04Getting started

Video CD/Super VCD PBC menus

Some Video CD/Super VCDs have menus from which you can choose what you want to watch. These are PBC (Playback control) menus.

You can play a PBC Video CD/Super VCD without having to navigate the PBC menu by starting playback using a number button to select a track, rather than the (play) button.

4 Press TAPE to start playback.

You can also press (remote) or (front panel) to start playback when TAPE is selected.

The side of the tape you’ll hear is whichever is face up when you load it. This is the ‘forward’

(

) direction, while the other side is ‘reverse’

(

). The direction indicator is shown in the

display.

 

 

Basic playback controls

Button

What it does

 

 

The following table shows the basic controls on

RETURN

Displays the PBC menu.

the remote for playing cassette tapes.

 

 

Numbers Selects numbered menu options. Press ENTER to select.

Displays the previous menu page (if there is one).

Displays the next menu page (if there is one).

Playing cassette tapes

This unit has a tape deck that can be used for both recording and playback. In addition, it features automatic music search (AMS) and

auto-reverse functions1. See Manual recording to cassette on page 24 for more features.

1Push down on the cassette door where indicated to open it and insert a tape.

2Close the cassette door.

3Press REVERSE MODE (front panel only) to select the reverse mode.

Press repeatedly to choose between:

• – Single side playback

• – Auto-reverse playback: stops after

finishing playback in the ‘reverse’ ( ) direction

• – Continuous playback (up to 8 complete plays)

Button

What it does

 

TAPE

Starts/resumes normal playback. Each

( )

time you press either button during

 

 

playback, the other side of the tape

 

 

starts playing. Pressing TAPE (or

)

when the tape is stopped starts playback on the side it was playing previously.

Pauses playback.

Stops playback. Also resets the tape counter to 0000 if pressed when the tape is already stopped.

Press to fast-rewind a tape.

Press to fast-forward a tape.

Searches for the previous / next blank

aspace between tracks on the side currently playing (in other words, to the start of the current / next track), then resumes playback.

By pressing more than once, the tape will skip several tracks at once (up to a maximum of 15). For example, press

twice to skip forward two tracks.

a.Track search is unlikely to work reliably if:

–the space between tracks is less than about 4 seconds.

–the recording is noisy so the spaces are not recognized.

–the recording contains frequent silences, such as a lan- guage study tape.

–the recording contains sections of very quiet material, such as some classical music recordings.

Note

1 The auto-reverse feature lets you play or record a tape without physically taking it out and turning it over.

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