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OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS PHILIPS VR805/07, VR806/07
Congratulations on the purchase of one of the most sophisticated and 1. INSTALLATION ................................... 2
simple-to-use video recorders (VCR) on the market. With this VCR you
Connecting to the TV-set ........................... 2
can record and play VHS-standard cassettes.
Autoinstall ....................................... 4
Initial Installation .................................. 4
Successive Installation .......................
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1. INSTALLATION Important for the United Kingdom Connecting with scart cable and ’Easy link/NexTView’ This apparatus is fitted with an approved moulded 13 Amp plug. To change a fuse in this type of plug proceed as follows: a Remove fuse cover and fuse. With the function ’Easy Link/NexTView’, your video recorder b Fix new fuse which should be a BS1362 3A, A.S.T.A. or can exchange information with the television. Heed the BSI approved type. operating instruction of your television. With ’Easy Link
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Connecting with scart cable without ’Easy Connecting without scart cable Link/NexTView’ If your television does not have a scart (EURO-AV) socket, please do not read further here, but turn to the next paragraph ’Connecting without scart cable’. a Remove the aerial cable plug from your TV set and insert it into the 2 socket at the back of the video recorder. b Plug one end of the aerial cable provided into the TV socket on the video recorder and the other end into the aerial input socket on your
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Autoinstall Automatic TV Channel Allocation (FOLLOW TV) The video recorder will search for all TV channels. It stores TV channels found in the following sequence: BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, With this function the video recorder maintains the same CH 4, CH 5, SKY, others. channel sequence as on the TV set, in case you connected your videorecorder to a TV set without scart cable. This only Initial Installation functions if the video recorder (socket AV1 EXT1 ) and the TV set are connected with a scart cab
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k Repeat stepsh toj until all TV channels have been g Select function ’ON’ with the menu buttons Q or P . allocated. When you select ’OFF’, the function will be switched off. l To finish, press the MENU button. h Confirm with the OK button. D When the function is switched on, ’DEC’ appears in the display. Connecting a decoder or additional equipment i To end, press the MENU button. You can also connect additional equipment to the AV2 EXT2 Manual TV Channel Search socket. For instance: decoder, s
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E If you don’t know the frequency or channel of the TV Sort/Clear TV channels manually channel of your choice, press the menu button P to start the channel search. D With ’Connecting with Easy Link/NexTView’ the video recorder automatically loads the TV channels from the TV g In the line ’PROGRAMME NUMBER’ select the pro- set. Hence, you can not select this function. gramme number you want e.g.: ’01’, using the menu buttons Q or P . a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme numbe
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E Enter/Alter: With the Q or P or with the 0-9 button. Setting the clock and the date E Store: With the OK button. E Confirm: With the menu button P . If the time in the video recorder display is not correct or if ’--:--’ appears in the display, please set the clock manually. E Exit menu: With the MENU button. a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme number for the video recorder. b Press the MENU button. The main menu appears. c Select the line ’INSTALLATION’ with the menu butt
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2. PLAYBACK Playback a cassette Searching for tape position with picture (picture search) a Insert a cassette into the cassette slot. a During playback, press the H (reverse) or I (for- ward) button once or several times. b To interrupt at the position required, press the PLAYG button. D During picture search, the picture quality is affected and the sound is turned off. Still picture/Slow motion b Press the PLAYG playback button. a Press the STILLR button. A still picture appears on the screen.
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Automatic search for tape position (Index Tracking during still picture search) If the still picture vibrates vertically, you can improve the still picture as follows: At the beginning of each recording, the video recorder marks the tape with a index code mark. a During still picture, press the MENU button. a Press the INDEXE button. Then press the I button to b Select the line ’PLAY FUNCTIONS’ with the menu buttons select the next code mark or the H button for the pre- P= or P; and confirm with
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3. MANUAL RECORDING Recording without automatic switch-off Auto-assembling a Insert a cassette. You can use the auto-assembling function to join individual recordings without any major picture disturbance between the b Use the P; or P= button to select the programme recordings. number (programme name) from which you wish to record. a During playback, search for the correct position on the tape. D When the function ’Direct record’ is switched on, select the programme number on the TV set. With th
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Automatic recording from a satellite Direct Record receiver (SAT RECORDING) With this function switched on, and the video recorder switched to standby, the video recorder automatically takes You can only use this function, when you have a satellite the channel number which is currently selected on the receiver, which can control other equipment by a ’program- television when it starts recording, by means of the scart ming’ function. cable. D With ’Connecting with scart cable and ’Easy Link/NexT-
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4. AUTOMATIC (PROGRAMMED) RECORDING The video recorder needs the following information for every d Enter the entire PlusCode number (up to 9 digits) printed programmed recording: in your TV guide next to the start time of a TV programme. If you made a mistake, clear with the CLEAR (CL) button. * the date on which the recording is to be made * the programme number for the TV channel TIMER * the start and stop time of the recording VIDEOPLUSPROGRAMMING * VPS/PDC on or off * the recording speed (SP
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i Please note that you inserted a cassette without erase D Select recording at daily or weekly intervals in the field protection. Switch off with the STANDBYm button. ’DATE’, with the SELECT button. The programmed recording will only function when the ’MO-FR’: Recording to be made from Mondays to Fridays video recorder is switched off with the STANDBYm but- inclusive. ton. ’MO’: Weekly recordings on the same weekday. D If one or more of the TIMER blocks are occupied, ’k’ D Use the SELECT button
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How to check or alter a TIMER ’NexTView Link’ a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme This video recorder is equipped with the function ’NexTView number for the video recorder. Link’. If your television is also equiped with this function, you can mark TV programmes on the television for programming. b Press the TIMERs button on the remote control. These TV programmes will automatically be transmitted to a The programming mode selected last is marked. TIMER block on the video re
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5. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS Changing the TV system Setting the On Screen Display (OSD) If you play back recordings made on another video recorder, You can switch the On Screen Display of the current operating the automatic TV system switch-over may lead to colour information on or off. interferences. a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme number for the video recorder. number for the video recorder. b Press the MENU button.
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D If the menu does not disappear, the video recorder didn’t How to switch to 16:9 recognize the remote control command. Repeat stepg . You can only use this function, when the video recorder D After you changed the batteries in the remote control, it (socket AV1 EXT1 ) and the TV set are connected with a scart will switch back to ’VCR 1’. cable. D If you entered the wrong remote control command, the a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme message e.g.: ’VCR ONLY RESPONDS TO VCR
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d Select the line ’AUTO STANDBY’ with the menu buttons Poor TV reception - Optimize the modulator P= or P; . With ’Connecting without scart cable’, UHF-channel CH35or e Select ’ON’ with the menu buttons Q or P . If you se- 583MHz might already be being used by another TV station in lect ’OFF’, the function will be switched off. your reception area. In this case the picture quality on your TV set will be adversely affected when receiving one or more TV f Confirm with the OK button. channels. a En
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Audio only record D With the function ’Easy Link/NexTView’ the modulator will be switched off automatically. You can use your video recorder as a HiFi tape recorder. You a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the programme can record the sound from e.g. a HiFi unit or a second video number for the video recorder. recorder. b Please note that no cassette has been inserted. Press the a Use an audio cable to connect your HiFi (stereo) unit to STOP/EJECT? and the PLAYG button simultaneous- the
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Audio dubbing Selecting the sound track This function enables you to replace (dub) the sound track of You can select the required sound track. This is of particular an existing recording with another sound track. To do this, interest when the audio transmissions are multilingual. connect an audio source (e.g.: a CD-player) to the L-AUDIO-R (programme number ’E3’) socket. a Press the SELECT button. The current setting will appear on the TV screen. a Switch on the TV set. If required, select the p
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f Switch the camera recorder to ’still picture’ (playback- Variant 1, the video recorder is to control pause). the camera recorder g Confirm with the menu button P . The video recorder a Start copying with the RECORD/OTRn button on the video now controls the connected camera recorder type. recorder. The camera recorder starts ’PLAYBACK’ and at the same h The following message appears on the TV screen: time the video recorder starts ’RECORDING’. ’VCR CONTROL DETECTED’ when the video recorder b St
