Getting started Making your first recording

04Getting started

Making your first recording

This quick guide shows you how to make a basic recording of a TV program on either the HDD, or to a recordable DVD.

Recording is covered in much more detail in chapter 6 (Recording).

STANDBY/ON

OPEN/CLOSE

HDD DVD

CHANNEL

PLAY

STOP

REC STOPREC

1If they aren’t already on, switch on your TV and this recorder.

Press STANDBY/ON to switch on.

•Make sure that the video input on your TV is set to this recorder.

2Press HDD to record to the HDD, or DVD to record to a recordable DVD.

If you choose to record to the HDD, skip to step 5 now.

3 Press OPEN/CLOSE to open the disc tray.

4Load a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW disc with the label side face-up, using the disc guide to align the disc.

•When you load a new, blank DVD-RW disc, the recorder will take a moment to initialize it for recording.

5Use the CHANNEL +/– buttons to select the TV channel you want to record from.

•You can also use the +/– buttons on the front panel if the recorder is stopped.

•Antenna channels are numbered 2 through 69. Cable channels are numbered 1 through 125.

6 Press REC to start recording.

•By default, the recording will be in SP (standard play) mode, which will give you around two hours of recording from a blank DVD disc.

• You can pause recording by pressing PAUSE. Press REC or PAUSE again to restart recording.

7When you want to stop recording, press

STOP REC.

Playing back your recording

The TV program you just recorded should be on the HDD or DVD disc as a single title with one or more chapters.

• Press PLAY to start playback.

If you want to stop playback before the end of the recording, press STOP.

Using the built-in TV tuner

Changing TV channels

There are three different ways to select TV channels. Note that you can’t change the TV channel during playback, recording or during recording standby.

CHANNEL

ENTER

•CHANNEL +/– buttons on the remote

•Number buttons on the remote – For example, to select channel 4, press 4 then ENTER; for channel 34, press 3, 4, ENTER; for channel 102, press 1, 0, 2,

ENTER.

•+/– buttons on the front panel

Note