Philips VR 708A/07 DVR User Manual


 
SELECTING TAPE POSITION DISPLAY TYPE ENGLISH
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If the
CCOOUUNNTTEERR
button is pressed during playback and recording
the current tape position will be briefly displayed on the screen.
There are three different types of display available.
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This is normal, and is necessary for technical
reasons.
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This may happen, for example, when you insert an
incompletely-rewound cassette into the video
recorder and rewind it to the start of the tape.
Since the display is automatically reset to
00:00:00 when you insert a cassette, the
actual start of the cassette for the set is less than
zero - thus in the negative range.The tape position
is displayed with a minus sign -.
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The set needs a little time to calculate the remaining
playing time.After a few seconds, the display should
change from --:--:-- to the corresponding value
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2 By pressing the button
CCOOUUNNTTEERR
the
current tape position will be displayed on the
screen. Each further press of the button
CCOOUUNNTTEERR
activates the next type of display
1 Start playback (Play button G) or recording
(Record button n)
3 As soon as the button
CCOOUUNNTTEERR
has not
been pressed for a few seconds, the display of
the tape position disappears again.
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COUNTER : The display shows the number of
minutes of tape already played after
insertion of the cassette
(hours/minutes/seconds)
TIME LEFT: The display shows the remaining
playing time to the end of the
cassette (hours/minutes/seconds)
TIME USED : The actual tape position (from the
start of the tape to the present tape
position) will be displayed.
PLAY COUNTER
P08 00:00:00