Pioneer DVR-520H, DVR-720H manual Timer recording FAQ, Simultaneous recording and playback

Recording

Preventing use of the recorder before a timer recording (child lock)

You can make all the front panel and remote control buttons inoperative using the child lock feature. This is useful when you set a timer recording and want to make sure that the timer settings are not changed before recording has finished.

1 If the recorder is on, switch it into standby.

2 Press and hold STOP on the front panel for three seconds to lock the controls.

The front panel display briefly shows LOCK. If any buttons are pressed on the remote or front panel, LOCK is briefly displayed again.

• To unlock the recorder, press and hold STOP on the front panel for three seconds until the display shows UNLOCK.

•To cancel a timer recording when the recorder is locked, first unlock the recorder (see above), then press and hold REC for three seconds.

Timer recording FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

•Even though the timer is set, the recorder doesn’t start recording!

Check that the disc loaded or HDD is recordable, not locked (see Lock Disc on page 92), and that there are fewer than 99/250 titles already on the DVD/HDD.

•The recorder won’t let me enter a timer program! Why not?

You can’t enter a timer program if the clock isn’t set.

•What happens when two or more timer programs overlap?

Basically, the program with the earlier recording start time has priority. However, the recorder will start recording the program with the later start time after the earlier program is finished. If two programs have the same times (but different channels, for example), the program set most recently takes priority.

If VPS/PDC is active for two timer programs that are programmed to start at the same time, then the program that actually starts first takes priority.

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Simultaneous recording and playback

VR mode HDD

A feature called Chase Play makes it possible to watch a recording in progress (DVD or HDD) from the start of the recording (as in, playback is ‘chasing’ the recording). For example, perhaps you have to miss the first 30 minutes of a movie on TV; you can start recording, then start watching the movie, from the beginning, while the recorder is still recording 30 minutes ahead of you.

In fact, you’re not just limited to watching the recording in progress; you can watch anything else already on the DVD or HDD by selecting it from the Disc Navigator screen (see Using the Disc Navigator with recordable discs and the HDD on page 37).

Important

•Note that you must use a DVD-RW Ver. 1.1 / 2x or Ver. 1.2 / 4x disc to be able to use this feature.

•You may not be able to use this feature with a DVD-RW disc that was first initialized on another recorder.

• During recording, press PLAY to start playback from the beginning of the current recording, or press DISC NAVIGATOR and select another title to play from there.

You can use all the usual playback controls, such as pause, slow-motion play, scan and skip.

• To stop playback, press	STOP (recording will
continue).
• To stop recording, press	STOP REC (playback will
continue).

Note

•You can’t start playback immediately after recording starts.

•When scanning a DVD, no sound is output if the recorder is also recording the DVD (see Scanning discs on page 38).

•You can’t use this feature during Auto Start Recording, or in Auto Start Recording standby (the AUTO indicator is lit in the front panel display).

•You can’t use simultaneous playback and recording while copying or backing up.

•During recording or in timer recording standby, you can’t play an HDD title, DVD or Video CD/Super VCD disc if the Input Line System setting doesn’t match the TV line system of the disc/HDD title (see also

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