Sony DCR-HC54, DCR-HC52 manual Playing the picture on a TV, TV through a VCR, Audio input jack

Playing the picture on a TV

You can connect your camcorder to the input jack of a TV or a VCR using the A/V connecting cable (1) or the A/V connecting cable with S VIDEO (2). Connect your camcorder to the wall outlet (wall socket) using the supplied AC Adaptor for this operation (p. 12). Refer also to the instruction manuals supplied with the devices to be connected.

	Device without an		Device with an
	S VIDEO jack		S VIDEO jack
			(Black)
	(Yellow)
1			(White)
A/V Remote	(White)
			(Red)
Connector
	(Red)		(Yellow)
: Signal flow	2		VCRs or TVs
AA/V connecting cable (supplied)		When connecting your camcorder to a
Connect to the input jack of another device.		TV through a VCR
BA/V connecting cable with S
		Connect your camcorder to the LINE IN
VIDEO (optional)
		input on the VCR. Set the input selector on
When connecting to another device via the S
		the VCR to LINE (VIDEO 1, VIDEO 2,
VIDEO jack, by using the A/V connecting
		etc.), if the VCR has an input selector.
cable with an S VIDEO cable, pictures can be
reproduced more faithfully than with the		When your TV is monaural (Only one
supplied A/V cable connection.
Connect the white and red plugs (left/right		audio input jack)
audio) and S VIDEO plug (S VIDEO		Connect the yellow plug of the A/V
channel) of an A/V connecting cable. In this
		connecting cable to the video input jack and
case, the yellow (standard video) plug
		connect the white (left channel) or the red
connection is not necessary. S VIDEO
connection only will not output audio.		(right channel) plug to the audio input jack
		of your TV or VCR.

zTips

•You can display the time code on the TV screen by setting [DISP OUT] to [V-OUT/LCD]

(p. 43).

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