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Language Setting

AAccess Main Menu screen, then
Initial Set screen
Press MENU on the remote control. Press
rt to place the pointer next to “INITIAL
SET”, then press OK or e.
BAccess Language Select screen
Press rt to place the pointer next to “LANGUAGE”, then press
OK or e.
CSelect language
Press rt to place the pointer next to the
language of your choice (English, Russian
or Arabic), then press OK or e.
Press MENU to return to normal screen.

Clock Setting

AAccess Main Menu screen, then Initial Set screen
Press MENU on the remote control. Press rt to place the
pointer next to “INITIAL SET”, then press OK or e.
BAccess Clock Set screen
Press rt to place the pointer next to
“CLOCK SET”, then press OK or e.
CSet time, date and year
Press rt until the desired time appears,
then press OK or e. Set the date and year
in the same way.
●Holding rt changes the time in
30-minute intervals, or changes the date
in 15-day intervals.
DStart clock
Press MENU and normal screen appears.
NOTE:
If the year digits are automatically cleared, it is possible that you
have input February 29th in a non-leap year. Input the correct
data.
To make corrections any time during the process
Press OK or e repeatedly until the item you want to change
blinks, then press rt.
Playback

Basic Playback

ALoad a cassette
Make sure the window side is up, the rear label side is facing you
and the arrow on the front of the cassette is pointing towards the
recorder.
●Do not apply too much pressure when inserting.
●The recorder turns on, and the counter on the on-screen display
is reset, automatically.
●Select the appropriate colour system with “PAL/MESECAM” and
“NTSC” in Function settings.
●If the cassette’s record safety tab has been removed, playback
begins automatically.
BStart playback
Press PLAY (4).
ATTENT ION
In the search, still, slow-motion or frame-by-frame playback
mode,
●the picture will be distorted.
●the noise bars will appear.
●there may be a loss of colour.
[ / ]
[MENU] : EXIT
MAIN MENU
FUNCTION SET
TUNER SET
INITIAL SET
[ / ]
[MENU] : EXIT
INITIAL SET
CLOCK SET
LANGUAGE
[ / ]
[MENU] : EXIT
INITIAL SET
CLOCK SET
LANGUAGE
[ / ]
[MENU] : EXIT
CLOCK SET
TIME DATE YEAR
0 : 00 01.01 01
Turn on the TV and select the video channel or AV mode.
During playback
Stop playback
Press STOP (8) on the
remote control. OR Press STOP/EJECT (0
) on
the recorder.
Pause playback and view still picture
Press PAUSE (9).
●Press PLAY (4) to resume normal playback.
Pause and Frame-by-Frame playback
Press PAUSE (9) to pause, then press 6 (or PAUSE (9))
repeatedly.
●Press PLAY (4) to resume normal playback.
High speed search
Press REW (3) or FF (5).
●Press PLAY (4) to resume normal playback.
●If you press and hold REW (3) or FF (5) for more than
2seconds, simply releasing it cancels the picture search, and
normal playback resumes.
Picture search at variable speed (including slow-motion)
Press w or e repeatedly.
●Press PLAY (4) to resume normal playback.
●Each time you press w or e, the playback speed changes. To
decrease the speed during picture search, press the opposite
direction button repeatedly.
●During still picture, press and hold e to start forward slow
motion playback. When you release the button, still picture
resumes. During still picture, holding PAUSE (9) for more than
2seconds also starts forward slow motion playback. If you
press PAUSE (9) again, still picture resumes.
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