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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 reduce or eliminate jitter in the freeze-
frame picture, press and hold CH s/t until
the picture is clear.

Frame Advance

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.
Notes:
• During slow motion, the sound is muted
and the picture quality is lower than during
normal playback. Slow motion picture qual-
ity is best with tapes recorded at the SP or
EP speed.
• If you leave the VCR in the slow-motion
mode for 3 minutes, the VCR stops playing
the tape.
• If the slow-motion picture is poor, press
and hold CH s/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 1 minute of recording, then re-
sumes normal playback.
REAL-TIME COUNTER

Using the Counter

Your VCR’s counter shows how long a tape
has been running. To display the counter on
the TV screen, press DISPLAY on the remote
control.
Notes:
• The real-time counter m ight stop if you
fast-forward or rewind through a blank sec-
tion on the tape. This is normal.
• You can press COUNTER RESET to reset
the counter to 0:00:00.

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.
Follow these steps to use the zero search func-
tion.
1. Press COUNTER RESET once so the
counter appears on the TV screen.
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 at the location you
selected in Step 2.
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