Pioneer DVR-520H, DVR-720H manual Recording, Standard timer recording

Recording

6Press ENTER to set the end time.

7Select ‘Yes’ to set the timer recording and exit, or ‘No’ to go back to the timer recording screen.

•You can check the timer recording details you just set from the main timer recording screen (see Standard timer recording below).

Note

•You can’t use VPS/PDC with Easy Timer Recording. Use the standard or VIDEO Plus+ timer recording methods if you want to use VPS/PDC.

Standard timer recording

The timer recording screen you can see all the timer programs already set, clear programs and set up new ones.

CLEAR

ENTER

HOME

MENU

PREV NEXT

TIMER REC

1Press TIMER REC to display the Timer Recording screen.

You can also access the Timer Recording screen from the Home Menu (press HOME MENU, select Timer Recording, then Timer Recording (View)).

This screen shows all the timer programs currently set.

Timer Recording
Date	Start	Stop	CH	Mode Rec to		VPS/PDC
MON 13/12	7:00	8:00	Pr 3	FINE	HDD	Off
EVERY TUE	9:00	10:00	Pr 5	FINE	HDD	On
		New Input
	HDD Remain			10h20m(FINE)			1/1
	DVD Remain				0h43m(FINE)

•Each row is for one timer recording program, with the date and time information, channel, recording mode, DVD or HDD and the VPS/PDC setting.

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•The amount of free space available on the HDD and the currently loaded recordable DVD is shown towards the bottom of the screen.

•In the lower-right corner, the number of timer programs already set and the number that use VPS/ PDC, is shown next to Tmr Pgms.

•If there are more than eight timer programs already

set, press NEXT		to switch page (go back using
the PREV	button).

•You can also clear a timer program before it’s started (before the recorder enters timer recording standby) by highlighting it and pressing CLEAR.

2Select ‘New Input’ to set a new timer program, then press ENTER.

Timer Recording
Date	Start	Stop		CH	Rec Mode
12/12 SUN	10 00	--	--	Pr 7	SP
Rec to	Group	VPS/PDC
HDD	GROUP 1	OFF		Program Set

Ttl Name Input

3 Enter the timer recording settings.

Use the	(cursor left/right) buttons to select a field;
use the	(cursor up/down) buttons to change the
value.

•Date – Choose a date up to one month in advance, or select a daily or weekly program.

•Start – Set the recording start time.

•Stop – Set the recording end time (maximum length of a timer recording is 24 hours for HDD recording or six hours for DVD).

•CH – Choose a channel (1–99, excluding skip channels), or one of the external inputs from which to record.

•Mode – Select FINE, SP, LP, EP or AUTO (See Recording time and picture quality on page 46). If Manual Recording is on, then you can also select the MN setting.

•Rec to – Select HDD for hard disk recording or DVD

for DVD recording. Select HDD for Auto Replace Recording (daily or weekly timer recording only).

•Group – Select a record group (for HDD recording only).

•VPS/PDC – The VPS/PDC system automatically adjusts the recording time so that even if a program is not running to schedule you won’t miss it. For VPS/ PDC to work properly, you must input the correct announced time and date of the program you want to record. Up to eight timer recordings can be set with

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