Dear Customers: Thanks for purchasing our HDD TV Recorder product. Before starting to use this product, please read this manual carefully so that you will know some tips to enjoy the fantastic functions this product brings to you and some security notices. Please keep this manual for future reference. Introduction Notices ..................................................................................................................2 Accessories ...........................................................
Notices ■ Do not unclench the bundled adapter. Contact maintenance technicians if you want to have it repaired. ■ Avoid shock and damage to the device and keep your device away from any fluid. ■ Unplug the AC adapter if you are not using the device for safety issue. ■ Do not place the device close to any inflammable substances. ■ The battery for remote control is standard disposable CR2025 battery.
Accessories 1. Remote Control (with battery) 2. USB Cable 3. USB-OTG Adapter 4. AV Cable (two pieces) 5. AC Adapter 6. User manual CD 7. Quick Installation Guide Notice: If your TV does not have AV/ RCA jack, you have to prepare a SCART cable to connect BPR-101 to your TV.
Appearance Main Body Front Panel View 1. USB JACK 4. HDD/REC LED 2. OTG LED 5. POWER LED 3. ERR LED Back Panel View 1. AV-IN 2. Power Jack 4 3.
Features ■ Just one touch to convert DV format. ■ Support superior video recording Provide a “high”, “medium”, and “low” Compression ratio. The users can modify various recording parameters to obtain superior video recording results. ■ Support special memory function that you can play the movie from the point you shut down in the previous time. So you can continue the film from previous shut down point. ■ Support USB2.
BPR-101 / Remote Control Keys and Operations 1. CLEAR: Hide or show the information of the screen. 2. L/R: Change the track to left or right. 3. P/N: Change the display signal mode to PAL or NTSC. 4. POWER: For BPR-101 keypad’s power button: Turn on/off main power of BPR-101. For remote control’s power button: While in power on state, enter or exit standby state. Notice: You can not use remote control to turn on/off main power 5. ZOOM: Zoom photos. 6. ROTATE: Rotate photos. 7.
10. EQ: Enter the equalizer menu. 11. EFFECT: Enter the selection list of special effect. 12. INTERVAL: Select the interval time for slideshow, including music-slide-show. 13. MENU: Show function list of current status of user interface. 14. DIRECTION: Move cursor or move the photo in the Zoom mode. 15. EXIT: Stop the current playing program to back to previous browse directory or exit browse mode to show MAIN MENU. 16. BROWSER: Back to root directory 17. ENTER/PLAY: Confirm your selection. 18.
Getting started ■ Connected BPR-101 to power adapter, then press the BPR-101 keypad's POWER button (not the remote control's POWER button), the power LED will turn green and BPR-101 will boot up. ■ When BPR-101 is booting up, MAIN MENU will be shown on the screen. If there are more than one partition on your HDD, PARTITION LIST will be shown on the screen instead of MAIN MENU. ■ Please pull out the insulated film in the bottom of the remote control before the first time usage.
BPR-101 Summary 1. The Image Management When you choose “Image” in main menu of BPR-101, you are entering the image management section that provides following features. ■ Browse the files in the directory: You could browse all JPEG files in your HDD directory. ■ Preview photos: BPR-101 supports the 3x3 preview mode to display the photo. You could browse and choose the wanted photo easily by the cursor. ■ Show photos: BPR-101 shows the photos with the optimized size.
■ Subtitle: You may play the movie with the subtitle. But please note that the name of the subtitle file must be matched to that of the video file. In this way, the subtitle file will be loaded automatically when the video file is played. 3.
section that provides you the following features. ■ Preview: In the recording preview mode, you can preview the real-time video you plan to record on the connected audio/ video output devices, such as TV and other video display interface. ■ Recording: When you confirm the video clips you plan to record, you could record the video clips by pressing the REC button. Time of recording will be displayed during the recording. ■ Save: The recorded video clip will be saved as “RECxxx.
Hard disk format [Format your HDD] Notice:Please skip the format procedures if HDD is already formatted. On a PC (Windows 2000/XP) Use the Disk Management Utility ■ Connect BPR-101 to the computer as page 15 shown. ■ On windows desktop, right click on “My Computer” and choose “Manage”. ■ Select “Disk Management”. ■ Choose the hard drive you want to format and right click on the Disk or drive field for further commands. ■ Create a primary partition and format it.
■Select “Disk Utility” in the utilities folder. ■Choose your external drive and format it as MS-DOS File System. Notice: Format your BPR-101 under MS-DOS File System.
Import media files and other files [BPR-101 acts as an USB host] You can connect USB device, such as Digital Camera, USB Flash memory, MP3, Card Reader, to BPR-101 and copy the media files from the connected USB device to your HDD directly. Connect BPR-101 to other USB devices, such as the digital camera. [Operation Steps] ■ Connect BPR-101 to the power supply. ■ Connect OTG to BPR-101. The OTG LED on the BPR-101 front panel will turn red.
[BPR-101 acts as an USB slave device] Connect BPR-101 to the computer. Power your BPR-101. There are three methods to power your BPR-101 as illustrated below. 1. Self-power: Connect BPR-101 to the power supply socket on the wall via AC adaptor. This method is suitable for all HDD regardless HDD capacity. But please make sure that the USB cable is not connected to the computer when the AC adapter is connected to the wall and to BPR-101.
BPR-101 Setting Application1- Playback: Connect BPR-101 to TV as shown. Notice: Please match AV cable’s three output terminals (with three different colors) to the corresponding input jack on you TV. Application2- Recording DV/DVD: Connect BPR-101 to TV and other video output equipment, such as DV/DVD as shown.
Application3- Recording TV programs directly: Connect the BPR-101 to TV as shown. Notice: Connect the AV-OUT of the TV(source program channel) to the AV-IN of BPR-101, and connect the AV-OUT of BPR-101 to the AV-IN of TV. Please make sure to turn your TV to the program channel you want to record first, then press the REC key on the keypad(or remote control), BPR-101 will start to record the program.
BPR-101 User Interface 1. Main menu After turning on the BPR-101, you will see the main menu. Operating Instructions: ■ Selection 1. You can select items in the main menu by pressing “◄” and “►” buttons on remote control. 2. Press “ENTER” button to confirm the selections. ■ Menu 1. Press “MENU” button on the remote control. 2. Press the up and down button to select items you want and press ENTER to confirm the selection. Display System Option 2.
3. Image In Image section, you may select any one JPG file and press ENTER. You will then enter the browse mode. ■ 1x 1 Browse Mode: Operating Instructions: 1. Press “◄” and “►” button to view the .JPG file one by one. 2. Press “THUMB” to switch the browse mode to 3x3 Browse Mode. 3. Press “EXIT” to back to the browser menu. 4. Press “ROTATE” to revolve picture in anticlockwise direction. 5. Press “ZOOM” to enlarge the selected image file. 6.
■ 3x3 Browse Mode: You may press “THUMB” to enter 3x3 Browse Mode: Operating Instructions: 1. You may select the file you want by pressing “◄” and “►” button on remote control. 2. You may press THUMB to switch to 1x1 Browse Mode to view selected picture. 3. You may press MENU to back to the menu and then select “info” to view the detailed specific file information. ■ Zoom Mode: You may press “ZOOM” to enlarge the selected photo by 2 or 4 times: Operating Instructions: 1.
Operating illustration: 1. Press “VOL+” and “VOL-“ buttons to adjust the volume. 2. Press “EXIT” to back to the browser menu. 3. Press “◄” and “►” button to play the previous or next video clips. 4. Press “◄◄” or “►►” to play fast backward or forward. 5. Press “SUBTI” to open or close the subtitle. 6. Press “CLEAR” to hide or display the controlled information. 7. Press “MENU” to display the following menu. 5. Music Please select audio file and press “ENTER” to play music.
Operating Instructions: 1. The operation is the same to the default playback background. 2. Press ”CLEAR” to hide the file information and leave the lyric only. 6. Record If you plan to record the video programs in DV or DVD player into BPR-101, please connect BPR-101 to DV/DVD player as the illustration shown in page 16. ■ Preview Video Clips: Operating Instructions: 1. Play the DV/DVD when the BPR-101 is connected. 2.
4. After modifying the recording parameters, you may click "EXIT" to back to the preview mode. ■ Recording: Press “REC” to start to record the video clips and press “■" to stop recording and back to the preview mode. ■ Save: Your recorded file will be saved at the “X:\Movie\Rec\RExxxx.AVI” in the first partition of HDD in BPR-101. “X” represents the driver code while “xxxx” represents the serial number, which will be increased automatically as the saved files increase.
Specifications Power adapter INPUT: AC 100/240V 50/60Hz OUTPUT: DC 5V 2A Power consumption 6W (typical) Dimensions 137*77*25 mm TV standard NTSC, PAL Frequency response ±3dB (20Hz- 20Khz) Signal / Noise Ratio ≥85db Audio dynamic Range ≥87db Audio cross Talk ≥85db Audio output 2.0±0.2V (rms) Video output 1.0±.0.2P-,75Ω USB data transfer rate USB 2.
Tips and Trouble shootings Problem: Nothing is displayed on TV. Please check if BPR-101 is in standby status. If so, please press POWER button ■ to wake it up. Make sure that you select proper audio/ video input source for TV and please ■ check if you connect AV cable’s three terminals to your TV correctly. Problem: No sound. ■ BPR-101 is in mute mode. Please press MUTE button to resume the sound.
adaptor rather than the bus-power. Please note that you can only connect your BPR-101 to double USB plugs to get bus-power when your HDD capacity is below 40G. ■ If your operating system is Windows 98, please check if you install proper USB driver in your operating system. Problem: When BPR-101 acts as a host device, I cannot copy the files in the USB slave device into my HDD. ■ Please make sure that you didn’t press COPY button during copy process.