Pioneer DVR-530H-S, DVR-630H-S manual 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 About the internal hard disk drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

02 Connecting up

Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using other types of video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . 15 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . 16 Connecting to an AV amplifier or receiver. . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 46 Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 48 Initializing a recordable DVD disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

06 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a

disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

07 Copying and back-up

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 One Touch Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Using Copy Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Using disc back-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 32

05 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 37 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 45

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08 Editing

The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Command menu panel options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Editing accuracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 HDD genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

09 Using the Jukebox

Copying CDs to the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Playing music from the Jukebox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Editing Jukebox albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

10 The Photo Viewer

Locating JPEG picture files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Playing a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Importing files to the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Copying files to a DVD-R/RW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Editing files on the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Printing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

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