Advanced Features
Time Counter
Your VCR has a time counter that shows the amount of time the tape has run in hours, minutes, and seconds. This counter is useful when you want to find specific points on a tape. The counter will not work when playing blank tapes or on blank sections of tape, or when the VCRÕs power is off.
to make the time counter appear:
Press DISPLAY. The time counter will appear on the TV screen. It will disappear after 4 seconds when playing a tape. To turn off the display, press DISPLAY twice.
setting the counter
To set the counter to Ò0h00m00s,Ó press CANCEL on the remote control.
You cannot reset the counter if you are using the VCRÕs menus.
The counter will reset to Ò- h - - m - - sÓ when you eject a tape. When you load a tape again, the counter will display Ò0h00m00s.Ó
Searching Techniques
Your VCR lets you search through a tape in a number of ways. These include:
Quick search (CM skip)
Counter zero stop
Search to blank
Quick search (CM skip)
Quick search lets you skip over the tape you are playing in about 30 second intervals. It is designed so that you can quickly speed through any commercials you may have recorded. To do this:
1Make sure that you have set the VCR/TV slide switch on the remote control to the VCR position.
2While playing a tape, choose the desired search time by pressing a number button.
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Search | 30 sec. | 1 min. | 1 min. | 2 min. | 2 min. | 3 min. | |
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The VCR will speed through the selected length of tape, then resume playback. This screen will show the search time and the gauge. Each mark on the gauge represents 15 seconds. The marks will disappear, one by one, every 15 seconds of the search time. You can select a search time up to 3 minutes.
VCR
Stop
ÚàâààààààÜ REM 1:40 0h20m08s Record
Time counter
CM Skip 3m00s
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