Sony SLV-SE220D - Manual (Page 55)

To use the VCR after setting the timer
To use the VCR before a reeording begins, just press i / 1 . The© indieator
turns off and the VCR switehes on. Remember to press i / 1 to reset the VCR
to reeording standby after using the VCR.
You ean also do the following tasks while the VCR is reeording:
• Reset the eounter (page 38).
• Display tape information on the TV sereen (page 41).
• Cheek the timer settings (page 59).
• Wateh another TV programme (page 41).
To use the Auto Tape Speed function*^
In step 2 above, press m to seleet AUTO. When you are reeording a
programme in the SP mode and the remaining tape length beeomes shorter
than the reeording time, the reeording tape speed is automatieally ehanged to
the LP mode. Note that some noise will appear on the pieture when the tape
speed is ehanged. To operate this funetion eorreetly, the “TAPE SELECT”
setting in the USER SET menu must be aeeurate (see page 68).
Tips
• To set the line input video source, you can also use the INPUT SELECT button.
• Even if you set TIMER METHOD*
1 to SHOWVIEW in the EASY OPERATION
menu, you ean set the timer manually. Press MENU to seleet TIMER
PROGRAMMING, then go to step 2.
• To eheek, ehange, or eaneel the programme setting, see “Cheeking/ehanging/
eaneelling timer settings” on page 59.
Notes
• When setting the timer with VPS/PDC* 1 signals, enter the start and stop times
exaetly as indieated in the TV programme guide. Otherwise, the VPS/PDC
i^etion will not work.
• If the VPS/PDC* 1 signal is too weak or the broadeasting station failed to transmit
VPS/PDC signals, the VCR will start reeording at the set time without using the
VPS/PDC funetion.
• The© and ^X) indieators flash in the display window when you press i/1 with
no tape inserted.
• The VPS/PDC f^etion* 1 is automatieally set to off for the timer reeording of a
satellite programme.
* 1 not available on SLV-SE620D/E
* 2 not available on SLV-SE220D
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