Advanced Remote Operations

Operating One Component While Using Another (background operation)

You can temporality operate other components while listening to or watching a program.

Changing the Factory Setting of a FUNCTION Button

If the factory settings of the FUNCTION buttons (page

11)don’t match your system components, you can change them. For example, if you connect a Sony LD player to the VIDEO 2 jacks, you can assign the VIDEO 2 button to set the remote to control the LD player.

Note that the settings of the TUNER and PHONO buttons cannot be changed.

Numeric buttons

BACKGROUND

￿

0 ) = +

1

Hold down BACKGROUND.

2

Press both the corresponding numeric button of

 

the component you‘re going to use (see the table

 

below) and one of the following buttons at the

Numeric buttons

￿

0 ) = +

SYSTEM CONTROL/ FUNCTION

same time; VISUAL POWER, TV/VIDEO, CH

PRESET +/–, ANT TV/VTR, D.SKIP, (, 9, p,

0/), =/+, P, r.

Example:To start recording on a tape deck while

listening to a CD

While holding down BACKGROUND,

press 4 (or 5) and press r.

The numeric buttons are assigned to select the functions as follows:

Numeric button

Operates

 

 

1

CD player

 

 

2

DAT deck

 

 

3

MD deck

 

 

4

Tape deck A

 

 

5

Tape deck B

 

 

6

LD player

 

 

7

VCR (remote control mode VTR 1*)

 

 

8

VCR (remote control mode VTR 2*)

 

 

9

VCR (remote control mode VTR 3*)

 

 

0

TV

 

 

>10

DBS

 

 

*Sony VCRs are operated with a VTR 1, 2 or 3 setting. These correspond to Beta , 8mm and VHS respectively.

1Holding down the SYSTEM CONTROL/ FUNCTION button whose function you want to change (VIDEO 2, for example).

2Press the corresponding numeric button of the component you want to assign to the SYSTEM CONTROL/FUNCTION button (6 - LD player, for example).

For the numeric buttons, see the table in “Operating One Component While Using Another.”

Now you can use the VIDEO 2 button to control your Sony LD player.

To reset the setting to the factory setting

Repeat the above procedure.

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Sony STR-GA7ES, STR-GA8ES manual 23EN, Numeric button Operates, To reset the setting to the factory setting