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Playback
Playing back
Preparation: Turn on a Monitor set or TV set connected with the video cassette recorder and set it to an exter- nal input mode (VIDEO 1, VIDEO 2, etc.).
1Press the POWER button of the video cassette re- corder to turn it on.
2Insert a video cassette into the video cassette re- corder.
When a video cassette whose recording protection tab is broken is inserted, the video cassette recorder automatically starts playback.
3Press the PLAY button.
•Playback starts.
•Tape tracking is automatically adjusted.
5Press the STOP button to discontinue playback.
5When noise is generated in playback, press the AUTO button on the remote control unit to switch off the automatic tracking mode and manually ad- just tape tracking with the TRACKING + and - but- tons.
Fast-forwarding/Rewinding
Press the FF button or REW button when the tape re- mains stopping.
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•If the POWER button is pressed within 2 seconds after the REW button is pressed, the video cassette recorder is turned off after the tape is completely rewound to its beginning.
If the PLAY button is pressed within 2 seconds af- ter the REW button is pressed, the video cassette recorder starts playback of the tape.
•The video cassette recorder starts search playback in the normal (FF button) or reverse (REW button) direction at a speed 7 times as fast as the normal in the SP mode or 21 times as fast as the normal in the EP mode.
•To play back the tape normally, press the PLAY button.
•If the FF button or REW button is continuously pressed for 2 seconds or longer in playback, the tape is fast played back in the normal (FF button) or reverse (REW button) direction (5 times as fast as the normal in the SP mode or 7 times as fast as the normal in the EP mode). When the FF or REW button is released from pressing, playback speed reverts to the normal.
Still playback/Frame-to-frame play- back/Slow playback
Press the PAUSE button in playback.
•The playback picture becomes still.
•When the still picture fluctuates up and down, ad- just tracking with the TRACKING +/- button
on the remote controller so that the picture be comes stable.
Press the PAUSE button in the still playback mode.
•Each time the PAUSE button is pressed in the still playback mode, pictures are played back from frame to frame.
•If the same operation is performed in the reverse playback mode, pictures are played back from frame to frame in the reverse direction.
Continuously press the PAUSE button in playback for 2 seconds or longer.
•Playback speed goes down to 1/6 of the normal speed (slow playback).
•When noise is generated in this operation, adjust tracking with the TRACKING +/- button on the re- mote controller so that noise is minimized.
•If the same operation is performed in the reverse playback, slow playback is operated in the reverse direction.
5To return to the normal playback from the slow playback, press the PLAY button.
•In playback at a speed different from the normal (in fast/slow playback), no sound is output from the video cassette recorder.
•If noise is generated in the fast playback, reverse playback or slow playback, it does not come from machine trouble.
•If still playback or slow playback is continuously operated for 5 minutes or longer, the video cas- sette recorder automatically stops playback for pro- tecting the tape.
•If a badly recorded video tape or tape on which recording was performed by a different machine is played back, tracking adjustment occasionally re- sults in failure.
•Automatic tracking is automatically activated the moment the video cassette recorder is turned on or a cassette is inserted.
Repeated playback
Press the PLAY button in playback for 5 seconds or more. (The PLAY indication blinks.)
• The tape is repeatedly played back from the begin- ning to the end 20 times, and the 20th playback ends at the end of the tape.
5To discontinue repeated playback halfway, press the STOP button.