RCA VR270 Basic Operating Controls and Displays, Inserting and Removing Cassettes, Area

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Basic Operating Controls and Displays

Now that you have connected your VCR to your TV and antenna or cable-TV system, you are ready to turn it on. You don't need to know all the details about the

controls and displays before you begin using your new VCR, so only those you will use for basic recording and playback are discussed here. (Additional information about the controls is on pages 18 and 19.)

After you have read about the basic control functions on this page. turn on your VCR and check the installation by following the instructions on the next two pages.

(_ POWER Button: Turns the VCR on and off. (If the VCR is already off, inserting a cassette will automatically turn it on).

STOP/EJECT Button:

• Stops whatever the VCR is doing (record, playback, rewind, or fast forward).

•When VCR is stopped, press this button to eject the cassette.

Cassette Compartment: Push the cassette through the door as shown below to load it, Cassette-ln

indicator (_) turns on.

REW Button: Rewinds the tape when the VCR is stopped.

PLA Y Button: Starts playback. If you insert a cassette with the tab removed, the tape will automatically play.

A UTO PROG/ADD/ERASE Buttons: These

buttons are used to auto program channels into the VCR and to add and erase channels from the

channel memory. Details are on page 12.

®TAPE SPEED Button and Indicators: Press this button to change recording speed. The lighted indicator tells the tape speed. (Use "SLP" for normal recording.)

®CHANNEL "_'/& Buttons and Display: After channels are programmed, • selects the next lower channel and • selects the next higher channel. The channel number appears in the display.

®RECORD/XPR Button: Press to begin normal

recording. Press twice to enter Express Recording mode.

@Time Display: The time is normally shown here. If

the

clock has stopped you will see "----:----"

in

this

area.

 

®Status Displays: Tell what the VCR is doing (t> for

playback,

_

for record. <]<_ for rewind. I>t>

for fast

forward,

0D for pause/. This area is blank

when the VCR is turned off.

®.[m_-.[] Cassette-InIndicator:. Lights when a cassette ts m the compartment.

®Indicator:. This indicator is controlled by the TV VCR button on the remote control. It

indicates the picture source that is being fed to your TV.

•VCR Indicator is off when TV receives picture from VHF antenna or cable-TV system as it d!d before you connected your VCR.

•VCR Indicator is on when TV receives picture from VCR tuner or tape cassette that is playing.

TV must be tuned to VCR Channel (3 or 4) when VCR indicator is on.

Inserting and Removing Cassettes

1o tn_,er't:

Push the cassette

through

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the door until the VCR mechanism

To

Eject: VCR

must

be in the stop

 

 

 

 

 

 

pulls

it into

the

compartment.

VCR

mode.

RevAnd

the

cassette

before

To

Remove:

The

cassette gill come

power

automatically

turns

on

and

the

ejecting

it.

Press

STOP/EJECT

partially

oul

of

the compartmem

so

cassette-in

indicalor

turns

on when

the

Button.

"rape

may

be ejected

when

you

can

pull

it OUt. Pul the cassette

irl

cassette

is

in

place.

 

 

 

 

VCR

is

turned

off.

 

 

its

box

and store

it upright.

 

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