Sony HVR-M15E Operating Instructions Manual page 11

5 PLAY button
When you press this button, the indicator lights and
playback begins.
If you press this button while holding down REW
button during stop, the tape is rewound to its beginning
and starts playing automatically (during rewind, REW
indicator lights and PLAY indicator blinks).
Notes
• When the unit is playing back a part of the tape
where the recording format has been changed within
HDV format, DVCAM format, or DV format, or
between 60i format and 50i format, the picture and
sound may be distorted.
• The unit does not have an LP recording mode of the
consumer DV format.
6 REW (rewind) button
When you press this button, the indicator lights and the
tape starts rewinding.
2 Indicator section
1 CAUTION indicator
Blinks when an error occurs.
For details on cautions, see "Self-diagnosis display/
Warning Indicators" on page 62.
1 CAUTION indicator
2 q (cassette) indicator
3 HDV indicator
4 DVCAM indicator
During rewind, the image on the monitor is not
displayed (you can see the picture as it is seen in EE
mode during rewind). To locate a scene while
monitoring the picture, hold this button down during
rewind, playback or in the playback pause mode.
If you press PLAY button while holding down this
button during stop, the tape is rewound to its beginning
and starts playing automatically (during rewind, REW
indicator lights and PLAY indicator blinks).
Notes
• If you set [EE/PB SEL] in [IN/OUT REC] menu to
[PB], EE picture and EE audio signals will not be
output.
• If you set [FF/REW SPEED] in [VTR SET] menu to
[SHUTTLEMAX], the picture is played back during
rewind.
For details on running speed with [SHUTTLEMAX], see
"FF/REW SPEED" in "VTR SET" menu on page 51.
7 STOP button
Press this button to stop the tape transport operation
completely.
5 60 indicator
6 50 indicator
7 HDV-i.LINK indicator
8 DVCAM-i.LINK indicator
2 q (cassette) indicator
Lights when a digital video cassette is loaded.
This indicator lights during standby, when the cassette
is inserted to the unit. While the cassette is being
ejected, the indicator blinks.
For details of inserting or ejecting a cassette, see
"Inserting/Ejecting Cassettes" on page 21.
9 DV-i.LINK indicator
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