— Additional Information —

About video cassettes

Selecting the cassette type

You can use both Hi8

 

and standard 8 mm

video cassettes on your camcorder.

 

When you use a Hi8

 

 

video cassette, recording and playback are carried out in the

 

 

Hi8

 

system. When you use a standard 8 mm video cassette, recording and

 

playback are carried out in the standard 8 mm

system.

However, if you record on a Hi8

video cassette in the LP mode, recording is

carried out in the standard 8 mm

system.

 

If you play back a tape recorded on a different video recorder on your camcorder, the playback mode is automatically selected according to the format in which the tape has been recorded.

This Hi8

system is an extension of the standard 8 mm system, and was

developed to produce higher quality pictures.

 

 

You cannot play back a tape recorded in the Hi8

 

system correctly on video

 

recorders/players other than a Hi8 video recorder/player.

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When you play back

The playback mode (SP/LP) and system, Hi8 , or standard 8 mm are automatically selected according to the format in which the tape has been recorded. The quality of the recorded picture in the LP mode, however, will not be as good as the SP mode.

Foreign 8 mm video

Because TV color systems differ from country to country, you may not be able to play back foreign pre-recorded tapes. Refer to “Using your camcorder abroad” (p. 83) to check the TV color systems used in foreign countries.

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