General Maintenance

PLAYBACK OF PRE-RECORDED

CASSETTE

Symptom

Check Point & Correction

]'hePLAY button cannot be engaged.

Set the CAM/OFF/VIDEO switch to VIDEO.

_1opicture appears on television screen when The 3LAY is pressed. (TV is connected to the camcorder :_yusing RF converter unit.)

nterference on playback picture. (TV is connected :o the camcorder by using RF converter unit.)

Set the television to the camcorder channel (3 or 4) depending upon the selected channel in the RF channel select switch of RF converter unit.

When you see the playback picture on your TV, adjust fine tuning knob on television set to obtain best picture.

3icture bends at the top of the TV screen.

TV receiver is older type. It needs to be modified to work properly with camcorder.

Tape is damaged. Try another cassette.

Solor of your TV screen is too bright, too faint or _'hange.

::)ate search function does not operate.

BATTERY CONDITION

TV set has VIR circuit. Turn it off during playback.

Slide the CAM/OFF VIDEO switch to VIDEO.

Insert the clock battery, set the date and time, then start recording.

Do not remove the clock battery after recording.

Do not eject the recorded cassette. Leave it in the camcorder.

Symptom

_heck Point & Correction

]'he(_) indication in the electronic viewfinder or on

Try another battery or charge the battery.

:he LCD monitor flashes to indicate battery is

 

Jischarged.

 

]'he battery level indicator (_) appears differently on :he LCD monitor and in the viewfinder.

This does not indicate a fault; it is because the power ,'onsumed by the LCD monitor and the viewfinder is Jifferent.

NO OPERATION IS ACCEPTED

Symptom

3ower is turned on, but no :_uttonoperations are accepted,

Check Point & Correction

Remove the power source and the clock battery. And after about one minute, the display in the viewfinder or on the LCD monitor will be reset. Then set the information again.

TAPE DISPLAY

 

 

Symptom

_,heck Point & Correction

 

'TAPE"appears in the

. Have you moved the camcorder or cassette from a cold place to a warm

place so that

Jiewfinder or on the

ts temperature changed abruptly? If the temperature has changed, remove

the

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Hitachi VM H 655 LA instruction manual Battery Condition, No Operation is Accepted, Tape Display