (see Audio In on page 108).

•If the aspect ratio is distorted (squashed or stretched), adjust on the source component or your TV before recording.

Note

1 You can’t start playback immediately after recording starts. Simultaneous playback and recording doesn’t work	47
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