Recording from external equipment you are watching

Before you start

Check that the disc has enough available space for the recording. Adjust the recording mode.

Press the HDD or DVD button.

1 If you select DVD, press the OPEN/CLOSE button and place a recordable disc on the disc tray. Press the OPEN/CLOSE button to close the disc tray.

Wait until LOAD disappears from the front panel display. If an unused DVD-RW disc is used, whether to initialize or not will be asked first. (See page 77)

2 Press the INPUT SEL. button to select the input source according to the connection you made. The front panel display changes in the following sequence:

PR Number AV1 AV2 AV3 DV

If you connect a digital camcorder, press the

INPUT SEL. button to select DV. (See page 81)

 

Press the REC MODE button repeatedly, (or press

Recording

3 the REC MODE button, then press the …† buttons)

to select the recording speed (quality).

 

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Record Mode

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Press the REC button.

4 Information concerning the external input mode is displayed on the screen, then recording begins.

Icon() is displayed on the front panel.

- To pause recording -

Press the REC PAUSE button to pause a recording in progress.

Press the REC PAUSE button again during pause to resume recording.

You can switch channels by pressing the

PROG () buttons while recording pauses.

-To stop recording -

Press the STOP () button to stop or finish a recording in progress.

When using DVD-RW/-R discs, the message “Updating the information of disc. Please wait for a moment” is displayed.

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