Pioneer VSX-D810S - Manual (Page 33)

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Using the Tuner
An Introduction to RDS & EON
Radio Data System, or RDS as it’s usually known, is a
system used by FM radio stations to provide listeners
with various kinds of information—the name of the
station and the kind of show they’re broadcasting, for
example. This information shows up as text on the
display, and you can switch between the kind of
information shown. Although you don’t get RDS
information from all FM radio stations, you do with
most.
Probably the best feature of RDS is that you can search
automatically by type of program. So, if you felt like
listening to jazz, you could search for a station that’s
broadcasting a show with the program type, "JAZZ."
There are around 30 such program types, including
various genres of music, news, sport, talk shows,
financial information, and so on.
The receiver lets you display three different kinds of RDS
information: “Radio Text”, “Program Service Name”, and
“Program Type”.
“Radio Text” (
RT ) is messages sent by the radio station.
These can be anything the broadcaster chooses—a talk
radio station might give out it telephone number as RT,
for example.
“Program Service Name” (
PS ) is the name of the radio
station.
“Program Type” (
PTY ) indicates the kind of program
currently being broadcast.
The receiver can search for and display the following
program types:
NEWS Accounts of facts, events and reportage
AFFAIRS Current affairs
INFO General information
SPORT Any aspect of sports
EDUCATE Educational material
DRAMA Radio plays or serials
CULTURE National or regional culture, theatre, etc.
SCIENCE Science and technology
VARIED Usually talk-based material, such as quiz
shows or interviews.
POP M Pop music
ROCK M Rock music
M.O.R. M “Middle of the road” music
LIGHT M ‘Light’ classical music
CLASSICS ‘Serious’ classical music
OTHER M Other music not fitting any of the above
categories
WEATHER Weather reports, forecasts and
meteological information
FINANCE Stock market reports, commerce,
trading, etc.
CHILDREN Children’s entertainment
SOCIAL A Social affairs
RELIGION Beliefs and faiths, involving Gods, the
nature of existence, and ethics
PHONE IN Public expressing their views by phone
TRAVEL Holiday-type travel rather than traffic
announcements
LEISURE Leisure interests and hobbies
JAZZ Polyphonic, syncopated music character-
ised by improvisation
COUNTRY Country music
NATION M Popular music in a language other than
English
OLDIES Popular music from the ’50s
FOLK M Folk music
DOCUMENT Documentaries
In addition, there is a program type, ALARM! , used for
exceptional emergency announcements. You can’t search
for this, but the tuner will switch automatically to this
RDS broadcast signal.
Using the RDS display
To display the different types of RDS information
available ( RT , PS and PTY as explained on the previous
page), press TUN (TUNER) on the remote control and
use the DISPLAY button (also marked
4) to cycle
through the types of RDS information.
Each press changes the display as follows:
MEMO
This unit converts lower case characters transmitted by
broadcast station to upper case characters.
PS PTY
Frequency
RT