Recording From Your Stereo System; Advanced Operations (Second Vcr); Integrating A Second Vcr; Hookup - Hitachi VT-F390A Owner's Manual

Connect the left and right AUDIO OUT on the stereo to the right and left
AUDIO IN on the VCR.
The AUDIO IN (left) on the front of the VCR handles the left-channel or
monaural sound. If you connect an audio source only to AUDIO IN (left),
both left and right hi-fi tracks record as monaural.

Recording from Your Stereo System

With the hookup just shown, you can use your VCR to record a custom
program of selections from your stereo library. The videotape recording will
give you excellent stereo quality and a long-running tape. In this case no
video will be recorded, so you can do the whole thing without turning on the
TV.
Assemble the selections you want to record on the stereo, and insert a blank
VHS cassette into the VCR. Be sure that HIFI is selected in the Initial Setup
screen of the Easy Guide System.
Press DISPLAY, then press 5 on the remote control to select SP or EP.
The EP setting gives you reasonable quality and a longer tape program.
Press AVX on the remote control to turn the LINE (L1) indicator on.
Press REC/IRT on the VCR and start the stereo playing.
To stop recording, press STOP. To play back the recording, rewind the tape
and press PLAY.

Advanced Operations (Second VCR)

Integrating a Second VCR

With another VCR hooked up, you can copy videotapes as needed, and you can get
fancy with multimedia programming. For this discussion, we refer to the model VT-
F390A Hitachi as VCR2 and the other unit as VCR1.

Hookup

To hook up a second VCR, you need:
A video cord with a single jack on each end, and
An audio cord with two jacks on each end, or
A three-way cord that has both audio and video jacks
Study the back of VCR2 (VT-F390A) to find the three color-coded jacks that are
labeled IN. The yellow jack is for video, red and white are for audio. Locate similar
jacks on VCR1. Then, with the power off.
Connect VIDEO OUT on VCR2 to the yellow VIDEO IN on VCR1.
Connect the AUDIO OUT jacks (left and right) on VCR2 to the AUDIO IN
jacks (left and right) on VCR1. Be sure to match left to left (white) and right to right
(red).
Second VCR Hookup Illustration

Copying from One VCR to Another (Dubbing)