User manual PALSONIC VCR6200HS

[. . . ] VCR2200 / VCR6200HS Video recorder User Guide VCR2200 VCR6200HS PALSONIC CORPORATION PTY LTD 1 JOYNTON AVENUE WATERLOO NSW 2017 AUSTRALIA TEL: (02) 9313 7111 FAX: (02) 9313 7555 www. palsonic. com. au PALSONIC CUSTOMER SERVICE TELEPHONE AUSTRALIA: 1300 657 888 See back page for quick-start guide WORTH knowing Please keep the video's guarantee sheet and receipt for your video in a safe place for warranty purposes. Precautions Read carefully through this manual to familiarise yourself with this high-quality video recorder. Make sure the rating of your household electricity supply matches that shown on the back of the video recorder. Refer to this chapter and the "Initial installation" chapter to help you install and adjust your video recorder. Do not put the video recorder in a hot or of humid place (to avoid the risk of fire and electric shock). [. . . ] Press MENU to end. 2 Clearing programme locations Clearing programme locations allows you to erase any stored programmes you no longer want. 1 These buttons are used on the following two pages. Press MENU. Choose 'PR Erase' by pressing PR+ twice and then OK. 2 Press PR+ or PR- to select the station you want to clear. If you don't want to erase the station, press MENU. 11 Front panel controls The following buttons are on the front of your video. STANDBY/ON Stand-by/ Power on Stop and eject Front input sockets for connecting a stereo camcorder (left and right channels). This is only available on some models. Check the front of your video to see if this connection is available. STOP/ EJECT - VIDEO L AUDIO R CH. /TRK Change the station Recording or one-touch record Every time you press the button the recording time is increased by 30 minutes. RECORD /OTR REW F. FWD Rewind or fast forward a cassette from stop, or picture search backwards or forwards if the video is playing a cassette. PLAY Play 12 PLAYING cassettes Play Push the cassette smoothly and squarely into the cassette bay, with its windows pointing up. Start Playback If you hear an unclear or mixed sound output in different languages, select one of the sound options, see page 25. If this screen does not appear when you press the button, A. SEL is not available on your video. The screen will only appear if you use a hi-fi tape or play a hi-fi or NICAM recording. Stop Playback Fast forward or rewind the cassette from stop. These buttons are used on the following two pages. Eject the cassette. When you load a protected cassette such as pre-recorded film (see page 23) playback will start automatically. When you are playing tapes of poor quality or tapes which have been recorded on another machine, you can use the PR+ or PR- buttons while the cassette is playing to reduce horizontal interferences stripes. Playing NTSC tapes on PAL TV: If you play cassettes which have been recorded on the NTSC colour system (as used in the USA), you can watch the pictures on most PAL TVs. On older TVs, some black lines may appear at the top and bottom of the screen. This video can also play MESECAM (middle east secam not secam) cassettes. The video head will be cleaned automatically whenever loading or unloading the tape. 13 Still There must be a cassette in the video. Each press of the button moves the picture on one frame. Press the play button to switch back to normal playback. After approximately five minutes on still, the cassette will automatically switch to normal playback If the still picture is jumping, you can steady it by using the PR+ and PR- button. Variable picture search Keep pressing to vary the forward search speed. Keep pressing to vary the rewind search speed. Pressing the above buttons will vary the search speed in two speeds Press to switch back to normal playback. Variable slow motion Starting from playback you can keep pressing control slow motion speed in six steps. Press to switch back to normal playback. - to Finding new recordings (index scan) The video index search system allows you to find the beginning of any recording you have made on your video. Your video automatically records index marks on the tape whenever a recording is started. Press INDEX+ or INDEX- to search forwards or backwards. The video will now wind to the beginning of a recording, play it for about 6 seconds, then wind on to the next one. When you see the recording you want to watch, press PLAY. 14 CM Skip If you press [CM Skip] button on the remote control during playback mode, tape advances for 30 seconds segment. Auto Repeat If you press the PLAY button for 5 secs during playback mode, REP should appear on your display, the video goes into Auto repeat mode This video repeatedly plays the tape from beginning to end. To release this mode, press any mode operation button such as PLAY, FF REW or STOP. Child lock You can only set the child lock with your remote control. Press the button for about 5 seconds. No buttons of front panel can be operated now and LOCK INDICATOR ("SAFE") will be displayed momentarily on LED display. To release child lock, press any button of the remote control. 15 OSD (On Screen Display) ON & OFF This VCR is set to "OSD (On Screen Display) ON" mode at the factory, but you can change it to OFF mode. When a function is changed at the front display or remote control the change will be displayed on the screen. 1 Press MENU. Choose "VCR SETUP" And press OK. 2 Choose "OSD ON/OFF" 3 If you want OSD OFF mode, press PR- and press OK. [. . . ] Precautions Station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Technical information Dimensions Width x height x depth 360 x 91 x 280 mm 3. 3 kg Weight Video System Speeds VHS Short play and long play Power supply Voltage Power consumption 240 V 50Hz Mono 14 Watts Hi-Fi 16 Watts Hi-Fi (Available on some models. See page 25) Frequency response 20 Hz to 20 KHz > 80dB Dynamic range Signal-to-Noise-Ratio > 60dB System Video Channel range Channel locations RF Out PAL - B/G VHF 2 - 12, UHF 21 - 69, CATV (Hyperband) 99 + AUX UHF CH 21 - 69 (36) General Temperature range Humidity range Timer 50 C to 350 C < 80 % 8 events, 1 month Design and specification subject to change without notice. 26 -MEMO------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27 -MEMO------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Problem solving guide The video has the time or - -. - -on the display. If while you are setting up the video, the timer or - -. - - is in the display, the video is switched off or has already gone through the auto set procedure (OK has already been pressed). In this case, please turn to page 6 and carry out step 2 until you see the manual tuning screen. A blue screen is displayed when you switch the video on. If a blue screen appears when you switch the video on, the AV button has been pressed. [. . . ]