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05Recording

Using the built-in TV tuner

There are three different ways to select TV channels. Note that you can’t change the TV channel during playback, recording or during recording standby.

decide which language you want to record before recording by setting the Dual Mono Recording setting (see Dual Mono Recording on page 107).

Setting the picture quality/ recording time

•CH +/– buttons

ABC DEF

GHI JKL MNO

PQRS TUV WXYZ

• CLEARCLEAR Number buttons

For example, to select channel 4, press 4 then ENTER; for channel 34, press 3, 4,

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• CH +/– buttons on the front panel

Changing audio channels

Some TV programmes are broadcast with both a main and a Secondary Audio Programme (SAP). You can change the TV audio using the AUDIO button.

•AUDIO Press to change the audio type. The current audio channel is displayed on- screen.

Mono SAP

Stereo

•If SAP is selected, but there is no SAP channel being broadcast, you will still hear the main audio channel.

•If the sound is poor quality when set to Stereo, you can often improve it by changing to Mono.

Note

•When recording to the HDD with HDD Recording Format set to Video Mode On, to DVD in Video mode, or on the LPCM setting, only one channel of a dual mono broadcast is recorded. In this case,

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

Before starting a recording, you will usually want to set the picture quality/recording time. There are six standard settings available, which allow you to choose a balance between picture quality and recording time.

When Manual Recording is set to On (see Manual Recording on page 109), a further option will be available (MN1 to MN32, LPCM, or XP+ (a super-high quality HDD recording mode that features a transfer rate of around 15 Mbps) depending on what you set).

When recording to DVD, MN32 is the highest recording quality available. If you select XP+, the recording mode will automatically revert to MN32.

When recording to DVD+R/+RW, SLP is the longest recording time available. If you select SEP or MN1 to MN3, the recording mode will automatically revert to SLP.

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•Press repeatedly to select the recording quality.

•XP – High quality setting, gives about one hour of recording time on a DVD disc.

•SP (Standard Play) – Default quality, used for most applications, gives about two hours of recording time on a DVD.

•LP (Long Play) – Lower video quality than SP, but doubles the recording time on a DVD to about four hours.