Pioneer DVR-920H operating instructions Contents

Contents

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

05 Using the GUIDE Plus+™ electronic program guide

The GUIDE Plus+ System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Using GUIDE Plus+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 GUIDE Plus+ FAQ and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . 49

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, satellite receiver or digital terrestrial receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Connecting an external decoder box (1) . . . . . . . . . . 17 Connecting an external decoder box (2) . . . . . . . . . . 18 Connecting to an AV amplifier/receiver . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 About HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Setting up the GUIDE Plus+ system. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Selecting the hard disk or DVD for playback and recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Making your first recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Using the Home Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . 37

06 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents

of a disc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Navigating discs and the HDD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Switching DVD soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

07 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Recording time and picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Setting the picture quality/recording time . . . . . . . . 61 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Setting a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Timer recording FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Simultaneous recording and playback . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . 67 Recording from a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . 69 Initializing a DVD-RW disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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