Sony RDR-HXD970 User Manual

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Table of Contents

WARNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Quick Guide to Disc Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Recordable and playable discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Playable discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Hookups and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Hooking Up the Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Checking hookup and setting methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Step 1: Connecting the Aerial Cable and Set Top Box Controller . . . . . . . . 15

Using the set top box receiver control function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
A: Receiving Freeview (For digital broadcasting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
B: Receiving cable or satellite (For analogue broadcasting) . . . . . . . . . . 17
C: Receiving terrestrial (For analogue broadcasting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Step 2: Connecting the Video Cords/HDMI Cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

About the SMARTLINK features (for SCART connections only) . . . . . . . 21
About the HDMI Control functions for ‘BRAVIA’ Theatre Sync

(for HDMI connections only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Step 3: Connecting the Audio Cords/HDMI Cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Step 4: Connecting the Mains Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Step 5: Preparing the Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Controlling TVs with the remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
If you have a Sony DVD player or more than one Sony DVD

recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Changing programme positions of the recorder using the remote . . . . . 26

Step 6: Easy Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Setting up your set top box receiver for the GUIDE Plus+

®

system

(For analogue broadcasting) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Connecting a VCR or Similar Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Connecting to the LINE 1/DECODER jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting to the LINE 2 IN jacks on the front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Connecting an External Decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Connecting a decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Setting external decoder (PAY-TV/Canal Plus analogue decoder)

programme positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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