Pioneer DVR-230-S - Manual (Page 23)

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• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
• If the recorder is connected to your TV using a SCART
cable and your TV supports Direct Recording, it’s
possible to quickly start recording whatever channel
your TV is tuned to. See
Direct recording from TV on
page 38 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 two hours of
recording from a blank DVD disc. The different
recording mode and their recommended uses are
covered in mode detail in Chapter 6.
• You can pause recording by pressing .
Press ì REC or again to restart recording.
6 When you want to stop recording, press .
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 to start playback.
If you want to stop playback before the end of the
recording, press
.
Using the built-in TV tuner
Changing TV channels
There are three different ways to select TV channels. Note
that you can’t change the TV channel during playback,
recording or during recording standby.
• CH +/– 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 . (If you don’t press ENTER , the
channel changes after a few seconds.)
• +/– buttons on the front panel
Note
• Channel presets are numbered 1–99.
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 Audio In on page 56)
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 Audio In
on page 56), you can switch the audio channel
between left (
L ), right ( R ) or both ( L+R ).
Note
• When recording in Video mode, or in VR mode using
the XP setting, 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
Audio In
on page 56).
1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 0
ENTER
CH+
CH–
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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