Pioneer DVR-320-S Owner's Manual - Page 27

Getting started 04 Making your first recording This quick guide shows you how to make a basic recording of a TV program to a recordable DVD. Recording is covered in much more detail in chapter 6 (Recording). STANDBY/ON OPEN/CLOSE CHANNEL PLAY STOP REC STOPREC ì 4 Use the CHANNEL +/- buttons to select the TV channel you want to record from. • You can also use the +/- buttons on the front panel if the recorder is stopped. • Antenna channels are numbered 2 through 69. Cable channels are numbered 1 through 125. 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: DVD RECORDER CHANNEL 1 If they aren't already on, switch on your TV and this recorder. Press STANDBY/ON to switch on. • Make sure that the video input on your TV is set to this recorder. 2 Press OPEN/CLOSE to eject the disc tray. 3 Load a blank DVD-R or DVD-RW disc with the label face-up, using the disc guide to align the disc. • When you load a new, blank DVD-RW disc, the recorder will take a moment to initialize it for recording. ENTER • 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; for channel 102, press 1, 0, 2, ENTER. • +/- buttons on the front panel 27 En