Pioneer DVR-920H operating instructions Timer recording FAQ, Simultaneous recording and playback

07Recording

Canceling and stopping a timer recording in progress

After a timer recording has started, you can cancel the program (but continue recording), or stop recording completely if you need to.

REC STOPREC

1 During timer recording, press and hold REC for three seconds.

Only the program is canceled (the timer indicator disappears); recording continues so that you can manually stop recording whenever you like.

2 When you want to stop recording completely, press STOP REC.

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.

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 102), and that there are fewer than 99/999 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.

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.

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).1 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 52).

Note

1 • 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 Input Line System on page 108). Also, during simultaneous recording and playback, if the TV line system of the playback track/title changes then playback will automatically stop.

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