e00_VDH_M814.book Page 12 Thursday, October 28, 2004 9:59 AM

OPERATION

1. ADJUSTING THE DISPLAY

At power ON, the operation display area appears at the top of the monitor screen.The operation display area shows the date/time, image quality, remaining time, and other information needed for operations.

Operation display area

Example: Normal screen

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(5)

 

 

(6)

(7)

Operation

X1

8 0

H I A

 

display area

0 5 - 1 0

- 0

4 0 8 : 3 0 : 3 5AL 0 0 0 1 5

 

(8)

(1)Operation symbol display

Displays symbols for recording, playback, playback speed, etc.

For the meaning of each operation symbol, see “Displayed symbols” on the right.

During simultaneous recording and playback, the display indicates playback ().

(2) Picture quality display ( P.44)

Displays the quality of the image that can be recorded on the hard disk. Set to “HIGH” in the default settings.

(3)Audio recording

Displays “A” when audio recording has been set.

(4)Remaining time display

Unless “OVER WRITE” is set for recording, displays the remaining amount of available recording time, as shown below.

Remaining

Displayed

Example

time

increment

 

 

 

 

1 hour or more

1 hour

1H

increments

 

 

 

 

 

Less than 1

10 minute

10M

hour

increments

 

 

 

 

Less than 10

1 minute

1M

minutes

increments

 

 

 

 

(5)Date display ( P.34) Shows the month/day/year.

05-10-04 (month/day/year)

(6)Time display ( P.34)

“PLEASE SET THE CLOCK” is displayed when you turn the power ON for the first time. The digital video recorder uses the date and time to manage recording and playback points.

(7) Alarm display and alarm count display ( P.17) When you set an alarm using the <ALARM REC MODE SET> menu item, the alarm display area displays the following information. ( P.46)

zAlarm display

When alarm recording is set, “AL” appears. During alarm recording, the “AL” display flashes.

zAlarm count display

Displays the total number of alarms that have been generated.

(8)Camera title and VIDEO LOSS display The title set for each camera is displayed.

“VIDEO LOSS” is displayed when there is no video input.

OPERATION

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