E-10
NAMES AND FUNCTIONS OF PARTS
Front panel
1
Cassette loading slot/LED
• For loading a cassette into or unloading it
from the slot.
Insert a standard DV cassette or a mini DV
cassette. (
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Page 37)
• When BR-HD50 is in the OPERATE OFF
state and a cassette is loaded, it changes to
the OPERATE ON state.
• With a cassette loaded, the LED lights up in
green.
When a cassette is being loaded or ejected,
the LED flashes.
2
[OPERATE] button/LED
• Press this button to turn on the power and BR-
HD50 becomes ready for operation.
(OPERATE ON)
Press this button again when BR-HD50 is
already on to turn off the power. (OPERATE OFF)
• OPERATE LED lights up as follows.
OPERATE ON : the green LED lights up
OPERATE OFF : the red LED lights up
VCR error
: the red LED blinks
Memo
z
If DC IN MODE in the SYSTEM [2/2] Menu
screen is set to “OPE ON”, and power is sup-
plied to the DC IN terminal on the rear panel,
power is turned on and the unit enters OPER-
ATE ON mode without pressing this button.
z
Even after the power is turned off with this but-
ton, BR-HD50 is live with a small amount of
electricity.
Therefore, if BR-HD50 is not to be used for a
long period of time, please remove the AC
adapter to save energy.
3
[EJECT] button
• Press this button to eject the cassette.
Memo
z
It takes about 6 seconds for the cassette to be
ejected.
z
The cassette can be ejected even when BR-
HD50 is in the OPERATE OFF mode. After the
eject action is completed, BR-HD50 returns to
the OPERATE OFF mode.
4
Operation buttons
[REC] button/LED
• Hold down this button and press the PLAY
button to start recording. During recording,
the red LED lights up.
• Hold down this button and press the
PAUSE button to pause recording.
• If this button is pressed during recording, an
index signal is recorded on the tape (when
INDEX WRITE in the SYSTEM [2/2] Menu
screen is set to ON).
• When this button is pressed in the STOP
mode, the time code generator value can
be checked while the button is being held
down. If TC DUPLI.: DV Menu is set to
AUTO, the time code, date and time of the
IEEE1394 terminal can be checked. (In DV
mode only)
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3
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[PLAY] button/LED
• Press this button to start playing back a
tape. During playback, the green LED lights
up.
• When recording is paused, press this but-
ton to resume recording.
[PAUSE] button/LED
• During recording, press this button to pause
it.
• In the PLAYBACK or STOP mode, press
this button to enter the STILL mode. In the
RECORDING PAUSE or STILL mode, the
green LED lights up.
• When BR-HD50 is in the STILL mode,
press this button for frame advance play-
back. (In DV mode only)
Memo
Still images or images in frame advance can be
selected with STL/F.ADV: DV of the SYSTEM [1/
2] Menu screen.
[FF] button/LED
• When BR-HD50 enters the STOP mode,
press this button to fast-forward the tape.
• When BR-HD50 is in the PLAYBACK or
STILL mode, press this button for fast-for-
ward playback. The fast forward playback
speed can be changed by pressing the
/
S
button
h
or the SEARCH–/
Q
button (when “
Q
,
S
” KEY FUNC. in
the SYSTEM [1/2] Menu screen is set to
VAR/RECV.
(
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Page 53 “Slow playback and Search
mode”)
• During fast-forwarding or fast-forward play-
back, the LED lights up in green.
[STOP] button/LED
• Press this button to stop operation.
• When BR-HD50 is in the STANDBY-OFF
mode, press this button to enter the
STANDBY-ON mode.
• While stopped, the LED lights green.
Memo
There are two stop modes.
z
STANDBY-OFF: For protecting the tape and
the drum, the drum does not rotate.
z
STANDBY-ON: The drum rotates so that it
starts up faster after BR-HD50 moves into
another mode.
[REW] button/LED
• When BR-HD50 enters the STOP mode,
press this button to rewind the tape.
• When BR-HD50 is in the PLAYBACK or
STILL mode, press this button for reverse
playback. The rewind playback speed can
be changed by pressing the /
S
button
h
or the SEARCH–/
Q
button
(when “
Q
,
S
” KEY FUNC. in the SYS-
TEM [1/2] Menu screen is set to VAR/
RECV.
(
X
Page 53 “Slow playback and Search
mode”)
• During rewinding or rewind playback, the
LED lights up in green.
