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Are you familiar with tape playback? If so, you are
ready to enjoy the special effect playback features
described below.
To skip playback for a certain period
Press S. SEARCH button 1 to 4 times during
playback to search forward for 30 seconds by the
time counter reading.
Each time you press the button, the search time
increases as follows:
30 60 90 120 sec.
The VCR automatically resumes normal playback
after searching for the specified period.
To view a still picture
Press STILL/SLOW briefly during playback.
Playback is freezed and a still picture appears.
Press the STILL/SLOW button repeatedly to
advance the still picture frame by frame.
To resume playback, press PLAY.
To view a slow motion picture
Press STILL/SLOW for more than 2 seconds during
playback.
To decrease the forward slow motion speed, press
STILL/SLOW –.
To increase the slow motion speed, press STILL/
SLOW +.
To resume playback, press PLAY.
Notes:
• No sound comes out during special effect playbacks.
• If you keep viewing slow motion and still pictures for
more than 5 minutes, the VCR automatically stops to
protect the tape and video heads.
• During special effect playbacks, some noise bars will
appear on the TV screen.

Special Effect Playbacks

Auto tracking
Each time a tape is inserted, auto tracking starts
working and continuously analyses the signal to adjust
for optimum picture quality during playback. So, there
is no need for you to minimize noises in most tapes
during playback.
Manual tracking
•During normal playback:
If auto tracking cannot eliminate noises well
during playback, press VCR CH / .
•During a slow motion picture:
Press VCR CH / to minimize noises in the
slow motion picture.
•During a still picture:
Press VCR CH / to reduce jitter in the still
picture.
To cancel manual tracking, stop the tape, eject the
tape, then re-insert it.
Note:
If you keep pressing

VCR CH

/ button, you
might get “USE CLEANING CASSETTE” message
on the screen. Please disregard this message and
re-adjust the tracking. However, if the message
appears automatically (without pressing

VCR CH

/ ), this indicates that your video heads are dirty.
You can locate an index marked at the beginning of
each recording on a tape recorded on this VCR (or
an indexed tape).
Press or repeatedly until the appropriate
number is displayed on the TV screen before
starting play.
Rapid forward or reverse search begins.
When it finds the designated index, playback starts
automatically.
• Locate an index number by pressing the button
repeatedly, indicating how many index marks ahead of
or behind that recording you want is from the tape’s
current position.
• Up to ±9th index mark from the current position on the
tape can be located.

Index Search

Tracking Adjustments

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