Sony 3-295-080-12(1) manual 6

Table of Contents

WARNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Guide to Parts and Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Hookups and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Hooking Up the Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Checking hookup and setting methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Step 1: Connecting the Aerial Cable and Set Top Box Controller . . . . . . . 18 A: Receiving Freeview (For digital broadcasting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 B: Receiving Freeview and analogue terrestrial broadcastings . . . . . . 19 C: Receiving cable or satellite (For analogue broadcasting). . . . . . . . . 20 D: Receiving terrestrial (For analogue broadcasting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Step 2: Connecting the Video Cords/HDMI Cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 About the SMARTLINK features (for SCART connections only). . . . . . 24 About the “Control for HDMI” functions for ‘BRAVIA’ Sync

(for HDMI connections only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Step 3: Connecting the Audio Cords/HDMI Cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Step 4: Inserting a Conditional Access Module (CAM) (RDR-HXD795/HXD895/HXD995/HXD1095 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Step 5: Connecting the Mains Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Step 6: Preparing the Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Controlling TVs with the remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 If you have a Sony DVD player or more than one Sony DVD

recorder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Changing programme positions of the recorder using the remote . . . . 29 Step 7: Easy Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Setting up the GUIDE Plus+® system (For analogue broadcasting/

in areas with GUIDE Plus+ only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Connecting a VCR or Similar Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Connecting to the LINE 1/DECODER jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Connecting to the LINE 2 IN jacks on the front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Connecting an External Decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Connecting a decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Setting external decoder (PAY-TV/Canal Plus analogue decoder) programme positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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