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Notes:
• If you leave the VCR in the freeze-frame
mode for 3 minutes, the VCR stops playing
the tape to protect the video heads.
• To reduce or eliminate jitter in the freeze-
frame picture, press and hold CH s or CH t
until the picture is clear.
During freeze-frame, you can advance the pic-
ture one frame at a time by repeatedly pressing
SLOW. This feature works best with video cas-
settes recorded at the SP or EP speed. Press
PAUSE to return to normal playback.

Slow Motion

To start slow motion playback, while a tape is
playing, press SLOW. Press SLOW again or
PLAY to return to normal playback. During slow
motion, the sound is muted and the picture
quality is lower than during normal playback.
Slow motion picture quality is best with tapes
recorded at the SP or EP speed.
Notes:
• If you leave the VCR in the slow-motion
mode for 3 minutes, the VCR stops playing
the tape to protect the video heads.
• If the slow-motion picture is poor, press
and hold CH s or CH t until the picture
improves.

One Minute Skip

You can skip over unwanted material on the re-
corded tape, such as commercials. Press
ZERO/1MIN during playback. The VCR fast for-
wards over the next minute of recording, then
resumes normal playback.
REAL-TIME COUNTER

Using the Counter

Your VCR’s counter shows how long a tape
has been running. To have the counter display
on the TV screen, press DISP/ENT on the re-
mote control.
The counter does not reset if you eject a tape
then put in a new tape. To reset the counter to
0:00:00, press COUNTER RESET.
Note: The real-time counter might stop if you
fast-forward or rewind through a blank section
on the tape. This is normal.

Using the Zero Search Fu nction

You can reset the counter to 0:00:00 at any
position on the tape and then return to that po-
sition. This lets you quickly return to a selected
place on the tape later.
Follow these steps to use the zero search func-
tion.
1. While a tape is playing, if the counter does
not appear on the TV screen, press
COUNTER RESET once to display it.
2. Within 5 seconds, press COUNTER RESET
again at the location you want to return to
later. The counter resets to 0:00:00.
3. When you want to return to the selected
location, stop the tape, then press ZERO/
1MIN. The tape rewinds or fast-forwards
and automatically stops when it reaches
0:00:00.
Notes:
• If you press REW to rewind the tape past
0:00:00, the time appears with a minus
(–) sign.
• The counter does not work wi th blank
tapes or blank portions of partially
recorded tapes.
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