Playback functions, Playing a cassette, Playing ntsc cassettes – Philips VR205/05 User Manual

Page 14: Tape position indication, Still picture

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

STOP/EJECT ?

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 ’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.

D Some special features (for example, still picture) are

not possible while you are playing an NTSC
cassette.

Tape position indication

When playing a tape, by pressing the

button, you can

show the present tape position on the TV screen.

You have a choise of selecting ’

LINEAR COUNTER’ or

’

TIME LEFT’. The LINEAR COUNTER shows the tape position

in hours, minutes and seconds. This LINEAR COUNTER is reset
to 0:00:00 everytime a cassette is inserted even if the tape is
not at the beginning. You can also reset to 0:00:00 by pushing
the

CLEAR (CL), y

button. ’TIME LEFT’ shows the actual

amount of playing/recording time left on the cassette in hours
and minutes.

D When you play an NTSC cassette, the video

recorder will only show ’

LINEAR COUNTER’.

Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme
number for the video recorder.

Press the

button on the remote control. The main

menu will appear.

Select the line ’

COUNTER’ with the

P q

P r

button

and confirm with the

button.

Select the type of counter with the

P q

button and

confirm with the

button.

D To reset the tape position ’LINEAR COUNTER’ to

’0:00:00’, press the

CLEAR (CL), y

button.

To end, press the

TV/STANDBY m

button.

D This video recorder will automatically recognise the

length of the tape.

D When you put a cassette in the video recorder and

you want to see ’

TIME LEFT’, the video recorder

must first calculate the time played. Therefore, ’-:--’
appears first and only after the tape has been
running for a few seconds the playing time will be
shown.

D If the video recorder does not find a recording at a

certain tape position with ’

LINEAR COUNTER’

switched on, 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

Press the

STILL R

button. A still picture will appear on

the screen.
Interference stripes will appear on the screen.

Each time you press

STILL R

again, the picture will

move on one step.

PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS