RCA Video Cassettes, Cassette Recording Time

RCA Video Cassettes

We recommend that RCA cassettes be used with your camcorder. The tape in these cassettes is of high-quality formulation. It has been manufactured to our critical specifications for excellent performance. Use of tape not meeting these specifications could considerably reduce the performance of your camcorder.

Use of poor quality tapes or tapes that have been damaged or mishandled can contaminate the video heads, resulting in a snowy picture or no picture at all during playback. Because there is no control over the type of tape purchased or rented by consumers, head cleaning is not covered under warranty. It is considered normal maintenance.

Playing a new RCA tape for approximately 30 minutes will often satisfactorily clean the heads and improve your picture.

Erase Protection–Record-Protect (Safety) Tab

You can use your video cassettes over and over again. To erase a previous recording, just record over it.

A.B.





	8	To Prevent	To Record
	8


Record-Protect		Erasure–Close	Again –Open
Tab		Record-Protect	Record-Protect
		Tab (Expose	Tab (Red
		Red)	Disappears)

A.To prevent erasing a recording you want to keep, close the cassette’s record-protect tab by sliding it in the direction of the arrow until the red area is completely visible.

B. To record again on the cassette, slide the record- protect tab open in the direction of the arrow until the red area disappears behind the cassette case.

Inserting and Removing Cassettes

OPEN Button

	Record-
	Protect Tab
EJECT Button	Tape
	Window

Press Here to Close

1.Attach a power supply to the camcorder.

2.Slide the OPEN button and completely open the cassette compartment cover.

3.Press the EJECT button to open the cassette compartment. Insert or remove the cassette.

Caution: Insert the cassette only one way with the record-protect tab facing up and the tape window facing out. The cassette should slide easily in the compartment. Do not force the cassette.

4.Close the cassette compartment door. Gently press on the area labeled PUSH as shown above.

5.After the cassette compartment is fully retracted, close the cassette compartment cover.

Recording and Playback Speeds and Times

The camcorder records in standard speed (SP). The chart in the next column shows the maximum SP recording times for some popular 8mm cassettes.

The camcorder can play back tapes in standard speed (SP) or long play (LP) speed. The playback speed is automatically selected by the camcorder. The LP indicator appears in the electronic viewfinder when the camcorder is playing back a tape recorded in the LP speed.

Cassette	Recording Time

P6-15	15	Minutes
P6-20	20	Minutes

P6-45	45	Minutes

P6-60	60	Minutes

P6-90	90	Minutes
P6-120	2	Hours

P6-150	2 1/2 Hours