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Basic Operation (continued)
Turning on Your VCR for the First Time
When you have finished connecting the cables to your
antenna and TV, plug in the VCR's power cord and press
POWER. The light in the STOP button should come on. If
it flashes, too much moisture has collected inside the unit
for it to operate. Leave the VCR turned on until the inter-
nal heat dries it and the light stops flashing.
Proceed
below when the light in the STOP button is on and not
flashing.
Programming Active Channels Into the VCR Tuner
The
AUTO
PROG
(Automatic
Programming)
button
makes it simple to program TV stations into the VCR's
scan list. The scan list is the list of channels that your VCR
tuner stops on when you press the CHANNEL • or CHAN-
NEL • button. The scan list is empty, however, until you
program
active channels
as described
below.
Note: You must program
the tuner as described
below
before you can use the CHANNEL •/v
buttons.
Automatic
programming
is usually
a "one-time"
proce-
dure, but you will need to repeat it if you move to a loca-
tion that has different
channels,
or if power is interrupted
for an extended
period.
To program
active channels:
1. Turn on the VCR by pressing
the POWER button.
2. Set the NORM/CATVswitch
on the back of the VCR
to the NORM position
if your VCR is connected
to a
home antenna
system.
Set the switch to the CATV
position
if your
VCR is connected
to a cable-TV
system.
Note: Your VCR was shipped from the factory
with the
switch set to NORM.
CHANNEL
SELECT/LOCK
PROGRAMMING
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AUTO p_OG
ERASE
3. Press and release the SELECT/LOCK
button.
The
channel
number will begin flashing.
4. Press and release the AUTO PROG button.
The tuner will automatically
search through
all the
channels
and place the channel numbers
it receives
in the scan list. This takes about a minute. The chan-
nel number
in the display will stop changing
when
the tuner is finished
searching.
5. Press SELECT/LOCK.
The channel
number
will stop flashing,
and Auto-
matic Programming
is completed.
Now you can use
the CHANNEL • and • buttons to select channels.
6. Now turn on your TV and adjust it to view what the
VCR tuner
is receiving,
as explained
in the next
column.
7. After you have set up your TV to view the VCR, you
may want to delete channels
from the scan list, or
add channels
to it. The instructions
are on the nexl
page.
Notes:
• Channel numbers flash when the SELECT/LOCKswitch
is in SELECT,
and the CHANNEL
•/V
buttons
will
select every channel, whether or not it is in the scan list.
• Channel numbers do not flash when the SELECT/LOCK
switch is in LOCK, and the CHANNEL •/•
buttons
will
select only those channels that are in the scan list.
Setting Your TV to the VCR Channel
The "VCR Channel"
is the TV channel you use for view-
ing what the VCR is recording or playing, and for viewing
the signal from VCR tuner when it is stopped. Your TV
must be set to this channel, and the VCR light above the
VCR/TV switch on your VCR must be on.
Selecting the VCR Channel is normally a one-time proce-
dure, since there is little reason ever to change it. Pro-
ceed as follows:
1. Be
sure
the
TUNER/SIMULCAST/LINE
switch
behind the auxiliary control door is set to TUNER.
2. Decide whether you want to view your VCR on Chan-
nel 3 or Channel 4 of the TV. If one of these channels
is vacant in your area, you should use it. Otherwise,
pick the channel you view less.
3. Set the channel switch on the back of the VCR to
whichever channel
you have chosen.
4. Turn on your TV and tune it to the same channel.
This is the "VCR Channel."
Setting the VCR/TV Switch
1. Push the VCR/TVswitch
so that the VCR light is on.
When the tight is on, the VCR is in the "VCR Mode"
and your TV must be tuned to the VCR channel
(channel
3 or 4), Your TV will then display the tape
that you are playing or whatever channel the VCR is
tuned to.
2. Push the VCR/TVswitch
again so that the VCR light
is out. When the light is out, the VCR is in the "TV
Mode,"
and your TV will work like it did before you
connected
the VCR.
The VCR/TV
switch allows
you to record one program
with the VCR while you watch another program
on your
TV. To do this, first put the VCR in the "VCR Mode" (light
on) and start
recording
the program.
Then
press the
VCR/TV
switch
to go to the "TV Mode"
(light out) and
tune your TV to whichever
channel you want to watch.
Note:
Your
VCR automatically
switches to the
"VCR
Mode"
(VCR
light on) when you turn it on with the
POWER button,
and when you start playing a tape.
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