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Press ENTER.
The menu disappears.
8
Press REC.
Recording starts.
Recording a TV programme (Continued)
Recording
Selecting the recording mode
Before recording, you can select the setting of picture and sound quality. During stop mode, press the REC MODE
button. By pressing the button repeatedly, you can select one from 5 settings of “AV record quality” appearing in
the front panel display.
Notes
• During recording, you cannot change the recording parameters, such as modes, channels, etc.
• The number of titles cannot exceed 99 for a DVD-RAM/RW/R disc or 396 for the HDD.
• One continuous recording cannot exceed in any case 8 hours. Recording automatically stops at 8 hours.
• During normal recording, you can set the programmed recording using the REC MENU.
• You cannot start recording immediately before a programmed recording starts.
• For recorded sound, see
page 76.
• During monaural sound recording, the same sound is recorded on both the left and right channels.
• When “Audio” is set to “L-PCM”, multi-channel sound is recorded as stereo sound. When playing this recorded sound, you
will hear NICAM Mode
I
and NICAM Mode
II
sounds simultaneously. Press the AUDIO button to select a desired sound.
• When “DVD compatible mode” is set to “On (Mode
I
)” or “On (Mode
II
)”, the unit records the same sounds on both the left
and right channels when receiving monaural sound. When receiving the NICAM Mode
I
/Mode
II
sound, the selected sound,
Mode
I
or Mode
II
, is recorded on both the left and right channels.
• Depending on the disc condition, pressing the REC button may take a longer time to start recording.
• When a starting time of a programmed recording comes, a recording in execution is stopped and the programmed recording
starts. If you do not want to stop the recording, cancel the timer program before it starts.
• Even if you set “Aspect ratio(video mode)” (
page 162) to “16:9”, images are recorded in 4:3 aspect ratio when using a
DVD-R or DVD-RW disc with “Rate” set to “1.0” (Mbps) or “1.4” (Mbps).
• Be careful of a programmed recording across the change-over of Daylight-saving time (
page 27).
REC
ENTER
TIMESLIP
HDD
DVD
EASY
NAVI
INSTANT SKIP
INSTANT REPLAY
PLAY
STOP
PAUSE
REC
LIBRARY
REC MENU EDIT MENU
CONTENT MENU
QUICK MENU
FR
AM
E/A
DJU
ST
PIC
TU
RE
SE
AR
C
H
SK
IP
S
LO
W
ENTER
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