Recording Video Or Tv Programs - Sony DCR-TRV17 Operating Instructions (primary manual) Operating Instructions Manual

Recording video or TV programs

Using the A/V connecting cable
You can record a tape from another VCR or a TV program from a TV that has video/
audio outputs. Use your camcorder as a recorder.
Before operation
Set DISPLAY to LCD in the menu settings. (The default setting is LCD.)
(1) Insert a blank tape (or a tape you want to record over) into your camcorder. If
(2) Set the POWER switch to VCR on your camcorder.
(3) Press z REC and the button on its right simultaneously on your camcorder,
(4) Press N on the VCR to start playback if you record a tape from a VCR. Select
(5) Press X on your camcorder at the scene where you want to start recording
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TV
When you have finished dubbing a tape
Press x on both your camcorder and the VCR.
If your VCR is a monaural type
Connect the yellow plug of the A/V connecting cable to the video output jack and the
white or the red plug to the audio output jack on the VCR or the TV. When the white
plug is connected, the left channel audio is output, and the red plug is connected, the
right channel audio is output.
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you are recording a tape from the VCR, insert a recorded tape into the VCR.
then immediately press X on your camcorder.
a TV program if you record from a TV. The picture from a TV or VCR appears
on the screen.
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PAUSE
REC
OUT
S VIDEO
VIDEO
AUDIO
: Signal flow
S VIDEO
AUDIO/VIDEO