User manual DAEWOO VN2000

[. . . ] Contents Setting up the video recorder Safety instructions, Important points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Cleaning your video recorder, The mains plug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Safety symbols, Power Cuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Eject the cassette If a cassette is playing or fast forwarding and so on, press the (stop) button. Then press the EJECT button on the remote control or the STOP/EJECT button on the video recorder. x means the cassette is in. VCR L R VCR + VCR VCR L R VCR L R x Some functions (such as pause, still picture and picture scanning) switch off automatically after a while. This helps to protect the cassette and uses less power. When the video recorder plays or picture-scans to the end of the tape, it will rewind back to the beginning. 22 Playing video cassettes Still picture and slow-motion · If still picture or slow-motion lasts longer than five minutes the video recorder will stop, to protect the video tape. Still picture While you are playing a cassette, press the (pause) button to see a still picture. Each time you press the pause button, the picture will move on one step. · You can reduce vertical vibration of the still picture if you keep pressing PR- or PR+ button. VCR VCR Slow-motion While you are playing a cassette keep pressing the to control the slow-motion speed in 6 steps. button As with the still picture, you will get some picture interference. · If you see interference stripes during slow motion playback, keep pressing the PR+ or PR- button until you get the best picture. Commercial skip 30 If you press the button on the remote control while a cassette is playing, the video recorder quickly skips 30 seconds of the recording. NTSC playback NTSC is American standard video. Great Britain uses a different video standard (called PAL). This video recorder can play video cassettes that have been recorded with NTSC video through most televisions used in Great Britain. A few televisions may not display a proper picture. This is not a fault with your video recorder and the television cannot be modified. You cannot record NTSC video on this video recorder. 23 Playing video cassettes Choosing the sound track When the video recorder is playing a hi-fi recording you can press the A. SEL button to change the sound track. The following messages on the screen tell you what sound track you have selected. hi-fi L+R : hi-fi LEFT: hi-fi RIGHT: hi-fi OFF: normal stereo the left channel comes from both the left and right speakers the right channel comes from both the left and right speakers lower quality mono sound track If the recording is not hi-fi you cannot change the sound track, there is no on-screen message, and the video recorder can only play mono sound. You need to select `hi-fi L+R' to get proper surround-sound effects from a surround-sound effect amplifier. Wide-screen pictures You can record and play wide-screen pictures with this video recorder. This `16:9 set' feature (see below) only works if your television has a wide-screen feature and is connected to the video recorder with a scart cable. The ratio 16:9 is the ratio of the width to the height of a wide-screen picture. 2 Press the PR+ button until the pointer moves to `VCR setup'. 3 Press the PR+ button until the pointer moves to `16:9 set'. Then press the OK button. VCR SETUP Clock Set RF Output Set 2nd Scart Set 16:9 set PR+/-:select OK:confirm MENU:end 16:9 SET AUTO OFF ON PR+/-:select OK:confirm MENU:end 4 Move the pointer with the PR+ button until it points to one of the settings below. · Auto · On · Off The video recorder recognises whether the recorded programme is wide-screen or normal (4:3) format. The video recorder always plays the programme as a wide-screen recording. [. . . ] 7 Press the OK button to confirm the change and go back to the main menu. 8 Press the MENU button to turn off the main menu display. 9 Connect the decoder to the EURO AV2/ DECODER socket. continued over the page. . . 39 Appendix Appendix 2 (continued) Canal+ · When you have selected `Decoder (Pay TV)' as the AV2 socket function, `Canal+ set' will appear on the `Program pre-set' menu. [. . . ]