Playing a cassette
1
Put a cassette into the cassette slot. ’
v
’ will appear on
the display.
2
Press the
G
button.
This will, for example, appear in the display.
0:00:
02
3
To stop, press the
h
button.
4
To eject the cassette, press
J
on the video recorder
when the video recorder is in STOP mode.
Note:
Some hired cassettes may have a poor picture or poor
sound quality. This is not a fault in your machine. Please
read ’Eliminating picture interference’.
* Some functions switch off automatically after a while (for
example, pause, still picture, picture search). This helps to
protect the cassette and avoids wasting power.
* For playback, the correct recording speed will
automatically be selected. Please read the section
’Selecting the recording speed (SP or LP)’ in the chapter
’MANUAL RECORDING’.
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
’ or ’
T.LEFT
’.
•
’
LINEAR
’ will show the tape position in hours, minutes
and seconds.
•
’
T.LEFT
’ will show the actual amount of
playing/recording time left on the tape in hours and
minutes.
1
Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme
number for the video recorder.
2
Press
MENU
on the remote control. The main menu will
appear.
3
Select the line ’
SPECIAL SETTINGS
’ with
;
P+
or
P-
=
and confirm with
OK
.
SPECIAL SETTINGS
OSD
è ON
p
CLOCK DISPLAY
OFF
COUNTER
T.LEFT
SAT RECORDING
OFF
REPEAT PLAY
OFF
DIRECT RECORD
OFF
________________________________
EXITpMENU
STOREpOK
4
Select the line ’
COUNTER
’ with
;
P+
or
P-
=
.
5
Select ’
LINEAR
’ or ’
T.LEFT
’ with
Q
or
P
and
confirm with
OK
.
Note:
The counter ’
LINEAR
’ will be set to ’
0:00:00
’ when
you put a cassette in the machine. You can also reset the
tape position to ’
0:00:00
’ when you press
CLEAR (CL)
.
* If you rewind a cassette from the tape position ’
0:00:00
’,
the counter ’
LINEAR
’ will show for instance, ’
-0:01:20
’
(the cassette will be rewound to 1 minute and 20 seconds
before ’
0:00:00
’).
* If there is an empty space on the tape, the counter
’
LINEAR
’ will stop running.
* The counter type ’
T.LEFT
’ will automatically recognise
the length of the tape.
When you put in a cassette 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.
6
To end, press
MENU
.
Searching for tape position with the picture
(picture search)
1
While a cassette is playing, press
H
(reverse) or
I
(forward) once or several times.
This will, for example, appear in the display.
0:30:
21
2
To stop a certain place on the tape, press
G
.
Note:
During picture search, the picture quality may not be
so good and there will be no sound.
4.
PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS
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