Special Features - Philips VR685 User Manual

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SPECIAL FEATURES

Tuner mode
You can also use your video recorder as a TV receiver (tuner).
1
Hold the STOP h button, until
2
Select the required programme number with the
button or with the
P q
3
Switch the video recorder to standby by pressing the
STANDBY m button when you no longer want to watch
television.
Sound track selection
You can select the required sound track during tuner-mode,
stop or playback. This is of particular interest when the audio
transmissions are multilingual.
1
Press the button. The current setting will appear
SELECT
in the display.
2
By pressing the
SELECT
select from the four possibilities displayed ('STEREO',
'RIGHT', 'LEFT', 'MONO').
Note: During playback you can select a fifth possibility: the
'MIXED' mode. In this mode you can playback the mono
sound of the normal (linear) audio track together with the
sound of the stereo audio track. This can be used for
playing back a recording dubbed on another video recorder.
* If there is no stereo sound recorded on the cassette, the
video recorder automatically switches over to mono sound.
appears in the display.
P r
buttons.
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button several times you can
Externally controlled recording
Do you have another device, e.g. a satellite receiver, which
can control other equipment by a 'programming' function? You
can connect this device to the video recorder with a scart
cable, at socket
EXT.2
or
1
Insert a cassette. Switch to standby with the
button.
2
Hold the
MONITOR
display.
3
If you want to interrupt this function before the recording
has actually started, hold the
'REC.P' disappears from the video recorder display.
4
If you want to interrupt this function while a recording is
being made, press the
Remote control of TV sets
Your remote control can operate with a number of remote
control codes for TV sets of different makes. Using the
appropriate code number and the TV button set, you can
activate the following functions:
Sq
Sr
TV y
TV m
TV q
TV r
1
Hold down the
TV m
remote control code with the digit buttons
You will find a list of all available remote control codes on
the last page of this manual.
Note: If the selected code does not operate with your TV
set, or if the TV make is not contained in the list, you can try
out the codes one after the other.
.
STANDBY m
button until 'REC.P' appears in the
button until
MONITOR
button.
STANDBY m
TV volume plus
TV volume minus
Switch off sound
Switch off
Up/Plus, programme number
Down/Minus, programme number
button and enter the appropriate
.
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