PIONEER DVR-7000/KU/CA Owner's Manual

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DVD Recorder
DVR-7000
Operating Instructions
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DVD Recorder
DVR-7000
Operating Instructions
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
H006AEn
The serial number for this equipment is located in the
rear panel. Please write this serial number on your
enclosed warranty card and keep it in a secure area. This
is for your security.
Thank you for buying this Pioneer product.
Please read through these operating instructions
so you will know how to operate your model
properly. After you have finished reading the
instructions, put them away in a safe place for
future reference.
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This product includes FontAvenue (R) fonts licenced by NEC
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
DVD disc box information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2
Connecting 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 VCR Plus+
programming system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Setting up: Setting the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Auto clock setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Manual clock setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
Displaying program titles and channel call letters . . . . . . 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 VCR Plus+
programming system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
VCR Plus+ 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
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Recording from the DV output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
What is DV? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
DV-related messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
8
Editing Using the Discnavi
Original and Playlist editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Titles, chapters and parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Adding chapter markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Using the Discnavi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Changing the Discnavi title thumbnail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Playing a chapter or title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Naming a title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Making a new Playlist title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Adding a part to the Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Erasing a part from the Original or Playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Erasing an Original or Playlist title/chapter . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Erasing all Original titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Moving a Playlist chapter or title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Protecting/unprotecting an Original title . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Copying a Playlist title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Combining two chapters into one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Undoing the last edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
9
Using the Title List Screen
What you can do from the Title List menu . . . . . . . . . . 76
Playing a title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Naming a title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Erasing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
10 The Initial Setup Menu
Using the Initial Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Clock Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Optimized Rec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Tuner settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Auto CH Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Manual CH Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
VCR Plus+ CH Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Video settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
TV Screen Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Screen Size for Rec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Still Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Video In / Out settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Component Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
DV Link. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Audio In settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
External Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Dual Mono Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
DV Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Audio Output settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Digital Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Dolby Digital Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
DTS Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
96kHz PCM Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
MPEG Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Audio DRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Language settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
OSD Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Audio Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Subtitle Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Auto Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
DVD Menu Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Subtitle Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Subtitle Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Selecting `Other' languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Parental Lock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Registering a new password and setting/changing the
parental lock level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Changing your password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
On Screen Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Angle Indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Frame Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Navi Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Start Rec on DVD-R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Chapter Interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Remote Control Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
11 The Disc Setup Menu
Basic settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Disc Timer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Input Disc Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Using the Disc Setup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Protect Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Initialize settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
VR Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Video Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Finalize settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Finalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Undo Finalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
12 Using the Video Adjust Menu
Using the Video Adjust menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Setting the picture quality for TV and external inputs . 90
Choosing a preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Creating your own set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Setting the noise reduction for recording . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Setting the picture quality for disc playback . . . . . . . . 92
Choosing a preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Creating your own set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
13 Additional Information
On-screen displays and recorder displays . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Handling discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Storing discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Discs to avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Cleaning the pickup lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Problems with condensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Hints on installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Moving the player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Language code list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Screen sizes and disc formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Resetting the recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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