Additional Information

Using your camcorder abroad

Power supply

You can use your camcorder in any country/ region using the AC Adaptor supplied with your camcorder within AC 100 V to 240 V, 50/60 Hz.

On TV color systems

Your camcorder is a PAL system-based camcorder. If you want to view the playback picture on a TV, it must be a PAL system-based TV (see following list) with the AUDIO/ VIDEO input jack.

System

Used in

 

 

PAL

Australia, Austria, Belgium,

 

China, Czech Republic, Denmark,

 

Finland, Germany, Holland, Hong

 

Kong, Hungary, Italy, Kuwait,

 

Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway,

 

Poland, Portugal, Singapore,

 

Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden,

 

Switzerland, Thailand, United

 

Kingdom, etc.

 

 

PAL - M

Brazil

 

 

PAL - N

Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay

 

 

SECAM

Bulgaria, France, Guiana, Iran,

 

Iraq, Monaco, Russia, Ukraine, etc.

 

 

NTSC

Bahama Islands, Bolivia, Canada,

 

Central America, Chile, Colombia,

 

Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Japan,

 

Korea, Mexico, Peru, Surinam,

 

Taiwan, the Philippines, the

 

U.S.A., Venezuela, etc.

 

 

Simple setting of clock by time difference

You can easily set the clock to the local time by setting a time difference when using your camcorder abroad. Select [WORLD TIME] in

the (TIME/LANGU.) menu, then set the time difference (p. 83).

Usable cassette tapes

You can use standard 8 mm and Hi8 , Digital8 video cassettes on your camcorder.

Digital8 system

This video system has been developed to enable

digital recording to Hi8 /Digital8 video cassette.

The recording time when you use your

Digital8 system camcorder on Hi8 / standard 8 mm tape is 2/3 of the recording

time when using the conventional Hi8 / standard 8 mm system camcorder.

(90 minutes of recording time becomes 60 minutes in the SP mode.)

Hi8 system

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.

To prevent a blank section from being made on the tape

Touch

 

 

to go to the end of the recorded

 

 

section before you begin the next recording in the following cases:

–You have played back the tape.

–You have used EDIT SEARCH.

If there is a blank section or discontinuous signals on your tape, re-record from the beginning to the end of the tape as described above.

Copyright signal

When you play back

If the cassette you play back on your camcorder contains copyright signals, you cannot copy it to a tape in another video camera connected to your camcorder.

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