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NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) is a different TV standard to PAL  and is used 

in some Non-European Countries. Your VCR can playback pre-recorded NTSC tapes onto a 

PAL system TV, but cannot record an NTSC signal onto a video tape.

•

You cannot record NTSC signals or dub NTSC tapes onto other VCR’s from this VCR.

•

You cannot use Slow speed, Still frame, Double Speed, Frame Advance or Tape 

Remaining with a pre-recorded NTSC tape.

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On some televisions, the picture may appear in black and white or there may be no 

picture. This does not indicate a fault with your VCR.

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On some televisions, the picture may shrink vertically causing black bands to appear at 

the top and bottom of your screen.

•

On some televisions, the played-back picture may roll vertically, this does not indicate a 

fault with your VCR.

Your VCR is capable of recording and playing back on an S-VHS cassette. This standard of 
video cassette will give you increased picture quality. You will only be able to record S-VHS if 
S-VHS in the Mode Menu is selected to AUTO.

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Press 

 to display the main menu on the 

screen. The main menu has four options 

including MODE. 

 To access the mode menu highlight MODE         

using the [

/

] buttons, then press  

.

 Highlight the option to be changed using 

the [

/

]  buttons. Press  [

/

] to 

select AUTO, ON or OFF as appropriate,  

press  

 then 

 to return to the 

normal screen.

 Selecting OFF will disable the 

NICAM sound reception.

  If the VCR is playing a poor quality 

recording, the picture may turn black and 

white. Selecting PAL  may reduce this 

(depending on the recording), although 

coloured speckles will appear on black and 

white recordings.

 This enables the blue background colour. That is, the TV screen will be blue if  

a TV channel with no signal is selected, an unrecorded section of tape is played or the quality 

of the recording on the tape is poor. Select OFF to disable this feature.

If you want to playback repeatedly an entire video tape, this feature will 

automatically rewind at the end of the tape and replay.  This function enables or disables this 

feature.

 When this function is switched ON the VCR will playback both Hi-Fi and Mono 

audio tracks.

→

 : CHANGE

 

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This feature allows the PLAYBACK and RECORDING of wide screen format signals (16.9) which 

should automatically change the picture size setting on a wide screen TV. To allow the 

operation of this feature, ensure 16:9 mode is set to AUTO in the MODE menu.

A scart connection must be used between the VCR (SOCKET L1) and the TV.

During PLAYBACK of a 16:9 encoded tape the TV should switch to (Widescreen) 16:9 mode.

 This feature allows the VCR power consumption to be 

≤1.5 Watt in 

POWERSAVE mode. Auto POWERSAVE mode will engage if the VCR is not operated for 3 

hours.

 Selecting Auto will enable your VCR to 

record in Super-VHS format provided an S-VHS 

cassette is being used, or in the S-VHS ET 

(Expansion Technology) format when using a 

VHS cassette and the S-VHS ET button on the VCR 

front panel is pressed (S-VHS ET will only work in SP 

mode).

 You can select the output of L1 to be either a composite signal where one path is 

used for the video information or a Y/C signal, where the luminance (Y) and the colour (C) 

information are separated and two paths are used for the video information. This will enhance 

picture quality.

 The input of L2 can be changed between composite input or Y/C input. Y/C input will 

enhance the picture quality.

• Not all pre recorded tapes are compatible with 16:9 playback.

• This feature must be supported by TV’s equipped with 16:9 switching.

• 16:9 format recording can only be made from L2 scart input.

 

 

 : S E L EC T

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You can search the tape in 30 second time intervals. To do this follow the procedure below:

Press

 (

) to start the video tape playing.

Press 

 on the remote control. 

The number of times you press 

determines the forward search time.

•

After searching, normal playback

will resume automatically.

Your VCR records a marker signal on the tape at the start of each recording. These signals can 

be used later to locate the starting point of a recording.

Press

to locate a previous programme or the next programme.

For example,  

Load the video tape into the VCR.

Press 

three times. The number 3 will appear on the on-screen display, and the 

VCR will fast forward to locate the third recording after the current one. 

Press 

once. A -1 will appear on the on-screen display and the VCR will rewind 

to locate the beginning of the current recording.

To cancel the search before it has finished, press  

 (

) or 

 (

) .

•

Recordings must be longer than 3 minutes..

•

The starting point of playback may vary.

•

This feature will only work with video tapes recorded on a VCR with the DPSS feature.

/

-1

+1

+2

+3

RECORDING 5

RECORDING 4

RECORDING 3

RECORDING 2

RECORDING 1

1 press = 30 seconds
2 presses = 1 minute
3 presses = 1 minute 30 seconds
4 presses = 2 minutes

 

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