Slow Motion; One Minute Skip; Real-Time Counter; Using The Counter - Optimus 112 (16-549) Owner's Manual

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Notes:
• If you leave the VCR in the freeze-frame
mode for 3 minutes, the VCR stops playing
the tape to protect the video heads.
• To reduce or eliminate jitter in the freeze-
frame picture, press and hold
until the picture is clear.
During freeze-frame, you can advance the pic-
ture one frame at a time by repeatedly pressing
. This feature works best with video cas-
SLOW
settes recorded at the SP or EP speed. Press
to return to normal playback.
PAUSE

Slow Motion

To start slow motion playback, while a tape is
playing, press . Press
SLOW
to return to normal playback. During slow
PLAY
motion, the sound is muted and the picture
quality is lower than during normal playback.
Slow motion picture quality is best with tapes
recorded at the SP or EP speed.
Notes:
• If you leave the VCR in the slow-motion
mode for 3 minutes, the VCR stops playing
the tape to protect the video heads.
• If the slow-motion picture is poor, press
and hold s or
CH CH
improves.

One Minute Skip

You can skip over unwanted material on the re-
corded tape, such as commercials. Press
during playback. The VCR fast for-
ZERO/1MIN
wards over the next minute of recording, then
resumes normal playback.
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REAL-TIME COUNTER

Using the Counter

Your VCR's counter shows how long a tape
has been running. To have the counter display
s or t
CH CH
on the TV screen, press
mote control.
The counter does not reset if you eject a tape
then put in a new tape. To reset the counter to
0:00:00
Note: The real-time counter might stop if you
fast-forward or rewind through a blank section
on the tape. This is normal.

Using the Zero Search Function

again or
SLOW
You can reset the counter to
position on the tape and then return to that po-
sition. This lets you quickly return to a selected
place on the tape later.
Follow these steps to use the zero search func-
tion.
1. While a tape is playing, if the counter does
2. Within 5 seconds, press
t until the picture
3. When you want to return to the selected
Notes:
• If you press
• The counter does not work with blank
DISP/ENT
, press COUNTER RESET
0:00:00
not appear on the TV screen, press
once to display it.
COUNTER RESET
COUNTER RESET
again at the location you want to return to
later. The counter resets to
location, stop the tape, then press
. The tape rewinds or fast-forwards
1MIN
and automatically stops when it reaches
0:00:00 .
to rewind the tape past
REW
, the time appears with a minus
0:00:00
(–) sign.
tapes or blank portions
recorded tapes.
on the re-
.
at any
.
0:00:00
ZERO/
of partially