User Manual

ADVANCED OPERATION

SEARCHING THE VIDEO TAPE

DIGITAL PROGRAMME SEARCH SYSTEM (DPSS)

Your VCR records a marker signal on the tape at the start of each recording. These signals can

be used later to locate the starting point of a recording.

Press DPSS to locate a previous programme or the next programme.

For example,

1. Load the video tape into the VCR.

2. Press DPSS three times. A 3 will appear on the on-screen display, and the VCR will

fast forward to locate the third recording after the current one.

3. Press DPSS once. A -1 will appear on the on-screen display and the VCR will rewind

to locate the beginning of the current recording.

4. To cancel the search before it has finished, press STOP ( ) or PLAY/X2 ( ) .

NOTES:

SKIP SEARCHING THE VIDEO TAPE

You can search the tape in 30 second time intervals. To do this follow the procedure below:

1. Press PLAY/X2 ( ) to start the video tape playing.

2. Press SKIP SEARCH on the remote control.

The number of times you press SKIP SEARCH

determines the forward search time.

• After searching, normal playback

will resume automatically

• Recordings must be longer than 3 minutes..

• The starting point of playback may vary.

• This feature will only work with video tapes recorded on a VCR with the DPSS feature.

-1

RECORDING 5

RECORDING 4

RECORDING 3

RECORDING 2

RECORDING 1

DPSS

Signals

Current tape position

Fast ForwardRewind

DPSS

Number

1 press = 30 seconds.

2 presses = 1 minute.

3 presses = 1 minute 30 seconds.

4 presses = 2 minutes.