Philips VR9185 - Manual (Page 19)

Playing a cassette
a Put a cassette into the cassette slot. ’ v ’ will appear on
the display.
D The cassette is being checked. Wait until the search
symbol in the display has gone out. You can find
more information on the Tape Manager in the
chapter ’The Tape Manager (TM)’.
b Press the PLAY G button.
c To stop, press the STOP h button.
d To eject the cassette, press the STOP/EJECT ? button
on the video recorder.
D Some hired cassettes may have a poor picture or
poor sound quality. This is not a fault in your
machine. Please read the section ’Selecting the
picture setting (SMART PICTURE)’, or ’Eliminating
picture interference’.
D Some functions switch off automatically after a
while (for example, pause, still picture, picture
search). This helps to protect the cassette and
avoids wasting power.
Playing NTSC cassettes
With this set you can playback cassettes that have been
recorded on another video recorder in the NTSC standard (for
example, American cassettes). But this only works for
PAL-television sets which are suitable for a picture frequency
of 60 Hz.
When you play an NTSC cassette ’60HZ’ will appear on the
display.
D Some special features (for example, still picture) are
not possible while you are playing an NTSC
cassette.
Tape position indication
By pressing the OK button, you can show the present tape
position on the TV screen.
a During playback press the COUNTER button.
b Select one of the following options with the COUNTER
button:
’TIME USED’ to indicate the time used on the tape
’TIME LEFT’ to indicate the time left on the tape
’COUNTER’ to indicate the actual position on the tape
D To reset the tape position to ’0:00:00’, press the
CLEAR (CL) button.
D This video recorder will automatically recognise the
length of the tape.
D When you put in a cassette, the video recorder must
first calculate the playing time for ’TIME USED’ or
’TIME LEFT’. Therefore, the display first shows ’
s ’
and then shows the playing time after the tape has
been running for a few seconds.
D If the video recorder does not find a recording at a
particular tape position with ’COUNTER’ switched
on, the counter will stop.
Searching for tape position with the picture
(picture search)
a While a cassette is playing, press the H (reverse) or
I (forward) button once or several times.
b To stop at a certain picture, press the PLAY G button.
D During picture search, the picture quality may not be
so good and there will be no sound.
5. PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS
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