Pioneer RCS-606H, RCS-505H, RCS-404H manual Recording Pause Live TV Setting a timer recording

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Pause Live TV	Setting a timer recording
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The Pause Live TV feature lets you effectively pause a TV program you’re watching. When you’re ready to resume watching, just press the Play button.

To use this feature the recorder must be connected to your TV using a SCART cable, and the AV Link setting (page 134) should be set to This Recorder Only.

Not all TVs support this feature. Check the instructions that came with your TV if you’re not sure.

Important

•Pause Live TV will not work as expected when watching TV via an external component such as a VCR or digital tuner. It only works with the channel selected on the TV.

PAUSE

1 LIVE TV Start recording the current TV channel.

Recording continues with playback paused.

•Note that it may take up to 10 seconds for recording to start.

	PLAY
2	Press to start playback.
You can also use the scan buttons (		), pause (

PAUSE) and stop ( STOP)—all without affecting the recording.

	STOP REC
3	Press to stop the recording.

Tip

•You can press PAUSE LIVE TV while the recorder is in standby to switch on and immediately start recording. After pressing PAUSE LIVE TV, it will take at least 10 seconds for the picture to change (during this time, all controls except the power button are inoperative).

•Please note that you can’t record from another component (VCR, etc.) that is connected by a SCART cable to the AV2/(INPUT 1/DECODER) connector using the Pause Live TV feature.

Using the timer recording features you can program up to 32 timer recordings up to a month in advance. Timer recording programs can be set to record just once, every day, or every week.

There are two ways to program a timer recording; using the GUIDE Plus+ system (see The Schedule Area on page 68) or using the Easy Timer Recording feature (see Easy Timer Recording below).

You can set the recording quality for your timer recording in the same way as for a regular recording, but with the added option of an AUTO mode, which maximizes the recording quality for the space available on the disc (if recording to DVD), or to fit on to a blank DVD disc (if recording to HDD).

You can set timer recordings to record to a recordable DVD or to the hard disk drive. For regular (daily or weekly) HDD timer recordings that you don’t need to keep, you can use the Auto Replace Recording feature to automatically replace the previous timer recording with the new one. Note that when you use this feature, the previous recording made on that timer program will be replaced by the next one, regardless of whether you have watched it yet or not.

You can also set the recorder so that it will adjust the recording quality to try and fit the recording on to the disc if it would not otherwise fit at the recording quality you set (see Optimized Rec on page 132 for more on this).

Finally, if you set a timer recording to record to DVD but there isn’t a recordable DVD loaded at the time of the recording, the Recovery Recording feature will automatically record the program to the HDD for you.

This recorder is compatible with VPS (Video Programming System) and PDC (Program Delivery Control) systems used by many TV stations to ensure that a timer recording catches the whole program even when the program is not running to schedule. Up to eight timer programs can be set with VPS/PDC on.

Important

•A timer recording can’t be set if there are already 32 timer programs waiting to be recorded.

•Timer recording will not start if:

–The recorder is already recording.

–A disc is being initialized, finalized or unfinalized.

•Timer recording will start when the operation preventing timer recording has finished.

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