Pioneer DVR-640H-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 video output . . . . . . 17 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting to an AV amplifier or

receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . 21 Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . 28

05 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . 33 Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Setting the picture quality/

recording time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . 35 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Simultaneous recording and playback (Chase Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Recording from an external

component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Automatic recording from a

satellite tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . 48 Playing your recordings on other

DVD players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Initializing recordable DVD discs . . . . . . 52

06 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . 60 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . 63 Switching DVD and DivX soundtracks . . 64 Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Displaying disc information on-screen . . 65

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