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Recording
Using One-Touch Recording (OTR)
One-Touch Recording (OTR) is a way to begin recording immediately, and have
your VCR stop recording and turn off automatically after your show is over.
1
Load a tape with its erasure prevention tab intact into the VCR.
2
Set the recording format. See Selecting Recording Format on page
24.
3
Set the speed at which you would like to record by pressing SP/EP on the
remote control or REC SPEED on the front panel.
4
Set the VCR's input to tuner by pressing INPUT on the remote until a
channel number shows on-screen or on the front panel display. If you
would like to record channels from a PRIMESTAR
until a channel number with the PRIMESTAR light (
front panel display.
5
Press CHANNEL on the remote control or on the front panel or the
number buttons on the remote to select the channel to be recorded. If
you are using a cable box that the VCR does not control, select channel 3
or 4 on the VCR, and change the channel on the cable box.
6
Press REC/˙REC LENGTH on the front panel twice. The first time you
press the button, recording will begin. The second press of the same
button adds 30 minutes to the OTR timer, displayed on the front panel.
7
Press REC/˙REC LENGTH for each additional 30 minutes you want to
add to the OTR timer, up to 4 hours. If you press the button 10 times, you
will see End on the front panel display. The VCR will record until the end
of the tape. If you press the button an eleventh time, the VCR will resume
normal manual recording.
The OTR timer will begin to count down backwards. When it reaches zero, the
VCR will stop recording and turn off. The OTR light on the front panel display
will light up during the OTR recording.
If you program too much time into the OTR timer
Continue pressing REC/˙REC LENGTH. After the End point you can start
over from zero, adding time in 30 minute intervals.
How OTR affects other controls
If you press PAUSE during OTR, the VCR will pause recording, but the OTR
timer continues to count down.
Press PAUSE again to resume recording from the record-pause mode. The
REC/˙REC LENGTH will not resume your recording.
If you press STOP during OTR, you erase the OTR programming.
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