Pioneer DVR-531H-S - Manual (Page 51)

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Setting the picture quality/recording
time
Before starting a recording, you will usually want to set
the picture quality/recording time. There are six standard
settings available, which allow you to choose a balance
between picture quality and recording time.
When Manual Recording is set to On (see Manual
Recording on page 95), a further option will be available
( MN1 – 32 , LPCM or XP+ , depending on what you set).
See also Recording time and picture quality on page 50 for
more information.
• Press REC MODE repeatedly to select a recording
setting.
• XP – High quality
• SP – Standard play
• LP – Long play
• EP – Extended play
• SLP – Super Long play
• SEP – Super Extended play
• MN / LPCM 1
/ XP+ 2
– Manual / Linear PCM / XP+
(available only when manual recording is on)
The setting is indicated in the front panel display, and
shown on-screen together with the recording time for a
blank recordable disc. If a recordable disc is loaded, the
approximate remaining recording time for that disc is
also shown. (Note that if the On Screen Display setting
(see
On-Screen Display on page 96) is Off then this
information is not displayed.)
Basic recording from the TV
Follow the instructions below to record a TV program.
Recording starts immediately and continues until the
disc is full or you stop the recording.
1 Press HDD or DVD to record to the hard disk drive
or a recordable DVD respectively.
• If you’re recording to DVD, load a recordable disc (if
you load a new blank DVD-RW disc, the recorder
takes a short while to initialize the disc).
2 Use the CH +/– buttons to select the TV channel
to record.
The front panel display shows the channel number:
Note
1.Audio is recorded in 16-bit Linear PCM format, video is recorded at XP quality. When recording a broadcast with a SAP channel, select which
audio channel to record (see Dual Mono Recording on page 93).
2.Applicable only to HDD recording. (If this setting is used when recording to DVD, MN32 is used.) When copied to DVD, XP+ recordings are
always copied in real time.
VR mode Video mode HDD
REC MODE
VR mode Video mode HDD
DVD RECORDER
AUDIO
HDD DVD
ENTER
CLEAR
CH
REC
PAUSE
STOP REC REC MODE
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Channel number
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