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• Video Cassette Recorder
  • Owner's record
  • WARNING
    • To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not expose the unit to rain or moisture.
    • CAUTION
    • WARNING
    • Precautions
      • Safety
      • Installing
    • Information
      • For customers in the USA
      • For customers in Canada
      • Caution
  • Table of contents
    • Getting Started
  • Step 1
  • Unpacking
  • Setting up the remote commander
    • Inserting the batteries
    • Using the remote commander
      • Set /IVIDEOl to
    • Setting the COMMAND MODE switch
      • COMMAND
      • MODE
    • Controlling other TVs with the remote commander
      • Tip
      • Code numbers of controllable TVs
        • Notes
  • Hookups
    • Selecting the best hookup option
      • Before you get started
        • continued
      • B Use this hookup if your TV has the S-Link™ function VCR Stereo receiver
        • Note
    • AN hookup:
    • VCR setup
      • Set AUTO ANT SEL to OFF and press the cursor stick (OK).
      • Caution
      • Note to CATV system installer (in USA)
    • Hookup 1
      • Pages 11 to 13
    • Using cable box control
      • Recommended use
      • What you can do with this hookup
      • What you can't do
        • Cable Mouse
        • Rear of TV VHF/UHF
        • VHF
        • UHF
        • VHF
        • UHF
        • continued
    • Hookup 1:
    • VCR setup
    • Hookup 1:
    • VCR Plus+ channel setup
      • Normal display
      • Notes
      • Automatic clock setting
        • Note
    • Hookup 2
    • No cable box, or incompatible cable box with only a few scrambled channels
      • Recommended use
      • What you can do with this hookup
      • What you can't do
    • Hookup 2:
    • VCR setup
    • VCR Plus+ channel setup
      • Notes
      • Automatic clock setting
    • Hookup 3
    • Antenna hookup
      • □ Use this hookup if you're using:
        • Rear of TV VHF/UHF
        • B
        • UHF
      • m Use this hookup if you're using a VHF-only antenna (you get channels 2-13 only)
        • VCR
        • Rear of TV VHF/UHF
        • VHF
        • VHF
        • UHF
        • connection is required.
        • If you cannot connect ydlir antenna cable to the VCR directly
        • continued
    • Hookup 3:
    • VCR setup
      • Normal display
    • VCR Plus+ channel setup
      • Notes
      • Automatic clock setting
        • continued
    • Hookup 4
    • Incompatible cable box with many scrambled channels
      • Recommended use
      • What you can do with this hookup
        • Cable box
        • Rear of TV
        • VHF/UHF lA
        • VCR
        • VHF
        • UHF
        • VHF
        • UHF
        • continued
        • Program guide channel Cable box output channel
      • Automatic clock setting
        • Note
        • continued
    • Hookup 5
    • DSS (Digital Satellite System) receiver
      • Recommended use
      • What you can do with this hookup
      • What you can't do
    • Hookup 5:
    • VCR setup
      • continued
      • Normal display
      • Automatic clock setting
        • Note
    • Hookup 6
    • Incompatible cable box with only a few scrambled channels, using an A/B switch
      • Recommended use
      • What you can do with this hookup
      • What you can't do
        • VCR
        • or
        • or
        • Rear of TV VHF/UHF
        • VHF
        • UHF
        • VHF
      • loo
        • UHF
        • continued
    • VCR setup
      • Normal display
      • continued
    • VCR Plus+ channel setup
      • VCR Plus+ channel setup for scrambled channels
      • Automatic clock setting
  • Selecting a language
  • Setting the clock
    • Using the Auto Clock Set feature
      • Before you start...
        • Notes
    • If the clock is not activated
      • Notes
    • Using Manual Clock Set
      • continued
  • Setting up cable box control
    • (Skip this section if you are using Hookup 2, 3, 4, or 6.)
      • Number
      • continued
      • Cable box and DSS receiver brand and the corresponding code numbers
      • To ensure correct operation
      • To check the cable box control setting
      • If you cannot get your VCR to control the cable box/DSS receiver
        • Note
  • Presetting
  • channels
    • (Skip this section if you are using cable box/DSS receiver control feature.)
      • Before you start...
    • Presetting all receivable channels automatically
      • Tip
      • continued
    • Presetting/disabling channels manually
    • If the picture is not clear
  • Setting up VCR Plus+
    • How VCR Plus+ works
    • How to set up your VCR
      • Example of "PlusCode"
    • Setting up VCR Plus-t- automatically (Smart Channel Mapping)
      • To select the channel map
        • Notes
    • Setting up VCR Plus+ manually
      • Cursor stick OK
      • continued
      • Basic Operations
  • Playing a tape
    • continued
    • Additional tasks
      • To
      • Press
    • To skip playback
      • Tip
    • To use the time counter
      • Notes
  • Recording TV programs
    • continued
    • To stop recording
    • To check the remaining tape length
    • To select the channel using the shuttle ring
    • To save a recording
  • Locating a channel by station ID
    • The selected station ID
    • continued
    • Note
  • Recording TV programs using VCR Plus+
    • Before you start...
      • POWER
      • VCR Plus+ CLEAR
      • continued
      • Select
    • To stop recording
    • To use the VCR after setting the timer
    • To lock the VCR after setting the timer (Child Lock)
      • Tips
      • Notes
  • Setting the timer manually
    • Before you start...
      • continued
    • Daily/weekly recording
      • the current date -> SUN-SAT -► MON-SAT -► MON-FRI -► EVERY SAT
      • Tips
      • Notes
      • Additional Operations
      • Shuttle ring
      • Playback options
      • Operation
      • continued
      • Operation
    • Using the shuttle ring
      • To use the shuttle ring in normal mode
        • Playback mode Normal speed
        • Slow motion
        • Slow motion in reverse
        • Double speed in reverse
        • Normal speed in reverse
  • Searching for a selected point on the tape
    • To cancel searching
    • To turn off the bar indication
      • Tape type
      • Total time length SP LP EP
  • Skip-searching
  • automatically
    • search forward search forward
    • ►► fast-forward
    • ►► fast-forward
    • To cancel skip-search
      • Note
      • Cursor stick
    • Creating your favorite channel list
      • Note
      • continued
    • Selecting a channel from your favorite channel list
      • Cursor stick OK
      • Note
  • Recording TV programs using the quick timer
    • To extend the duration
    • To stop while recording
    • Using the quick tinier during stop mode
      • CSD QD
      • POWER
      • CLEAR
      • Before you start...
      • When the timer settings overlap
        • p about 20 seconds
        • Will be cut off
        • about 20 seconds will be cut r- off
        • Program 2
  • Recording stereo and bilingual programs
    • Recording stereo programs
    • Recording bilingual programs
    • Selecting the sound during playback
    • How sound is recorded on a video tape
      • Monaural sound
      • Notes
  • Searching using the index function
    • (3D QD
    • INDEX
    • SEARCH
    • To stop searching
  • Adjusting the picture
    • Adjusting the tracking
      • Tracking meter
    • About Adaptive Picture Control (APC)
      • APC playback
      • APC recording
        • Notes
  • Changing menu options
    • Menu choices
      • Set this option to
      • Note
  • Editing with another VCR
    • How to hook up to record on this VCR
    • How to hook up to a stereo system
      • If the other VCR has a CONTROL S OUT jack for synchronized editing
        • Notes
    • Operation
    • (when recording on this VCR)
      • Before you start editing
      • To stop editing
        • Tips
        • Note
        • SmartFile function
  • About the SmartFile function
    • Recording using the SmartFile function (page 88)
      • SmartFile search list
    • Selecting and playing a program (page 93)
    • Checking the contents of a tape (page 94)
    • Labelling a recorded program and tape (page 95)
    • Protecting a recorded program (page 100)
    • Erasing the data of an unwanted program (page 102)
    • Storing program data from the DSS receiver (Program Data Download) (page 103)
  • Recording using the SmartFile function
    • Attaching the SmartFile label to the cassette tape
      • Note on the purchase of SmartFile labels
        • • For the customers in Canada
        • Notes
      • Before you start...
        • Note
      • To check the information of a recorded program
        • Initial and latest dates of use for this
        • Tip
        • Notes
    • Recording after locating the Blank Time space
      • Before you start...
        • Notes
  • Selecting and playing a program
    • Before you start...
    • To stop searching
      • Note
  • Checking the contents of a tape
    • Before you start...
      • Tips
      • Notes
  • Labelling a recorded program and tape
    • Labelling a recorded program and selecting a category
      • Before you start...
        • continued
        • SPECIAL -► MOVIE -► NEWS -► SHOW —
        • SPORTS -► KIDS -► MUSIC — ARTS —
        • COMEDY -► DRAMA — DAYTIME -►
      • To erase the program label
      • To erase the selected category
      • To label a regularly scheduled timer-recorded program
        • continued
    • Labelling a tape
      • Before you start...
        • CLEAR
  • Protecting a recorded program
    • Before you start...
    • To unlock the protected program
      • Tips
      • Notes
  • Erasing the data of an unwanted program
    • Before you start...
      • an ¡3D
      • CLEAR
      • DISPLAY
      • Notes
  • storing program data from the DSS receiver (Program Data Download)
    • How to hook up to the DSS receiver
    • Setting up the DSS receiver
    • Storing program data on the SmartFile tape
      • Program name Category name
      • Notes
  • General setup information
    • Setting the RF unit
    • Attaching the external antenna connector
    • Attaching a UHFA/HF band mixer
      • 75-ohm coaxial cable
  • Troubleshooting
    • Symptom
    • Remedy
    • Symptoms caused by contaminated video heads
      • • Normal picture • Rough picture • Unclear picture
      • • No picture (or black & white screen appears)
      • initial
      • contamination
      • terminal
      • continued
      • Remedy
      • Symptom
      • Remedy
  • Specifications
  • Index to parts and controls
    • Front panel
      • continued
    • Display window
    • Rear panel
    • Remote commander
    • Remote commander, with top cover opened
  • Index
  • ^Juick reference to using the VCR
    • Hookup 1
      • To play a tape
      • To record a program
      • To watch TV
    • Hookup 2
      • To play a tape
      • To record a program
      • To watch TV
    • Hookup 3
      • To play a tape
      • To record a program
      • To watch TV