SONY RDR-HX510.PDF

2-589-941- 12 (1)

DVD Recorder

Operating Instructions

RDR-HX510

WARNING

CAUTION

The use of optical instruments with this

product will increase eye hazard. As

the laser beam used in this DVD

recorder is harmful to eyes, do not

attempt to disassemble the cabinet.

Refer servicing to qualified personnel

only.

Precautions

To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not

expose the unit to rain or moisture.

To avoid electrical shock, do not open

the cabinet. Refer servicing to qualified

personnel only.

The mains lead must only be changed

at a qualified service shop.

This equipment has been tested and

found to comply with the limits set

out in the EMC Directive using a

connection cable shorter than 3

metres.

On safety

Should any solid object or liquid fall

into the cabinet, unplug the recorder

and have it checked by qualified

personnel before operating it any

further.

About the hard disk drive

The hard disk has a high storage

density, which enables long

recording durations and quick

access to the written data. However,

it can easily be damaged by shock,

vibration or dust, and should be kept

away from magnets. To avoid losing

important data, observe the

following precautions.

• Do not apply a strong shock to the

recorder.

• Do not place the recorder in a

location subject to mechanical

vibrations or in an unstable

location.

• Do not place the recorder on top of

a hot surface, such as a VCR or

amplifier (receiver).

• Do not use the recorder in a place

subject to extreme changes in

temperature (temperature gradient

less than 10 °C/hour).

• Do not move the recorder with its

mains lead connected.

• Do not disconnect the mains lead

while the power is on.

• When disconnecting the mains

lead, turn off the power and make

sure that the hard disk drive is not

operating (the clock is displayed in

the front panel display and all

recording or dubbing has stopped).

• Do not move the recorder for one

minute after you have unplugged

the mains lead.

• Do not attempt to replace or

upgrade the hard disk by yourself,

as this may result in malfunction.

This appliance is classified as a

CLASS 1 LASER product. The

CLASS 1 LASER PRODUCT

MARKING is located on the laser

protective housing inisde the

enclosure.

This label is located on the laser

protective housing inside the

enclosure.

Disposal of Old Electrical &

Electronic Equipment

(Applicable in the European

Union and other European

countries with separate

collection systems)

This symbol on the product or on its

packaging indicates that this product

shall not be treated as household waste.

Instead it shall be handed over to the

applicable collection point for the

recycling of electrical and electronic

equipment. By ensuring this product is

disposed of correctly, you will help

prevent potential negative

consequences for the environment and

human health, which could otherwise

be caused by inappropriate waste

handling of this product. The recycling

of materials will help to conserve

natural resources. For more detailed

information about recycling of this

product, please contact your local city

office, your household waste disposal

service or the shop where you

purchased the product.

Notice for customers in the

United Kingdom and Republic of

Ireland

A moulded plug complying with

BS1363 is fitted to this equipment for

your safety and convenience.

Should the fuse in the plug supplied

need to be replaced, a 5 AMP fuse

approved by ASTA or BSI to BS1362,

(i.e., marked with or mark)

must be used.

If the plug supplied with this

equipment has a detachable fuse cover,

be sure to attach the fuse cover after

you change the fuse. Never use the

plug without the fuse cover. If you

should lose the fuse cover, please

contact your nearest Sony service

station.

Precautions

• This unit operates on 220 – 240 V

AC, 50/60 Hz. Check that the unit’s

operating voltage is identical with

your local power supply.

• To prevent fire or shock hazard, do

not place objects filled with liquids,

such as vases, on the apparatus.

VIDEO Plus+ and PlusCode are

registered trademarks of Gemstar

Development Corporation.

The VIDEO Plus+ system is

manufactured under license from

Gemstar Development Corporation.

If the hard disk drive should

malfunction, you cannot recover lost

data. The hard disk drive is only a

temporary storage space.

About repairing the hard disk

drive

• The contents of the hard disk drive

may be checked in case of repair

or inspection during a malfunction

or modification. However, the

contents will not be backed up or

saved by Sony.

• If the hard disk needs to be

formatted or replaced, it will be

done at the discretion of Sony. All

contents of the hard disk drive will

be erased, including contents that

violate copyright laws.

On recording

• Note that the contents of the

recording cannot be compensated

for under any and all conditions,

including conditions that may

arise due to a malfunction of this

unit.

• Make trial recordings before

making the actual recording.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Caution: This recorder is capable

of holding a still video image or

on-screen display image on your

television screen indefinitely. If

you leave the still video image or

on-screen display image

displayed on your TV for an

extended period of time you risk

permanent damage to your

television screen. Plasma display

panels and projection televisions

are especially susceptible to this.

Copyrights

• Television programmes, films,

video tapes, discs, and other

materials may be copyrighted.

Unauthorized recording of such

material may be contrary to the

provisions of the copyright laws.

Also, use of this recorder with

cable television transmission may

require authorization from the

cable television transmitter and/or

programme owner.

• This product incorporates

that is protected by U.S. patents

and other intellectual property

rights. Use of this copyright

protection technology must be

authorized by Macrovision, and is

intended for home and other

limited viewing uses only unless

otherwise authorized by

Macrovision. Reverse engineering

or disassembly is prohibited.

On power sources

• The recorder is not disconnected

from the AC power source (mains)

as long as it is connected to the

wall outlet, even if the recorder

itself has been turned off.

• If you are not going to use the

recorder for a long time, be sure to

disconnect the recorder from the

wall outlet. To disconnect the AC

power cord (mains lead), grasp the

plug itself; never pull the cord.

• Before disconnecting the AC

power cord (mains lead), check

that the recorder’s hard disk is not

operating (recording or dubbing)

on the front panel display.

If you have any questions or

problems concerning your recorder,

please consult your nearest Sony

dealer.

About this manual

• In this manual, the internal hard

disk drive is written as “HDD,”

and “disc” is used as a general

reference for the HDD, DVDs, or

CDs unless otherwise specified by

the text or illustrations.

• Instructions in this manual

describe the controls on the

remote. You can also use the

controls on the recorder if they

have the same or similar names as

those on the remote.

• The on-screen display illustrations

used in this manual may not match

the graphics displayed on your TV

screen.

• The explanations regarding DVDs

in this manual refer to DVDs

created on this recorder. The

explanations do not apply to

DVDs that are created on other

recorders and played back on this

recorder.

On placement

• Place the recorder in a location with

adequate ventilation to prevent heat

build-up in the recorder.

• Do not place the recorder on a soft

surface such as a rug that might

block the ventilation holes.

• Do not place the recorder in a

confined space such as a bookshelf

or similar unit.

• Do not place the recorder in a

location near heat sources, or in a

place subject to direct sunlight,

excessive dust, or mechanical

shock.

• Do not place the recorder in an

inclined position. It is designed to

be operated in a horizontal

position only.

• Keep the recorder and discs away

from equipment with strong

magnets, such as microwave

ovens, or large loudspeakers.

• Do not place heavy objects on the

recorder.

Copy guard function

Since the recorder has a copy guard

function, programmes received

through an external tuner (not

supplied) may contain copy

protection signals (copy guard

function) and as such may not be

recordable, depending on the type of

signal.

Table of Contents

WARNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Ways to Use Your DVD Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Quick Guide to Disc Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Recordable and playable discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Playable discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Hookups and Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Hooking Up the Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Step 1: Unpacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Step 2: Connecting the Aerial Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Step 3: Connecting the Video Cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

About the SMARTLINK features (for SCART connections only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Using the PROGRESSIVE button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Step 4: Connecting the Audio Cords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Step 5: Connecting the Mains Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Step 6: Preparing the Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Controlling TVs with the remote. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Controlling the volume of your AV amplifier (receiver) with the remote . . . . . . . . . 20

If you have a Sony DVD player or more than one Sony DVD recorder . . . . . . . . . 21

Step 7: Easy Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Connecting a VCR or Similar Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Connecting to the LINE 3/DECODER jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Connecting to the LINE 2 IN or LINE 4 IN jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Connecting to a Satellite or Digital Tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Connecting a PAY-TV/Canal Plus Decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Connecting a decoder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Setting PAY-TV/Canal Plus channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Seven Basic Operations — Getting to Know Your DVD Recorder

1. Inserting and Formatting a DVD Disc (Disc Info) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Inserting a Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Formatting a DVD disc (Disc Info) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2. Recording a Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Checking the disc status while recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

3. Playing the Recorded Programme (Title List) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

4. Displaying the Playing Time and Play Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Checking the playing/remaining time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

5. Changing the Name of a Recorded Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

6. Labelling and Protecting a Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Labelling a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Protecting a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

7. Playing the Disc on Other DVD Equipment (Finalize) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Unfinalizing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Timer Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Before Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Recording mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Recording stereo and bilingual programmes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Unrecordable pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Timer Recording (Standard/VIDEO Plus+) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Setting the timer manually (Standard) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Recording TV programmes using the VIDEO Plus+ system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Using the Quick Timer function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Adjusting the recording picture quality and size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating chapters in a title. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Checking/Changing/Cancelling Timer Settings (Timer List) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Automatically erasing old titles (Auto Title Erase) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Recording From Connected Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Recording from connected equipment with a timer (Synchro Rec) . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Recording from connected equipment without a timer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Playback options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Adjusting the picture quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Adjusting the sound quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Pausing a TV Broadcast (TV Pause). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Playing from the beginning of the programme you are recording

(Chasing Playback) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Playing a previous recording while making another

(Simultaneous Rec and Play) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Searching for a Title/Chapter/Track, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Searching by Thumbnail (Visual Search) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Searching by title number or time code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Playing MP3 Audio Tracks or JPEG Image Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Selecting an MP3 album or track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Selecting a JPEG album or image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

About MP3 audio tracks and JPEG image files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

MP3 audio tracks or JPEG image files that the recorder can play . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

About playback order of albums, tracks, and files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Erasing and Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Before Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Edit options for the HDD and DVD-RWs (VR mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Edit options for DVD+RWs/DVD-RWs (Video mode)/DVD+Rs/DVD-Rs. . . . . . . . 65

Erasing and Editing a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Erasing a chapter (Delete Chapter). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Erasing a section of a title (A-B Erase) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Erasing multiple titles (Erase Titles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Dividing a title (Divide). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Erasing all titles on the disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Erasing titles to open up disc space (Disc Map) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Creating chapters manually. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

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