Recording
Stopping a timer recording
| STOP REC |
1 | Press during a timer recording. |
| ENTER |
2 | Select ‘Yes’ to confirm. |
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the lesser important programme. If one of the overlapping programmes is a regular timer programme for a digital broadcast, you may choose ‘Cancel Once’ in order to avoid having it overlap with a separately scheduled programme (see Skipping a
regular timer programme on page 77).
Simultaneous recording and
Preventing use of the recorder before a playback (Chase Play) 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.
HDD
Chase Play allows you to watch a recording that is still in progress from the start, without having to wait until the recording has finished (i.e., playback is ‘chasing’ the recording).
RECORDER
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If the recorder is on, switch it into standby.
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[Front panel] Press and hold for three seconds to lock the controls.
The front panel display briefly shows LOCKED. If any buttons are pressed on the remote or front panel, LOCKED is briefly displayed again.
In fact, you’re not just limited to watching the recording in progress. You can watch anything else already on the HDD (or on a DVD if you’re recording to the HDD) by selecting it from the Disc Navigator screen (see Using the Disc Navigator with recordable discs and the HDD on page 94).
Chase Play is not possible when DV is the recording input.
• To unlock the recorder, press and hold (Stop) on the front panel (while the recorder is stopped) for three seconds until the display shows UNLOCKED.
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 132), and that there are fewer than 99/999 titles already on the DVD/HDD.
•The recorder won’t let me enter a timer programme! Why not?
You can’t enter a timer programme if the clock isn’t set.
•What happens when two or more timer programmes overlap?
Basically, the programme with the earlier recording start time has priority. However, the recorder will start recording the programme with the later start time after the earlier programme is finished.
If schedule to record two programmes have the same times (but different channels, for example), then only one of the two programmes will be recorded. In this event you should cancel the scheduled recording of
PLAY
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Press during recording to start playback from the beginning of the current recording1.
DISC
• NAVIGATOR Press during recording to select another title to play.
You can use all the usual playback controls, such as pause,
• To stop playback, press | STOP (recording will |
continue). |
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• To stop recording, press | STOP REC (playback will |
continue). |
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•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 Additional information about the TV system settings on page 146). Also, during simultaneous recording and playback, if the TV line system of the playback track/title changes then playback will automatically stop.
Note
1 You can’t start playback immediately after recording starts. Simultaneous playback and recording doesn’t work while copying or backing up.
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