Optimus 64, 65 owner manual Using Index Search, Direct Access Index Search

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USING INDEX SEARCH

Your VCR has the VHS Index Search System. Each time you start recording, the VCR auto- matically marks the tape with an index mark at that location. You can locate the recording you want to play or skip the recording(s) you don’t want to watch by either entering the number of index marks or by scanning. The VCR search- es forward or backward from the current loca- tion.

Notes:

•Since the VCR does not display the index marks, we recommend you list the record- ings on each tape in order on the tape’s box, to make it easier to locate a particular recording on the tape.

•Index search might not function properly when two or more index marks are close to each other.

•If you do not press any button within 10 seconds after you select INDEX SEARCH, the VCR cancels index search.

•If you activate the direct access index search at a tape position very close to an index mark, the VCR might not count that mark. See “Direct Access Index Search.”

•Recording over an index mark erases that index mark.

Direct Access Index Search

1.Press INDEX (INDEX/M/A SKIP on the Model 65). You see:

ODE

SEARCH

M/ A SK I P

Model 64 Model 65

Notes:

•PROGRAM INDEX SEARCH appears only when there is a timer recording on the program index list. See “Automatic Timer Recording” on Page 35.

•MOVIE ADVANCE appears only when the tape has its erase-protection tab removed.

•If you have a Model 64, SELECT SEARCH MODE does not appear when there is no timer-recorded program in the program index list. INDEX appears on the top of the screen instead. Skip to Step 4.

For more information, see “Automatic Timer Recording” on Page 35.

2.Repeatedly press or to highlight

INDEX SEARCH. You see:

	DEX			DEX
	EGORY	CH		EGORY	CH
	ORTS ABCD			ORTS ABCD
	V I E	NBC		V I E	NBC
	MEDY	CBC		MEDY	CBC
	S I C	NBC		S I C	NBC
	EY			/A SKIP
Model 64			Model 65

3.Press . INDEX appears.

4.Use the number keys to enter the number of index marks you want to skip.

For example, if the tape is at the second recording (index mark 2) and you want to watch the seventh recording (at index mark 7), enter 5 to skip past index marks 3 through 6. Or, if the tape is at index mark 9 and you want to watch the recording at index mark 3, enter 7 to skip past index marks 9 through 4.

5.Then press to skip forward to that index

mark or to skip backward. When the tape reaches the selected index mark, the VCR starts normal playback.

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