Video Cassettes

Make sure you select good quality tapes for your camcorder. Use of poor quality tapes or tapes that have been damaged or mishandled can contaminate the video heads, resulting in a snowy picture or no picture at all during playback. Because there is no control over the type of tape purchased or rented by consumers, head cleaning is not covered under warranty. It is considered normal maintenance.

Erase Protection – Safety Tab

You can protect your video cassettes from being erased by closing the safety tab. To erase a previous recording, just record over it.

Safety Tab

To prevent erasure,

To record again,

close safety tab and

open safety tab.

expose red.

Red disappears.

Recording Times

The camcorder records and plays back in standard speed (SP). Maximum recording times for some 8mm cassettes using SP speed are listed.

Cassette

Recording Time

 

 

T6-15

15 Minutes

 

 

T6-20

20 Minutes

 

 

T6-45

45 Minutes

 

 

T6-60

60 Minutes

 

 

T6-90

90 Minutes

T6-120

120 Minutes

 

 

T6-150

150 Minutes

 

 

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RCA ProV600 manual Video Cassettes, Cassette Recording Time, Erase Protection Safety Tab, Recording Times