Manual recording, Recording without automatic switch-off, Protecting your recordings – Philips 20PV230/07 User Manual

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Use the ’Manual recording’ function to spontaneously start
recording (e.g. to record a TV show already in progress).

E Please refer to section ’Recording without automatic

switch-off’, if you want to manually start and stop your
own recording.

E Please refer to section ’Recording with automatic

switch-off’, if you would like to start your own recording
but want it to end automatically (e.g. not to record all the
way to the end of the cassette).

Recording without automatic switch-off

Place a cassette in the machine.

Use the button

;P q

=P r

to select the

programme number which you would like to record from,
e.g. ’P01’. This picture will appear on the screen:

0:01:20

P01

D If a TV channel sends a channel name, this is

displayed on the screen.

D Programme number ’E1’ is provided for recording

from external sources (via the

EXT

scart socket).

Programme number ’AV’ is for recording from the
audio and video front sockets.

To record the TV programme, press the button

RECORD n

on the remote control or the button

on the

TV-Video Combi.

D During recording, the recording lamp ’

RECORD 5

’ on

the front of the machine lights up. The following will
appear on the screen:

0:01:20

P01

D Use the button

to display the current tape

position on the screen.

Stop recording with the

STOP h

button.

D If you would like to turn off the screen during the

recording, press the button

STANDBY m

D To switch the screen back on again, press the

;P q

button.

D With the screen switched off you can only stop a

recording in process by pressing the button

STANDBY m

for more than 3 seconds.

D During a recording you can also switch to other TV

channels.

Recording with automatic switch-off
(OTR one-touch-recording)

Place a cassette in the machine.

Use

;P q

=P r

to select the programme number

of the TV channel you wish to record.

Press the

RECORD n

button on the remote control.

Press the

RECORD n

button on the remote control several

times to add 30 minutes to the recording time.

D To cancel this entry, press the

CLEAR (CL)

button.

D The recording time can be extended only to up to 4

hours.

Protecting your recordings

So that you don’t accidentally delete an important recording,
remove the special tab on the narrow side of the cassette with
a screwdriver or slide the special tab to the left. Later, if you
no longer want to protect your recording, you can seal the gap
again with sticky tape or slide the special tab to the right.

MANUAL RECORDING