12000 | Pioneer VP-1000 specification

OPERATION

Slide the SLOW SPEED lever, as shown in fig . 15, to adjust the speed of slow motion video play. Speed is continuously adjustable between the normal speed of 3D-frames per second and the maximum slow speed of 1-frame every 5 seconds. Note, however, that audio will not be reproduced in the slow forward mode, even if you set the SLOW SPEED lever to the normal speed (NORMAL) position.

STILL/STEP (standard play disc only)

Press this button for still video reproduction or step-by-step reproduction of a frame. Pressing either end of the key will produce a still video image. Then, each time you press the right end of the key, the image will advance to the next frame . Likewise, each time you press the left end of the key, the image will go backwards to the preceding frame.

FRAME NUMBER DISPLAY

Each frame on a standard play laser disc (CAV) is recorded along with its frame number, beginning with "1" for the first frame on the innermost track and advancing in numerical order with each succeeding frame. Frame numbers of frames being played will be displayed in the upper left hand part of the TV screen when you press the FRAME key. Press the FRAME key again to erase the frame number from the screen.

Frame numbers are not displayed for extended play (CLV) laser discs. Instead, the time elapsed since the beginning of the program is displayed digitally: The first one digits show hours, and the second two digits show minutes .

PICTURE STOP

Even though this would be a rare case, there is a function called picture stop which freeze the frame by a specially re corded code in the laser disc.

The freeze frame occurs when the player is in either normal play or slow motion with frame number displayed.

Even though a picture stop coded laser disc is played, the picture stop will not be implemented if the frame number is not displayed.

CHAPTER NUMBER DISPLAY

Laser discs containing more than one program are often recorded with convenient chapter number for each program segment (in addition to the frame numbers or the elapsed time) . This chapter number will be displayed as a one or two digit number in the upper left hand corner of the TV screen, as shown in fig. 17, when you press the CHAPTER key. Press the CHAPTER key again to erase the number. Both chapter numbers and frame numbers can be displayed on the screen together.

NOTE:

Some laser discs are not recorded with chapter numbers, there fore no chapter number can be displayed and the chapter stop and chapter search functions described below are not possible.

Fig. 15

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Fig. 16(a)

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Fig. 16(b)

Fig . 17