Names and Functions of Parts

Front panel

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[PLAY] button/LED
•	Press this button to start playing back a
	tape. During playback, the green LED lights
	up.
• When recording is paused, press this but-
	ton to resume recording.
[PAUSE] button/LED
• During recording, press this button to pause
	it.
•	In the PLAYBACK or STOP mode, press
	this button to enter the STILL mode. In the
	RECORDING PAUSE or STILL mode, the
	green LED lights up.
•	When BR-HD50 is in the STILL mode,

[STOP] button/LED

•Press this button to stop operation.

•When BR-HD50 is in the STANDBY-OFF mode, press this button to enter the STANDBY-ON mode.

•While stopped, the LED lights green.

Memo

There are two stop modes.

zSTANDBY-OFF: For protecting the tape and the drum, the drum does not rotate.

zSTANDBY-ON: The drum rotates so that it starts up faster after BR-HD50 moves into another mode.

1Cassette loading slot/LED

•For loading a cassette into or unloading it from the slot.

Insert a standard DV cassette or a mini DV cassette. (XPage 37)

•When BR-HD50 is in the OPERATE OFF state and a cassette is loaded, it changes to the OPERATE ON state.

•With a cassette loaded, the LED lights up in green.

When a cassette is being loaded or ejected, the LED flashes.

2[OPERATE] button/LED

•Press this button to turn on the power and BR- HD50 becomes ready for operation.

(OPERATE ON)

Press this button again when BR-HD50 is already on to turn off the power. (OPERATE OFF)

•OPERATE LED lights up as follows.

OPERATE ON	: the green LED lights up
OPERATE OFF : the red LED lights up
VCR error	: the red LED blinks

Memo

zIf DC IN MODE in the SYSTEM [2/2] Menu screen is set to “OPE ON”, and power is sup- plied to the DC IN terminal on the rear panel, power is turned on and the unit enters OPER- ATE ON mode without pressing this button.

zEven after the power is turned off with this but- ton, BR-HD50 is live with a small amount of electricity.

Therefore, if BR-HD50 is not to be used for a long period of time, please remove the AC adapter to save energy.

3[EJECT] button

• Press this button to eject the cassette.

Memo

zIt takes about 6 seconds for the cassette to be ejected.

zThe cassette can be ejected even when BR- HD50 is in the OPERATE OFF mode. After the eject action is completed, BR-HD50 returns to the OPERATE OFF mode.

4Operation buttons

[REC] button/LED

•Hold down this button and press the PLAY button to start recording. During recording, the red LED lights up.

•Hold down this button and press the PAUSE button to pause recording.

•If this button is pressed during recording, an index signal is recorded on the tape (when INDEX WRITE in the SYSTEM [2/2] Menu screen is set to ON).

•When this button is pressed in the STOP mode, the time code generator value can be checked while the button is being held down. If TC DUPLI.: DV Menu is set to AUTO, the time code, date and time of the IEEE1394 terminal can be checked. (In DV mode only)

press this button for frame advance play-

back. (In DV mode only)

Memo

Still images or images in frame advance can be selected with STL/F.ADV: DV of the SYSTEM [1/ 2] Menu screen.

[FF] button/LED

•When BR-HD50 enters the STOP mode, press this button to fast-forward the tape.

•When BR-HD50 is in the PLAYBACK or STILL mode, press this button for fast-for- ward playback. The fast forward playback speed can be changed by pressing the SEARCH+/S button h or the SEARCH–/ Q button (when “Q, S” KEY FUNC. in the SYSTEM [1/2] Menu screen is set to VAR/RECV.

(XPage 53 “Slow playback and Search mode”)

•During fast-forwarding or fast-forward play- back, the LED lights up in green.

[REW] button/LED

•When BR-HD50 enters the STOP mode, press this button to rewind the tape.

•When BR-HD50 is in the PLAYBACK or STILL mode, press this button for reverse playback. The rewind playback speed can be changed by pressing the SEARCH+/S button h or the SEARCH–/Q button (when “Q, S” KEY FUNC. in the SYS- TEM [1/2] Menu screen is set to VAR/ RECV.

(XPage 53 “Slow playback and Search mode”)

•During rewinding or rewind playback, the LED lights up in green.

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JVC BR-HD50 manual Names and Functions of Parts

Models: BR-HD50