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Playing a cassette
a Put a cassette into the cassette slot. ’v’ will appear on
the display.
b Press the PLAY G button.
c To stop, press the STOP h button.
d To eject the cassette, press the STOP/EJECT ? button
on the video recorder. To eject a cassette, you can also
use the EJECT J button on the remote control
DSome hired cassettes may have a poor picture or
poor sound quality. This is not a fault in your
machine. Please read ’Eliminating picture
interference’.
DSome functions switch off automatically after a
while (for example, pause, still picture, picture
search). This helps to protect the cassette and
avoids wasting power.
Playing NTSC cassettes
With this set you can playback cassettes that have been
recorded on another video recorder in the NTSC standard (for
example, American cassettes). But this only works for
PAL-television sets which are suitable for a picture frequency
of 60 Hz.
DSome special features (for example, still picture) are
not possible while you are playing an NTSC
cassette.
Tape position indication
When playing a tape, by pressing the OK button, you can
show the present tape position on the TV screen.
You have a choise of selecting ’LINEAR COUNTER’or
’TIME LEFT’. The LINEAR COUNTER shows the tape position
in hours, minutes and seconds. This LINEAR COUNTER is reset
to 0:00:00 everytime a cassette is inserted even if the tape is
not at the beginning. You can also reset to 0:00:00 by pushing
the CLEAR (CL), y button. ’TIME LEFT’ shows the actual
amount of playing/recording time left on the cassette in hours
and minutes.
DWhen you play an NTSC cassette, the video
recorder will only show ’LINEAR COUNTER’.
a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme
number for the video recorder.
b Press the MENU button on the remote control. The main
menu will appear.
c Select the line ’COUNTER’ with the Pq or P r button
and confirm with the OK button.
d Select the type of counter with the Pq button and
confirm with the OK button.
DTo reset the tape position ’LINEAR COUNTER’to
’0:00:00’, press the CLEAR(CL), y button.
e To end, press the TV/STANDBY m button.
DThis video recorder will automatically recognise the
length of the tape.
DWhen you put a cassette in the video recorder and
you want to see ’TIME LEFT’, the video recorder
must first calculate the time played. Therefore, ’-:--’
appears first and only after the tape has been
running for a few seconds the playing time will be
shown.
DIf the video recorder does not find a recording at a
certain tape position with ’LINEAR COUNTER’
switched on, the counter will stop.
Searching for tape position with the picture
(picture search)
a While a cassette is playing, press the [ (reverse) or
I (forward) button once or several times.
b To stop a certain place on the tape, press the PLAY G
button.
DDuring picture search, the picture quality may not be
so good and there will be no sound.
Still picture
a Press the STILL R button. A still picture will appear on
the screen.
Interference stripes will appear on the screen.
b Each time you press STILL R again, the picture will
move on one step.
4. PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS
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