Technicolor - Thomson DTH 8550, DTH 8540 manual Buttons on the front, Play / Pause

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Connections and initial set up

The buttons on the front

11 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1ON/STANDBY - To switch your DVD recorder on or off.

2G REV / FWD F

Fast forward or reverse (page 43).

3PLAY / PAUSE

-To play a disc placed in the disc tray (11) of the DVD recorder.

-Pause during playback (audio CD or mp3) or pause on an image (DVD).

4DVD REC - To record to the DVD+R/+RW disc.

5STOP - To stop play

(press once) or to stop recording in progress using the Channels menu (press twice).

6OPEN/CLOSE - To open and close the disc tray.

7DVR REC - To record to the hard disc. To start recording a TV programme (the red indicator lights up) and if necessary to adjust recording time by pressing repeatedly. Each press on the RECORD key extends recording time by 30 minutes.

➔ 0h30 ➔ 1h00 ➔ 1h30 ➔ 2h00 ➔ 2h30 ➔ 3h00 ➔

8AV - To select the audiovisual sources (channels or devices connected to the AV sockets):

PR 1 ,2 ,3 - Channel 1, 2, 3.

AV 1 - Device connected to AV1 (television set).

AV 2 - Device connected to AV2 (satellite receiver, decoder, …).

AV 3 - Sockets AUDIO/VIDEO on the front.

AV 4 - Sockets AV (S-VIDEOor AUDIO/VIDEO) at the back.

9PR- IC SKIP BI PR+

CTo change channels (page 26).

Skips forward or back a channel (page 44).

10DISPLAY PANEL - Displays your DVD recorder’s modes of operation (page 21).

• Adjusting the time

11Disc tray.

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