OTHERS
TROUBLESHOOTING
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The remote control does not function. | • Batteries are weak. |
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| • The remote control unit is far from the main unit. |
| • There are no batteries in the remote control unit. |
| • The remote control is not pointed at the remote sensor on the unit. |
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The unit does not operate properly.
•When static electricity causes the unit to operate abnormally, unplug the unit and wait a few minutes, then plug it in again.
The disc tray does not open when you press A OPEN/CLOSE button in the main unit.
•It may take a few seconds for the disc tray to open after you have recorded or edited a disc.
•The unit may be adding disc data to the disc.
•The unit may still be recording.
My TV/VCR/DVD is showing captions that are misspelled.
•You are watching a live broadcast and spelling errors made by the closed captioning production company may pass through uncorrected. A prerecorded program will not show any misspelled words because of the normal time available for editing the captions.
My TV/VCR/DVD will not show the text dialogue in its entirety or there is a delay of what is being said.
•Captions that are delayed a few seconds behind the actual are common for live broadcast. Most captioning production companies can display a dialogue to a maximum of 220 words per minute. If a dialogue exceeds that rate, selective editing is used to insure that the captions remain
My captions are scrambled with white boxes on the TV screen.
•Interference caused by building, power lines, thunderstorms, etc. may cause scrambled or incomplete captions to appear.
My program guide listed a TV show as | • Broadcasters may at times use a time compression | ||||||||||
being closed captioned but none of | process to speed up the actual program so that additional | ||||||||||
the captions were displayed. | advertising time can be given. Since the decoder cannot | ||||||||||
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My prerecorded video tape does not | • The video tape was either an illegal copy or the tape | ||||||||||
show any captions. The tape box | duplicating company accidentally left out the captioning | ||||||||||
mentions it being closed captioned. | signals during the copying process. | ||||||||||
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My TV screen shows a black box on | • You are in the TEXT mode. Set CAPTION mode to | ||||||||||
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"Repairing" appears on the display. | • If there is a power failure or unplugging during recording, | ||||||||||
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| finalizing, formatting or editing, a Repairing process will |
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The DVD disc that I recorded will not be played on other DVD units.
•You must "Finalize" all recorded discs before they can be played on other DVD players. Without finalization, Video mode discs cannot be played back on other DVD players and VR mode discs cannot be played back on other VR compatible players (See "Finalizing Discs" on page 54).
The edited Playlist can not be used | • Confirm that the disc is recorded in VR mode and finalized |
with other DVD units. | properly. |
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I have finalized the DVD disc, but it will still | • Not all DVD recordable discs will be played on all DVD |
not be played back on other DVD units. | units. This is inherent in the DVD recordable format. |
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