RCA 390 owner manual Basic Operation

Basic Operation

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Basic Operating Controls and Displays

Now that you have connected your VCR to your TV and antenna or cable-TV system, you are ready to turn it on. You don't need to know all the details about the controls and display before you begin using your new VCR, so only those you will be using immediately are discussed here. (Additional information about the controls is on pages 16-17.)

0POWER: Turns the VCR on and off.

EJECT: Ejects the cassette from the VCR. The light in the EJECT button is on when a cassette is in

place.

Cassette Compartment: Push the cassette through the door to load it.

Status Display: Tells what the VCR is doing: PLAY for playback, Search or Slow Motion; REC for record; REW for rewind; FF for fast forward; blinking PLAY for Play/Pause or Frame Advance; blinking REC for Record/Pause. This area is btank at other times.

Time Display: The time and day of the week are nor- mally shown here. If the clock has stopped you will see "-:-"in this area.

CHANNEL selector buttons and display: • selects the next lower channel and • selects the next higher channel. The channel number appears in the display unit.

Inserting and Removing Cassettes

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PLAY: Starts playback.

REWIND: Rewinds the tape when the VCR is stopped.

RECORD: Press RECORD and PLAY at the same time to begin recording.

STOP: Stops whatever the VCR is doing (record, playback, rewind, or fast forward).

TAPE SPEED and Indicators: Press the button to change recording speed. The lighted indicator tells the tape speed. (Use "SLP" for normal recording.)

(_ TUNER/LINE: Be sure it is set to TUNER for record- ing TV programs. LINE is for recording from a cam- era or another VCR. The LINE light is off when the switch is set to TUNER.

_) VCR: Selects the signal source that is fed to the VHF antenna connection on your TV. When the light above the button is off, your TV receives signals from your VHF antenna or from the Cable-TV system. When the light is on, signals come from the VCR tuner or the tape that is playing. (This switch is called the "VCR/TV switch" in this manual to avoid confu- sion with the VCR itself.)

CHANNEL PROGRAMMING: Explained on page 11.

To Insert: Turn on the VCR and then

push the cassette through the door

until the VCR mechanism pulls it into the compartment, The light in the Eject button turns on when the cassette is in

place,

To Eject: Power must be on to eject the cassette. Rewind the cassette before

ejecting it. Press EJECT.

To Remove: The cassette will come

partially out of the compartment so you can pull it out Put the cassette in its box and store it upright.

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