User manual PALSONIC VCR6200HS

[. . . ] VCR2200 / VCR6200HS Video recorder User Guide VCR2200 VCR6200HS PALSONIC CORPORATION PTY LTD 1 JOYNTON AVENUE WATERLOO NSW 2017 AUSTRALIA TEL: (02) 9313 7111 FAX: (02) 9313 7555 www. palsonic. com. au PALSONIC CUSTOMER SERVICE TELEPHONE AUSTRALIA: 1300 657 888 See back page for quick-start guide WORTH knowing Please keep the video's guarantee sheet and receipt for your video in a safe place for warranty purposes. Precautions Read carefully through this manual to familiarise yourself with this high-quality video recorder. Make sure the rating of your household electricity supply matches that shown on the back of the video recorder. Refer to this chapter and the "Initial installation" chapter to help you install and adjust your video recorder. Do not put the video recorder in a hot or of humid place (to avoid the risk of fire and electric shock). [. . . ] NTSC : National Television Systems Committee. This video can also play MESECAM (middle east secam not secam) cassettes. Auto Head Cleaning This VCR has Auto Head Cleaner. The video head will be cleaned automatically whenever loading or unloading the tape. 13 Still There must be a cassette in the video. Each press of the button moves the picture on one frame. Press the play button to switch back to normal playback. After approximately five minutes on still, the cassette will automatically switch to normal playback If the still picture is jumping, you can steady it by using the PR+ and PR- button. Variable picture search Keep pressing to vary the forward search speed. Keep pressing to vary the rewind search speed. Pressing the above buttons will vary the search speed in two speeds Press to switch back to normal playback. Variable slow motion Starting from playback you can keep pressing control slow motion speed in six steps. Press to switch back to normal playback. - to Finding new recordings (index scan) The video index search system allows you to find the beginning of any recording you have made on your video. Your video automatically records index marks on the tape whenever a recording is started. Press INDEX+ or INDEX- to search forwards or backwards. The video will now wind to the beginning of a recording, play it for about 6 seconds, then wind on to the next one. When you see the recording you want to watch, press PLAY. 14 CM Skip If you press [CM Skip] button on the remote control during playback mode, tape advances for 30 seconds segment. Auto Repeat If you press the PLAY button for 5 secs during playback mode, REP should appear on your display, the video goes into Auto repeat mode This video repeatedly plays the tape from beginning to end. To release this mode, press any mode operation button such as PLAY, FF REW or STOP. Child lock You can only set the child lock with your remote control. Press the button for about 5 seconds. No buttons of front panel can be operated now and LOCK INDICATOR ("SAFE") will be displayed momentarily on LED display. Keep your remote control in a safe place. To release child lock, press any button of the remote control. 15 OSD (On Screen Display) ON & OFF This VCR is set to "OSD (On Screen Display) ON" mode at the factory, but you can change it to OFF mode. When a function is changed at the front display or remote control the change will be displayed on the screen. 1 Press MENU. Choose "VCR SETUP" And press OK. 2 Choose "OSD ON/OFF" 3 If you want OSD OFF mode, press PR- and press OK. OSD characters will not be displayed in the normal picture at the start of each mode change. * Though the 16:9 SET is displayed on the screen, this function is not available for this set. 16 Simple recording Load a cassette with its safety tab in place (see page 23). Press PR+ or PR- to choose the station you want to record. Press SP/LP if you wish to double the length of the cassette's recording time. For example, on an E-240 cassette you can record for up to four hours when SP is displayed, or up to eight hours when LP is displayed. Press to start your recording Press if you want to stop the recording for a short while. Press to continue recording. Press These buttons are used on the following two pages. to stop your recording. 17 Recording cassettes If you want to use the video's timer to record a programme, the clock, date and stations must be set correctly. Load a cassette with its safety tab in place (see page 23) and with enough free tape for the recording. One-touch recording - OTR Press PR+ or PR- to choose the station you want to record. Every time you press , the recording time will increase by 30 minutes. It is possible to record for up to 10 hours if there is enough room on the cassette. To cancel OTR press and hold the STOP button for about five seconds until the video stops recording. [. . . ] Press AV on the remote control until P-_ _ appears on the display of the video, or until a TV picture is displayed. The TV/VCR button on the video remote control will not work. This button will only work if the TV has the appropriate internal switch and a scart lead is connecting the TV and video. * TV/VCR button is not available for this set. The television will not change channel when the video is turned on. If the television will not change channel while the video is on, check whether a scart lead has been connected (See page 3 option 2). If a scart lead has been connected, you need to press the TV/VCR button on the video remote control When the small VCR symbol appears on the display, you can only change channel by using the video remote control. If the TV/VCR button on the video remote control does not work, read the instruction book for the TV to find out about an audio video button. * TV/VCR button is not available for this set. ~ The video has a number other than 36 when RF appears. A number other than 36 might be displayed on the video when RF is flashing in the display This means that the number has been adjusted in the past. The TV needs to be tuned in to get the blue auto set or auto search screen. [. . . ]