PYLE Audio DVR-940HX-S manual Contents

Contents

01 Before you start

What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Putting the batteries in the remote

control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Using the remote control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Disc / content format playback

compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

About the internal/external hard disk

drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Symbols used in this manual . . . . . . . . . 13

02 Connecting up

Rear panel connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Common Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Connecting a TV antenna . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Using other types of audio/video output . 18 Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Connecting an external decoder box (1) . 21 Connecting an external decoder box (2) . 22 Connecting to an AV amplifier/receiver . . 23 Connecting using HDMI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . 25 Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Connecting the optional external HDD (DVR-940HX-S only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

03 Controls and displays

Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Remote control (DVR-940HX-S) . . . . . . . . 31 Remote control (DVR-545HX-S) . . . . . . . . 33

04 Getting started

Switching on and setting up . . . . . . . . . . 36 For users receiving digital broadcast services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Setting up the GUIDE Plus+® system . . 40

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05 Using the GUIDE Plus+® electronic program guide

The GUIDE Plus+® system. . . . . . . . . . . 44

Using the GUIDE Plus+® system . . . . . . 45 Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

GUIDE Plus+® FAQ and

troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

06 Using the digital electronic program guide

The Digital EPG system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Using the Digital EPG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Setting timer programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Other useful EPG functions . . . . . . . . . . 64

07 Recording

About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 About HDD recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Recorded audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . 68 Using the built-in A.TV and D.TV tuners . 69 Setting the picture quality/recording

time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . 73 Pause Live TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Simultaneous recording and playback (Chase Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Recording from an external component . 78

Playing your recordings on other DVD
players	78
Initializing recordable DVD discs	80

08 Playback

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Basic playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Using the Disc Navigator to browse the contents of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Scanning discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . 88 The Play Mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Displaying and switching subtitles . . . . . 91 Switching DVD and DivX soundtracks . . 91 Switching audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Displaying disc information on-screen . . 93

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