148 Video Recorder FunctionsWe advise you to watch the television through the VR-558. Just use your TV as a picture display while the KiSS VR-558 will be at the center and host all the commands you need to changechannels. It will make it easier and quicker to use the recording functions.- The Quality Chart figures are based on recording on an empty 300GB Hard Disk.- These figures will change if content is already present on the player’s built-in Hard Disk- The KiSS VR-558 encodes movies in MPEG-2 format. (.vob files)- Before recording, check the status of the Hard Disk and scheduled recording by pressing SETUP or MENU. The status appears on the top right hand corner of your screen.Time Shifting makes it possible to pause live TV if you need to go away from it for any reason. It allows you to pause the runningprogram and start it again at any given moment. It works by saving the watched TV program on the VR-558's Hard Disk while thetelevision screen is on pause mode. For that you need to watch a TV program through the VR-558. Just press PLAY/PAUSE. TheTV will freeze, recording will start in the pre-set quality. Press the PLAY/PAUSE button again to resume watching. You will beable to carry on watching your program while the VR-558 carries on recording. You can navigate through this on-going recordingby pressing the FAST FORWARD and REWIND buttons.Time ShiftingTurn on the Player and select the desired channel with the Up/Down buttons on the remote. Once the desired channel appearson the TV screen, press RECORD on the remote. The content from the TV channel is recorded onto the Hard Disk at the qualitypreviously chosen. When recording is finished, press the STOP button. Pressing RECORD repeately sets a limit on the recordingtime. If WEB Schedule is enabled and the channel is mapped, the default recording time is automatically set to the end of theprogram. Press RECORD again to add extra time.Easy recordingQuality Settings ChartQuality Bit Rate Approx. Recording Time - 300GB Hard DiskSHQ (Super High Quality) 8 Mbits/sec 79 hoursHQ (High Quality) 6 Mbits/sec 105 hoursSQ (Standard Quality) 4 Mbits/sec 155 hoursEP (Extended Play) 3 Mbits/sec 203 hoursLP (Long Play) 2 Mbits/sec 296 hoursSLP (Super Long Play) 1.5 Mbits/sec 385 hoursSetting qualityBefore starting recording we advise you to take a look at our quality settings. To specify the recording quality you will need tochoose between:-Long Play: Records with a medium quality, but doesn't take up so much space on the hard disk.-High Quality: Records at the highest quality, but takes up more hard disk space.To set aquality, press MENU on your remote, then go to VIDEO RECORDER FUNCTIONS, then RECORDING QUALITY. You will beasked to choose a quality. Please refer to the chart below for quality settings. Press the LEFT ARROW to exit the list.english