Pioneer DVR-720H Contents, Before you start, Connecting up, Controls and displays, Recording

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 Extra features for use with compatible TVs . . . . . . . . 13 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Using other types of audio/video output . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver . . . . . 16 Connecting an external decoder box (1) . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting an external decoder box (2) . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting to an AV amplifier/receiver . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

06 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 47 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 56 Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . 56 Recording from a DV camcorder

(DVR-520H/720H only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Recording from the DV output

(DVR-520H/720H only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 59 Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

07 Copying and back-up

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 One Touch Copy (HDD to DVD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 One Touch Copy (DVD to HDD) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Copying from HDD to DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 HDD to DVD Copy List menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Recording the Copy List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 HDD to DVD Copy List commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Copying from DVD to HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 DVD to HDD Copy List menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Recording the Copy List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 DVD to HDD Copy List commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Using disc back-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

05 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents

of a disc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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08 Editing

The Disc Navigator screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Disc Navigator menu options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Editing VR mode Original, Video mode and HDD content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Editing HDD groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Creating and editing a VR mode Play List . . . . . . . . . 84

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