Pioneer DVR-720H, DVR-520H manual Making your first recording, Playing back your recording

04Getting started

Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and recording

The HDD and DVD buttons (remote control and front panel) are used to select the hard disk (HDD) or DVD for playback and recording. The indicator in the front panel display shows which is currently selected.

HDD DVD

Making your first recording

This quick guide shows you how to make a basic recording of a TV program on either the HDD, or to a recordable DVD.

Recording is covered in much more detail in chapter 6 (Recording).

STANDBY/ON OPEN/CLOSE

HDD DVD

CHANNEL

PLAY

STOP

REC STOPREC

DVD RECORDER

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1If they aren’t already on, switch on your TV and this recorder.

Press STANDBY/ON to switch on.

•Make sure that the video input on your TV is set to this recorder.

2Press HDD to record to the HDD, or DVD to record to a recordable DVD.

If you choose to record to the HDD, skip to step 5 now.

3 Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray.

4Load a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW disc with the label side face-up, using the disc guide to align the disc.

•When you load a new, blank DVD-RW disc, the recorder will take a moment to initialize it for recording.

5Use the CHANNEL +/– buttons to select the TV channel you want to record from.

•You can also use the +/– buttons on the front panel if the recorder is stopped.

•Channel presets are numbered 1–99.

•If the recorder is connected to your TV using a SCART cable and your TV supports Direct Recording, it’s possible to quickly start recording whatever channel your TV is tuned to. See Direct recording from TV on page 48 for detailed instructions.

6 Press REC to start recording.

•By default, the recording will be in SP (standard play) mode, which will give you around two hours of recording from a blank DVD disc.

• You can pause recording by pressing PAUSE. Press REC or PAUSE again to restart recording.

7When you want to stop recording, press

STOP REC.

Playing back your recording

The TV program you just recorded should be on the HDD or DVD disc as a single title with one or more chapters.

• Press PLAY to start playback.

If you want to stop playback before the end of the recording, press STOP.

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