User manual PHILIPS AUDIO CD RECORDER ESTIMATE CDR778BK99

[. . . ] TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of contents GENERAL INFORMATION AND DISCS Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Technical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Discs for recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Discs for playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CONTROLS AND CONNECTIONS Controls on the front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Connections at the back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 DISPLAY DISPLAY indications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 DISPLAY messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 MENU messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 INSTALLATION Connections general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Analog connections CD recorder & CD player . . . . . . . . . . 14 Analog connections CD player deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Digital coaxial connections CD recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Digital optical connections CD recorder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Power supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Setup recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Inserting batteries in the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 REMOTE CONTROL Remote control commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Inserting discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 RECORDING Remarks about recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Recording modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 High speed recording from internal CD player. . . . . . . . . . 19 Listen mode recording from internal CD player . . . . . . . . 20 Manual recording from external CD player. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Autostart recording from external CD player - CD SYNC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Finalizing CDR & CDRW discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Unfinalizing CDRW discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Erasing CDRW discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 PLAYING Play a 2-disc changer (Changer mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Playing CDs on Deck 1 and/or Deck 2 (DJ mode) . . . . . 25 Selecting a track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Shuffle (random order) play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Repeat CD, track or program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 PROGRAMMING Remarks about programming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 MENU MODE Remarks about Menu mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 General operation of Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 A. Text input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 B. Erasing text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 C. Reviewing CD Text memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 D. [. . . ] 2 To stop recording manually, press STOP on the CD recorder. UPDATE lights up and SYNC and · If STOP 9 was pressed within 3 seconds after pressing PLAY, no recording will take place. · To interrupt recording, press PAUSE on the CD recorder. (Autostart recording is disabled. ) To resume, press RECORDING-RECORD on the CD recorder. After recording the display will show UPDATE for several seconds. Note: - Recordings from DAT, DCC or analog sources will only stop after 20 seconds silence. - Auto track is always active. The CD-SYNC feature enables you to make fast and easy recordings of a CD. Track increments are automatically detected from the source material. Track increments cannot be added manually. In analog source material a silence of 2. 7 seconds or more is automatically detected as a track increment. Preparing for autostart recording 1 Make sure the disc is absolutely free of scratches and dust particles. 2 Press EXT(ernal) SOURCE repeatedly until (depending on the digital connection used): DIGITAL I, OPTICAL I or ANALOG lights up and DIGITAL 1, OPTICAL or ANALOG appears on the display. REM REC TIME TRACK TOTAL REM TRACK TIME STEP Important: If you want to play the recorded CDR disc on any regular CD player, it must first be finalized. Finalized CDRW discs play only on CDRW compatible CD players. For recording from CD changers always use REC EXT DISC. SYNC MANUAL DIGITAL I OPTICAL I ANALOG CD RECORD CHANGER CD RW RW PROG SHUFFLE ALL REPEAT SCAN TRACK 3 With the CD recorder stopped, press RECORDING-TYPE four times: if you wish to record a complete disc or program. and SYNC start to flash and the display shows REC EXT DISCand WAIT followed by the track number, the total remaining time and START SOURCE. REM REC TIME TRACK TOTAL REM TRACK TIME STEP SYNC MANUAL DIGITAL I OPTICAL I ANALOG CD RECORD CHANGER CD RW RW PROG SHUFFLE ALL REPEAT SCAN TRACK · If input label (DIGITAL I) flashes, the digital connection is incorrect. Start autostart recording 1 To start recording, press PLAY on the selected source. The CD recorder automatically starts to record and lights continuously. The track number and track time appear on the display. 22 RECORDING English Finalizing CDR & CDRW discs During finalizing the Table of Contents (TOC) is written to the disc. Finalizing is a simple procedure, necessary to: - be able to play recordings on a CD PLAYER, - avoid further unwanted recordings on a disc, - avoid erasure of tracks on a CDRW, - write CD text on a CDR(W). Auto finalizing Auto finalizing is possible when using the MAKE CD recording function. Manual finalizing 1 Make sure the disc (in the CD recorder deck) is absolutely free of scratches and dust particles. 2 With the recorder stopped press FINALIZE. [. . . ] · text memory full (MEMORY FULL / FINALIZE CD). When a CDRW has to be unfinalized for recording. Erase text for other disc(s) or finalize other disc(s) to obtain memory space. · total remaining time not sufficient, try programming tracks (see programming). [. . . ]