Playing a Tape
Using the Playback Features
Commercial Scan (SEARCH Button)
This is useful for scanning commercials or short program segments.
1. Press SEARCH once during playback to advance the tape approximately 60 seconds.
2. Press SEARCH twice during playback to advance the tape approximately 120 seconds.
Index Search
The VCR has a “VHS Index Search System” that automatically records an index mark on the tape every time you begin recording a program. Your VCR has two index playback features. To locate the program you want to play, select a specific index number or search by scanning.
Some index marks may be missed by the VCR.
•A mark too close to the current location on the tape.
•The mark at the beginning of a recorded segment of five minutes or less.
•The first index mark on the tape when you start searching from the beginning of the tape.
To Index Search
1.Insert the prerecorded tape and press STOP.
2.Press SEARCH on the remote to display the INDEX SEARCH menu on the TV screen.
3.Press REW or FF on the remote to scan or enter the number of index marks you want the VCR to search.
Press CLEAR on the remote to correct an entry.
Once the index mark or marks are found, the tape begins playback.
4.Follow the directions on the screen.
INDEX SEARCH
Press REW or FF to begin scanning
OR
Enter a specific Index number
Press SEARCH to exit
INDEX SEARCH
Searching for
index marks...
Press STOP to cancel
Go-To Search
The VCR searches for the time counter reading you enter and automatically begins playing back the tape.
1.Insert the prerecorded tape and press STOP.
2.Press SEARCH on the remote twice to display the
3.Enter the hour(s) and minute(s) of the time counter reading you want the VCR to search.
Press CLEAR on the remote to correct an entry.
4.Press REW or FF on the remote to search.
5.Press STOP to stop
Current tape counter is
2:17:25
Press REW or FF to go to
Press SEARCH to exit
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