Pioneer DVR-640H-S Owner's Manual - Page 36

05 Recording Using the built-in TV tuner 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. CHANNEL + • CHANNEL CHANNEL +/- buttons - ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PQRS TUV WXYZ • Number buttons For example, to select channel 4, press 4 then ENTER; for channel 34, press 3, 4, ENTER.1 • CH +/- buttons on the front panel Changing cable channels When a cable box is connected, you can use the remote to change cable channels (up to 999). If your cable box is connected to the RF antenna input on this recorder: CHANNEL + ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PQRS TUV WXYZ • Use CHANNEL or - cable channel. Change the In this case, you can't change the channel of the built-in tuner. If your cable box is connected to a set of AV inputs: INPUT SELECT 1 Select the cable box input. CHANNEL + ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PQRS TUV WXYZ 2 Use CHANNEL or - cable channel. to change the Changing audio channels Some TV programs are broadcast with both a main and a Second Audio Program (SAP). You can change the TV audio using the AUDIO button. AUDIO • Press to change the audio type. The current audio channel is displayed on- screen. Mono SAP Stereo • If SAP is selected, but there is no SAP channel being broadcast, you will still hear the main audio channel. • If the sound is poor quality when set to Stereo, you can often improve it by changing to Mono. Note • When recording to the HDD with HDD Recording Format set to Video Mode On, to DVD in Video mode, or on the LPCM setting, only one channel of a dual mono broadcast is recorded. In this case, decide which language you want to record before recording by setting the Dual Mono Recording setting (see Dual Mono Recording on page 111). Note 1 Antenna channels are numbered 2 through 69. Cable channels are numbered 1 through 125. 36 En