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Playing cassettes

1Insert a VHS cassette in the cassette opening on the front of the video recorder.The tape will be

caught and automatically placed in the correct position.The display will show “v”

What does VHS mean?

The “Video Home System” (VHS) has become the world-wide standard for recording and playback of amateur video cassettes.The popular standard has since been refined. Super-VHS (S-VHS) offers greater sharpness and less noise, Digital-VHS (D-VHS) now only works with digital picture and sound signals.Your video

recorder can only record and play standard VHS

cassettes.PARDON?

2Press the Playback button C to play the tape

8Picture / sound quality is poor

4 Please read the section “Removing picture interference” in this chapter.

4When playing many rental videos or older, poorer quality cassettes, it may not be possible to completely filter out picture and sound interference. There is nothing wrong with the

video recorder.

PROBLEM

3Press the Stop button h on the remote control (or the Stop/Eject button ?on the front of the video recorder) to stop playback

4Press the Stop/Eject button ?on the front of the video recorder to remove the tape

Automatic switch-off

 

Many functions (pause, still picture, search, ...) switch

 

themselves off automatically after a short time in order

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to protect the cassette and to save energy.

Playing back NTSC cassettes

If you are using a PAL TV set which is capable of showing a frame frequency of 60 Hz, you can play cassettes which have been recorded on the NTSC standard (USA, Japan, etc.). During an NTSC playback, some special functions (e.g. still picture) are not possible. The display will show “60HZ”

PLAYING CASSETTES / PLAYING BACK NTSC CASSETTES

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Philips VR 617/07 Playing cassettes, Playing back Ntsc cassettes, Press the Playback button C to play the tape