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05Recording

Preventing use of the recorder before a timer recording (child lock)

You can make all the front panel and remote control buttons inoperative using the child lock feature. This is useful when you set a timer recording and want to make sure that the timer settings are not changed before recording has finished.

STANDBY/ON

1 If the recorder is on, switch it into standby.

2 (front panel) Press and hold for three seconds to lock the controls.

The front panel display briefly shows LOCK. If any buttons are pressed on the remote or front panel, LOCK is briefly displayed again.

•To unlock the recorder, press and hold STOP on the front panel (while the recorder is stopped) for three seconds until the display shows UNLOCK.

Timer recording FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

•Even though the timer is set, the recorder doesn’t start recording!

Check that the disc loaded or HDD is recordable, not locked (see Lock Disc on page 103), and that there are fewer than 99/999 titles already on the DVD/HDD.

You can’t enter a timer program if the clock isn’t set.

•What happens when two or more timer programs overlap?

Basically, the program with the earlier recording start time has priority. However, the recorder will start recording the program with the later start time after the earlier program is finished. If two programs have the same times (but different channels, for example), the program set most recently takes priority.

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 57).

PLAY

• Press during recording to start playback from the beginning of the

• The recorder won’t let me enter a timer	current recording1.
program! Why not?

Note

1You can’t start playback immediately after recording starts. Simultaneous playback and recording doesn’t work while copying or backing up.

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