Sony SLV-SE220G - Manual (Page 51)

To use the VCR before a reeording begins, just press i/1. T h e © indieator
turns off and the VCR switehes on. Remember to press i/1 to reset the VCR
to reeording standby after using the VCR.
You ean also do the following tasks while the VCR is reeording:
• Reset the eounter (page 34).
• Display tape information on the TV sereen (page 37).
• Cheek the timer settings (page 55).
• Wateh another TV programme (page 37).
To use the Auto Tape Speed function
In step 2 above, press m to seleet AUTO. When you are reeording a
programme in the SP mode and the remaining tape length beeomes shorter
than the reeording time, the reeording tape speed is automatieally ehanged to
the LP mode. Note that some noise will appear on the pieture when the tape
speed is ehanged. To operate this funetion eorreetly, the “TAPE SELECT”
setting in the USER SET menu must be aeeurate (see page 63).
Tips
• To set the line input video source, you can also use the INPUT SELECT button.
• Even if you set TIMER METHOD to VIDEOPLUS in the EASY OPERATION
menu, you ean set the timer manually. Press MENU to seleet TIMER
PROGRAMMING, then go to step 2.
• To eheek, ehange, or eaneel the programme setting, see “Cheeking/ehanging/
eaneelling timer settings” on page 55.
Notes
• When setting the timer with PDC signals, enter the start and stop times exaetly as
indieated in the TV programme guide. Otherwise, the PDC funetion will not work.
• If the PDC signal is too weak or the broadeasting station failed to transmit PDC
signals, the VCR will start reeording at the set time without using the PDC
funetion.
• T h e © and indieators flash in the display window when you press i / 1 with
no tape inserted.
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