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Setting up the video recorder
Safety instructions, Important points .............................................................................. 2
Cleaning your video recorder, The mains plug ................................................................ 3
Safety symbols, Power Cuts............................................................................................. 4
The controls ..................................................................................................................... 5
The remote control .......................................................................................................... 6
The front of the video recorder, On-screen display ......................................................... 7
Getting started ................................................................................................................ 8
Automatic video channel selection, Connecting extra equipment ................................ 10
The stand-by button ...................................................................................................... 11
What to do if you get picture interference ................................................................... 12
Auto set ......................................................................................................................... 13
Manual channel search ................................................................................................. 14
Changing programme numbers ...................................................................................... 16
Changing programme names ........................................................................................ 17
Erasing programmes ...................................................................................................... 18
Using the video recorder as a tuner, Child lock ............................................................ 19
Setting or checking the time and date .......................................................................... 20
About video cassettes
Types of video cassette, Recording and playback time of video cassettes
(SP and LP), Protecting cassettes from being recorded over .................................... 21
Playing video cassettes
Load the cassette, Play, Picture scanning, Stop,
Fast forward and Rewind, Eject the cassette ........................................................... 22
Still picture and slow-motion......................................................................................... 23
Commercial skip, NTSC playback, Wide-screen pictures .............................................. 24
Index search, Tracking and picture quality..................................................................... 25
On-screen information display ....................................................................................... 26
Tape control menu.......................................................................................................... 28
Recording
Long play ........................................................................................................................ 29
Recording from other equipment,
Protecting cassettes from being recorded over ............................................................ 30
Auto-assembling ........................................................................................................... 31
One-time recording (OTR) .............................................................................................. 32
Programmed recordings
Programme delivery control (PDC)...................................................................................33
Setting the timer ........................................................................................................... 34
Changing a timer programme, How to erase a timer programme ................................ 36
How to stop a programmed recording,
Important notes about programmed recordings ............................................................ 37
Appendix
Before you call an engineer (problems and what to do about them)............................. 38
Interference, Appendix1, Serial number record ............................................................ 39
Technical information .................................................................................................... 40
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