User Guide

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Table of Contents
General
Care and Safety Information ..........................................................................................6
Setup precautions .................................................................................................................................................6
Cleaning discs ........................................................................................................................................................6
Hard Disk Drive (HDD) handling care...........................................................................................................6
Energy saving message ........................................................................................................................................6
Product Information .....................................................................................................7-8
In troduc tion ...........................................................................................................................................................7
Accessories supplied ...........................................................................................................................................7
Region codes ..........................................................................................................................................................7
Special features .....................................................................................................................................................8
Product Overview
Main Unit ........................................................................................................................... 9
Remote Control .......................................................................................................10~12
Using the remote control ................................................................................................................................12
Connections & Setup
Step 1: Basic Recorder Connections ......................................................................13~15
Connecting the antenna cables ......................................................................................................................13
Connecting the video/audio cables ....................................................................................................... 14~15
Step 2: Optional Connections .................................................................................16~18
Connecting to a Cable Box or Satellite Receiver .....................................................................................16
Connecting to a VCR or other similar device ............................................................................................17
Connecting to an AV ampli er/receiver ......................................................................................................17
Connecting to a camcorder ............................................................................................................................18
Step 3: Installation and Set-up ................................................................................19~20
Watch TV
Control TV Programmes ........................................................................................21~23
Viewing live TV....................................................................................................................................................21
About Time Shift buffer - temporary HDD storage ........................................................................21~22
Pause live TV function .......................................................................................................................................23
Instant replay function ......................................................................................................................................23
FlexTime function ...............................................................................................................................................23
Main Menu
Using the Home menu ............................................................................................ 24~25
About the Home menu .....................................................................................................................................24
Viewing media information ............................................................................................................................. 25
Recording
Before Recording ..................................................................................................... 26~29
Recording media .................................................................................................................................................26
Default recording settings ....................................................................................................................... 27~29
Record TV Programmes ......................................................................................... 30~34
Record current TV programme .................................................................................................................... 30
Record a speci c section of TV programmes .......................................................................................... 30
Simultaneous record and play function ........................................................................................................31
About timer recording ......................................................................................................................................32
Timer recording (G-CODE system) ......................................................................................................... 32~33
Timer recording (manually) .....................................................................................................................33~34
Changing/Deleting a scheduled recording .................................................................................................. 34
Record from external devices .................................................................................35~37
Recording from an external device (Camcorder/VCR/DVD player) ...................................................35
Recording from a DV Camcorder .........................................................................................................36~37