Pioneer DVR-7000, Operating Instructions Manual

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Contents
1 Before You Start
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What’s in the box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Putting the batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Important information before you start . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
How are DVD-R and DVD-RW discs different? . . . . . . . . . 9
Can I play my recordable discs in a
regular DVD player? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
What are ‘recording modes’? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Is editing a DVD like editing a video tape? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
On-screen icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Recordable discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Playback-only discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Titles, chapters and tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
DVD-Video regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
DVD disc box information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2Connecting Up
Rear panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Front panel connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Easy connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using other types of video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting using an S-Video output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting using the component video output . . . . . . . 15
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (1) . . . . 16
Connecting to a cable box or satellite receiver (2) . . . . 17
Connecting to an AV amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Connecting other AV sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting a VCR or analog camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Connecting a digital camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Plugging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3 Controls and Displays
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4 Getting Started
Switching on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Using the on-screen displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Setting up: Auto-tuning channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Setting up: Channel skip and manual tuning . . . . . . . . 25
Setting up: Assigning guide channels for G-Code
programming system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting up: Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Setting up: TV aspect ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Setting up: Digital audio output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Other settings you can make . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Setting up the remote to control your TV . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the built-in TV tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Changing TV channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Changing audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Playing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Basic playback controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using DVD-Video disc menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Using Video CD PBC menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Navigating discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the front panel controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Scanning discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Playing in slow motion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Frame advance/frame reverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Using the front panel controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
About DVD recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Disc types and recording formats, modes and settings . . 38
Recording in VR mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Recording in Video mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Recording TV audio channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Restrictions on video recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
What is ‘CPRM’? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Copyright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Initializing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting up for VR mode recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting up for Video mode recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Setting the recording mode from the front panel . . . . 42
Adjusting the audio recording level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Basic recording from the TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
One touch recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Playing your recordings on other DVD players . . . . . . . 44
Finalizing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Displaying disc information on-screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5 Other Playback Features
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Finding what you want on a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Switching subtitles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Switching audio soundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Switching audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Switching camera angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using repeat play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Looping a section of a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Making a program list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6 Timer Recording
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Standard timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Checking timer recording details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Canceling a timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Stopping a timer recording in progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Extending a timer recording in progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Timer recording troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Automatic timer recording using the G-Code
programming system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
G-Code programming with the power off . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Disc timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Setting up the disc for disc timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Programming a disc timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using a disc with disc timer recording programs . . . . . . . 61
Child lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7 Recording from an External Input
Recording from an external component . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Automatic recording from a satellite tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Recording from a digital camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64