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Playing back
Preparation: Turn on a Monitor set or TV set connected
with the video cassette recorder and set it to an exter-
nal input mode (VIDEO 1, VIDEO 2, etc.).
1 Press the POWER button of the video cassette re-
corder to turn it on.
2 Insert a video cassette into the video cassette re-
corder.
When a video cassette whose recording protection
tab is broken is inserted, the video cassette recorder
automatically starts playback.
3 Press the PLAY button.
• Playback starts.
• Tape tracking is automatically adjusted.
5 Press the STOP button to discontinue playback.
5 When noise is generated in playback, press the
AUTO button on the remote control unit to switch
off the automatic tracking mode and manually ad-
just tape tracking with the TRACKING + and - but-
tons.
Fast-forwarding/Rewinding
Press the FF button or REW button when the tape re-
mains stopping.
• Fast-forwarding or rewinding stops when the tape
reaches its end or beginning.
• If the POWER button is pressed within 2 seconds
after the REW button is pressed, the video cassette
recorder is turned off after the tape is completely
rewound to its beginning.
If the PLAY button is pressed within 2 seconds af-
ter the REW button is pressed, the video cassette
recorder starts playback of the tape.
Fast-forwarding/Rewinding while looking at picture
Momentarily press the FF button or REW button in
playback.
• The video cassette recorder starts search playback
in the normal (FF button) or reverse (REW button)
direction at a speed 7 times as fast as the normal in
the SP mode or 21 times as fast as the normal in
the EP mode.
• To play back the tape normally, press the PLAY
button.
• If the FF button or REW button is continuously
pressed for 2 seconds or longer in playback, the
tape is fast played back in the normal (FF button)
or reverse (REW button) direction (5 times as fast
as the normal in the SP mode or 7 times as fast as
the normal in the EP mode). When the FF or REW
button is released from pressing, playback speed
reverts to the normal.
Still playback/Frame-to-frame play-
back/Slow playback
Press the PAUSE button in playback.
• The playback picture becomes still.
• When the still picture fluctuates up and down, ad-
just tracking with the TRACKING +/- button
on the remote controller so that the picture be
comes stable.
Press the PAUSE button in the still playback mode.
• Each time the PAUSE button is pressed in the still
playback mode, pictures are played back from
frame to frame.
• If the same operation is performed in the reverse
playback mode, pictures are played back from
frame to frame in the reverse direction.
Continuously press the PAUSE button in playback for
2 seconds or longer.
• Playback speed goes down to 1/6 of the normal
speed (slow playback).
• When noise is generated in this operation, adjust
tracking with the TRACKING +/- button on the re-
mote controller so that noise is minimized.
• If the same operation is performed in the reverse
playback, slow playback is operated in the reverse
direction.
5 To return to the normal playback from the slow
playback, press the PLAY button.
• In playback at a speed different from the normal
(in fast/slow playback), no sound is output from
the video cassette recorder.
• If noise is generated in the fast playback, reverse
playback or slow playback, it does not come from
machine trouble.
• If still playback or slow playback is continuously
operated for 5 minutes or longer, the video cas-
sette recorder automatically stops playback for pro-
tecting the tape.
• If a badly recorded video tape or tape on which
recording was performed by a different machine is
played back, tracking adjustment occasionally re-
sults in failure.
• Automatic tracking is automatically activated the
moment the video cassette recorder is turned on
or a cassette is inserted.
Repeated playback
Press the PLAY button in playback for 5 seconds or more.
(The PLAY indication blinks.)
• The tape is repeatedly played back from the begin-
ning to the end 20 times, and the 20th playback
ends at the end of the tape.
5 To discontinue repeated playback halfway, press
the STOP button.