Tape Position; Rectifying Picture Disturbances - Philips RT24A/00T Operating Instructions Manual

Tape position.

Establishing your current position on the
tape.
The tape length is indicated on the cassette in minutes, e.g.:
'T160' is 160 minutes of playing time (= 3:00 hours).
You will find the tape length printed on the left hand side of
the front narrow edge.
However, the actual playing time might be a little longer than
specified (e.g.: 3:05 hours).
You can read the exact number of minutes played in the
display during fast forward, rewinding, recording, playing
back and pause/stop, e.g.: 'U1:25'.
Some more useful tips:
* The video recorder has to calculate the tape position
when a new cassette is inserted. The video recorder will
therefore display ' - : - -' first,and after a few seconds
the used playing time will be displayed.
* Only use T160 cassettes.
Other cassettes will indicate a wrong tape position.
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Rectifying picture disturbances.

Every time you insert a cassette in the video recorder, it
automatically sets the right tracking position.
You can adjust the automatic tracking position for recordings
recorded on another machine. If you need to do so, proceed
as follows:
1 PLAY G
Press button
2
MENU
Press button
3 TU
Press button
timised.
4
OK
Press button . This setting will be retained until the
cassette is removed.
Note:
* Cleaning function: Select the 3h-playback mode. Dur-
ing playback, hold the
onds. The video head cleaning function starts.
* Some cassettes have poor picture and sound quality.
This is not a malfunction on your video recorder.
* If the picture jumps vertically, switch the 'V SYNC'
function in BASIC SETTINGS to (INT).
* If playback is poor, press button
twice.
.
until the playback quality is op-
MENU
button for several sec-
PLAY G
OK
or .