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still Picture and Fram,e Advance
0Press PAUSE/STILL (F.ADV) during playback. This will freeze the picture on your TV.
@ If noise bars appear on the screen during still picture, set your VCR to the slow mode and press CHANNEL A/V (CH A/V) to make the noise disappear. Then press PAUSE/STILL (F.ADV) again.
0 If there is vertical jitter during Still Picture Playback, press CHANNEL A/v (CH A/v) to stop the jitter.
@Press PAUSE/STILL (F.ADV) during still mode for frame advance.
@Press PLAY/X2 again to resume normal playback.
Double Speed Playback
@Press PLAY/X2 during playback. The tape will be played back at twice the normal speed.
@Press PLAY/X2 to resume normal playback.
•Sound is muted during video search, slow motion, still picture, frame advance, and double speed playback.
•To avoid damage to the tape, your VCR will resume normal playback after about 5 minutes of slow motion playback and still picture.
•During slow motion, still, frame advance and double speed playback with a tape recorded in the LP mode, the upper part of the picture may be skewed to one side.
•During Standard Play (SP), video search, slow motion, still picture, frame advance and double speed playback, some picture noise will remain.
Colour Mode
If a colour recording’s quality is poor, the picture may turn black and white. In this event, set the COLOUR mode on the MODE selection screen to “PAL” (strict PAL colour mode) or “NTSC” (strict NTSC colour mode). Normally, the co/our mode should be set to “AUTO”.
(See Mode Selection on page 17.)
•When the colour mode is set to fixed colour mode while the VCR is playing back a black and white tape or is receiving a black and white broadcast, the picture may be coloured. In this event, set the COLOUR mode on the MODE selection screen to “AUTO”.
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NTSC Tape Play Back on PAL TV
When you play back an NTSC tape on your VCR, it is possible to use a PAL or multi- system compatible TV. However, please note the following:
*The picture will shrink vertically to some degree, as shown in the diagram, but this does not indicate a malfunction in your TV or VCR.
•If your TV does not have a
•Horizontal noise bars may appear on the screen during special effect playback (video search, still, slow, frame
advance, and double speed playback), possibly accompanied by discolouring.
*Although NTSC tapes can be played back onto a PAL TV, those tapes cannot be dubbed by a PAL system VCR connected to the AUDIO OUT and VIDEO OUT terminals of this product. Tapes recorded in this way cannot be played back on PAL system VCRs.
•Set the COLOUR mode to AUTO. If the COLOUR mode is set to PAL, you cannot play back the tape.
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