Setting CA Playback

This setting tells the recorder whether or not to auto- matically start skipping or scanning when a commer- cial group start point is reached during playback.

Perform the following setting while the recorder is in the stop mode:

1.Press SETUP.

2.Use v / V to choose CA PLAYBACK, and then press B.

3.Use v / V to choose the desired option, and then press ENTER.

•[OFF]: The recorder plays normally. You can skip a commercial message by pushing > or . button on remote control (See Tips in this page).

•[SCAN]: Plays commercial messages back using fast forward playback (commercial will be visually scanned at high speed).

•[SKIP]: Skips commercial messages using skip

playback (cutting out commercial messages).

To take full advantage of the COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® feature, set this option to SCAN or SKIP.

Notes:

•If you specify [CA PLAYBACK: SCAN], commercial portions are visually scanned at a speed of four times the normal.

•When using the timer to record two adjacent shows on the same channel, you may wish to program each show separately so that prologues are not automatically skipped.

Tips:

Skip operation during playback of a program:

•If you press the > button on remote control during playback of a program as shown below, the recorder will skip to the beginning of the next commercial and continue playback.

Program Commercial Program

PLAY

•If you press the . button on remote control dur- ing playback of a program as shown below, the recorder will skip to the beginning of that program portion and continue playback.

PLAY

Skip operation during playback of commercial:

•If you press the > button on remote control during playback of a commercial as shown below, the recorder will skip to the beginning of the next pro- gram portion and continue playback.

PLAY

•If you press the . button on remote control dur- ing playback of a commercial as shown below, the recorder will skip to the beginning of that commer- cial and continue playback.

PLAY

COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® RECORD OPERATION

During recordings, the recorder monitors the picture and sound for possible commercial group start and end points. A microcomputer in the recorder utilizes the COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® detection algorithm to determine commercial start and end points. At the end of a recording (which must be at least 15 min. long), these points are stored in the product’s memory.