Playback functions, Playing a cassette, Playing ntsc cassettes – Philips VR700/58 User Manual

Page 16: Tape position indication, Still picture/slow motion

Playing a cassette

Put a cassette into the cassette slot. ’

’ will appear on

the display.

Press the

PLAY G

button.

To stop, press the

STOP h

button.

To eject the cassette, press the

EJECT J

button on the

video recorder.
To eject a cassette, you can also use the

EJECT J

button

on the remote control

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

button, you can show the present tape

position on the TV screen.

During playback press the

COUNTER

button.

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 ’

’

and then shows the playing time after the tape has
been running for a few seconds.

D If there is no recording on the tape and you have

selected ’COUNTER’, the counter will stop.

Searching for tape position with the picture
(picture search)

While a cassette is playing, press the

(reverse) or

(forward) button once or several times.

To stop a certain place on the tape, press the

PLAY G

button.

D During picture search, the picture quality may not be

so good and there will be no sound.

Still picture/Slow motion

Press the

STILL R

button. A still picture will appear on

the screen.

Each time you press

STILL R

again, the picture will

move on one step.

When you hold the

STILL R

button, the tape will be

played in slow motion.

When you press the

button several times, you have

a choice of several playback speeds.
During slow motion there will be no sound.

PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS