Cassette tape playback Special playback | Toshiba SD-38VBKB instruction

Cassette tape playback

Special playback

Preparation:

Picture Search

• Turn ON the TV and set to the AV input mode.

Reverse picture search function

• Press VCR to select the VCR mode. (The VCR indicator will light.)

Press REV once or twice during the playback.

Load a pre-recorded tape

To resume normal playback: Press PLAY.

(When loading a cassette tape

Forward picture search function

without the erase prevention

Press FWD once or twice during the playback.

tab, playback will start auto-

matically).

To resume normal playback: Press PLAY.

To start playback

Still Picture

Press PLAY.

Press PAUSE/STEP during playback.

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Playback will start.

To resume normal playback: Press PLAY.

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Slow Motion

To stop playback

During playback, press SLOW.

You can change the slow speed by pressing SLOW several times.

Press STOP.

To resume normal playback: Press PLAY.

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Slow tracking and vertical lock adjustment

To rewind the tape or forward it rapidly

If noise bars appear in the picture during slow motion, press SET

Stop the playback or recording with STOP.

+ or – to reduce the noise bars.

To rewind the tape:

To forward the tape:

If the still picture jitters excessively, press SET + or – to stabilize

the still picture.

Press REV.

Press FWD.

Frame by Frame picture

During playback, press PAUSE/STEP repeatedly: The picture

advances frame by frame.

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To resume normal playback: Press PLAY.

To stop the tape-winding, press STOP. To switch to playback directly

Adjusting tracking condition

(without STOP), press PLAY.

Automatic tracking adjustment

Whenever you insert a tape and start playback, automatic tracking

Forward/Reverse picture search mode

starts working and continuously analyzes the signal to enable

When the tape is being wound, you can switch to picture search mode

optimum picture quality during playback.

(see page 21). To do this, press REV or FWD and hold it down. The

Manual tracking adjustment

unit will resume the tape winding as soon as the button is released.

If automatic tracking cannot eliminate noises well during

playback, press SET + or SET – to eliminate the noises. “MANUAL

NTSC video cassette playback

TR.” will appear. Press it briefly for a fine adjustment, or press and

hold for a coarse adjustment.

When using a pre-recorded NTSC video cassette tape, the connected

TV must operate with a 60 Hz vertical frequency. Otherwise, the on-

To return to automatic tracking, press ATR.

screen picture will be affected by vertical rolling. Even if your VCR is

Notes:

capable of processing NTSC video signals, the picture may be

•

The audio output is muted during spe-

Notes:

shortened vertically (appearance of black bars at the top and at the

cial playback.

Instant skip

bottom of the TV screen). The dubbing of a NTSC video cassette tape

•

During picture search mode, there will

Press INSTANT SKIP during playback. The DVD/VCR will search

• This VCR selects the playback tape

to a standard PAL VCR is impossible.

be noise bars which are caused by the

forward through approximately 30 seconds of the tape (e.g. unwanted

speed SP or LP automatically.

system.

commercial time) for each press of INSTANT SKIP (maximum six

• The cassette tape and DVD disc can

•

The Special Playback will automati-

presses) and then resume normal playback.

be played back simultaneously. If you

cally change to normal playback after

press VCR or DVD, the tape playback

approx. 5 minutes to protect the video

For example: 1 press: 30 seconds of tape

and DVD playback alternate with each

tape against excessive wear.

2 press: 60 seconds of tape

other on the screen.

3 press: 90 seconds of tape

Repeat playback

Counter display

Normal repeat playback

ZERO RETURN function

Preparation

The entire video tape will be played until its end. The tape will then

This function makes tape-rewinding

• Turn ON the TV and set to the video input mode.

automatically rewind to the beginning and the playback will be re-

stop at the counter 00:00:00 position

• Press VCR to select the VCR mode. (The VCR indicator will light.)

peated.

automatically.

1 Press CALL.

Press VCR MENU. Press or

to select AUTO REPEAT.

The counter display shows the

12:00 SUN

tape running time during play-

back or recording.

The Recorder will indicate REC

during recording.

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00:04:38 SP

2 Then press / or ENTER to se-

2 Press COUNTER RESET at

lect [ON] or [OFF].

If [ON] is selected, the playback

the desired tape position. The

12:00 SUN

will be repeated endlessly.

counter display will be reset to

the “00:00:00” position (e.g.

the beginning of recording).

3 Press VCR MENU repeatedly until the menu screen is

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00:00:00 SP

cleared.

To start the playback, press PLAY.

Press STOP when playback or

3 recording is finished.

4 The playback will be repeated endlessly.

Press ZERO RETURN.

To cancel normal repeat mode:

The tape will be rewinded or fast

forwarded and automatically

Follow the above step 2, then press

/ or ENTER to select the

stop at the “00:00:00” position.

[OFF] position.

Press VCR MENU repeatedly to return to the TV screen.

The CLOCK/COUNTER button

Pressthe tapeCLOCK/COUNTERrewoundduringtheoverplaybackthe point.Theof 00:00:00,clockandthetapeminus mark

counter alternate with each other on the display.

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Note:

If the unit is turned off or starts recording,

You can set the tape counter to 00:00:00 with COUNTER RESET

the repeat mode is cancelled.

Notes:

anytime. Therefore, the counter display can also indicate 00:00:00,

• When you load a video cassette, the

even when the tape counter does not reach its beginning yet. Even

display indication changes to "00:00".

if the tape counter indicates 00:00:00, it can be rewound. If

• The counter display does not function

was

on non-recorded (blank) sections of the

in the counter display. Although the tape counter seems to forward

tape. When you rewind, fast forward or

when you press REV, the tape is in fact being rewound. When the

play tapes through blank sections, the

tape reaches the beginning, the tape-rewinding stops

counter display stops.

automatically.