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Using the built-in tv tuner, Getting started 04 – Pioneer DVR-3100 User Manual

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Getting started

04

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• If the recorder is connected to your TV using a SCART

cable and your TV supports Direct Recording, you
can use this to very simply start recording the TV
channel you’re currently watching. See

Direct

recording from TV

on page 48 for detailed instructions.

5

Press

ì

REC to start recording.

• By default, the recording will be in

SP

(standard play)

mode, which will give you around 2 hours of
recording from a blank DVD disc.

• You can pause recording by pressing

PAUSE

.

Press

ì

REC

or

PAUSE

again to restart recording.

6

When you want to stop recording, press

STOP REC.

Playing back your recording

The TV program you just recorded should be on the DVD
disc as a single title with one or more chapters.

Press

PLAY to start playback.

If you want to stop playback before the end of the
recording, press

STOP

.

Using the built-in TV tuner

Changing TV channels

When no disc is playing, you can change TV channels in
three different ways:

CHANNEL +/–

buttons on the remote

Number buttons

on the remote – For example, to

select channel 4, press

4

then

ENTER

; for channel 34,

press

3

,

4

,

ENTER

.

SMART JOG

on the front panel

Note

• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.

• You can’t change TV channels during playback or

recording, or while in recording standby.

Changing audio channels

You can change the audio channel of the broadcast or
external input signal.

Press AUDIO to change the audio.

The current audio channel is displayed on-screen.

• If the NICAM audio setting (see

NICAM Select

on

page 81) is set to

NICAM

and you are watching a

NICAM broadcast, you can switch between

NICAM

and

Regular

(non-NICAM) audio.

• If the NICAM broadcast is bilingual, you can also

select the language.

You can also select the language for a non-NICAM bilingual

broadcast.

• When watching a recording made from an external

input with

Bilingual

recording selected (see

External

Audio

on page 81), you can switch the audio channel

between left (

L

), right (

R

) or both (

L+R

).

Note

• If a Video mode disc is loaded, or if the recording

mode is

FINE

/

MN32

, only one channel of a bilingual

broadcast is recorded. In this case, decide which
language you want to record before recording by
setting the Bilingual Recording setting (see

Bilingual

Recording

on page 82).

ENTER

CHANNEL

AUDIO

NICAM

Regular

NICAM A

NICAM B

Regular NICAM A+B

A (L)

B (R)

A + B (L+R)

L

R

L+R

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