HS-MD3000E VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER INSTALLATION AND OPERATION MANUAL MODEL

Controls and Functions

Front View

EJECT

REW STOP PLAY FF REC PAUSE

JOG/ADJUST

REV

SHUTTLE

FWD

POWER

MONITOR

CH1

MIX

CH2

HiFi

MIX

NORMAL

AUDIO KEY LOCK

PART

OFF

ALL

COUNTER

RESET

MIC

SEARCH

FRAME/

FIELD MENU AUDIO DUB

CLEAR ENTER

TRACKING

– +

PROGRAM A

MARK IN

B

EJECT button

Press to remove the cassette.

Cassette Loading Slot

Cassette is inserted in this slot for loading.

REW button

Press to rewind the tape.

STOP button

Press to stop all tape related functions. When pressing while the tape is stopped or the tape is not loaded, the Counter display on the fluorescent display will be changed to the clock. The

Counter display will automatically reappear after 5 seconds.

PLAY button

When the VCR is in stop mode, press to playback a previously recorded tape.

FF button

Press to forward the tape.

REC button

Press this button and PLAY button at the same time to begin recording. During playback, press to monitor the signal from

S-VIDEO/VIDEO IN and AUDIO IN L/R connector.

PAUSE button

During recording, press to stop the tape movement temporarily.

Press again to continue the recording.

During playback, press to obtain a still picture.

Fluorescent Display

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POWER button

Press to turn the VCR POWER on or off.

Note

• When turning the VCR off during the tape is in operation

(fast forwarding, rewinding, playing or recording, etc.), press

STOP first to stop the tape and then press POWER to turn off.

Symbol " ": on (power connection to the mains)

Symbol " ": off (power disconnection from the mains)

AUDIO switch

Use to select the audio signal output from the AUDIO OUT

CH-1/L and CH-2/R terminals on the rear panel.

AUDIO switch setting connector

Hi-Fi

MIX

NORMAL

AUDIO OUT (CH-1/L)

Hi-Fi audio CH-1

Both Hi-Fi audio CH-1 and normal audio normal audio

AUDIO OUT (CH-2/R)

Hi-Fi audio CH-2

Both Hi-Fi audio CH-2 and normal audio normal audio

MONITOR switch

Use to select the audio signal output from the MONITOR connector on the rear panel.

CH-1 : use to select audio signal from AUDIO OUT CH-1/L.

MIX : use to select audio signal from both AUDIO OUT CH-1/

L and CH-2/R.

CH-2 : use to select audio signal from AUDIO OUT CH-2/R.

KEY LOCK switch

Use to lock the VCR into the current mode.

PART : use to lock all buttons except STOP button, REC+PLAY button, EJECT button, PAUSE button and POWER button. “ ” illuminates on the fluorescent display.

OFF : use to release the lock.

ALL : use to lock all buttons except POWER button. “ ” illuminates on the fluorescent display.

COUNTER RESET button

Press to reset the counter to “0:00:00”. Also, use to erase the points memorized by MARK IN A/B buttons.

Note

• Press the button for about 2 seconds.

MIC IN jack

Input jack for a microphone. The audio signal from a microphone is recorded to the normal audio channel.

MIC level indicator

During recording, illuminates according to the sound level.

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Supplementary information

SEARCH/CLEAR button

Press to display the <SEARCH FUNCTION> menu.

When setting the current time on MENU 3, use to select the setting item in the upward direction.

TRACKING buttons

Press to reduce/eliminate the noise during playback.

FRAME/FIELD/ENTER button

During playback, still picture or playback using the shuttle ring, press to display the freeze frame picture.

During freeze frame picture, press to switch the picture in the following order. When FREEZE MODE in MENU 2 is set to

FRAME, the freeze frame picture is switched in the order of frame still the first field the second field frame still

... When FREEZE MODE in MENU 2 is set to FIELD, the freeze frame picture is switched in the order of the first field the second field frame still the first field ...

Also, use to set the menus.

PROGRAM button

Press to set the programmed playback.

MENU button

When the VCR is turned on, press to display or exit the menus.

Note

• Press the button for about 2 seconds.

MARK IN A/B buttons

Press to memorize the current counter.

AUDIO DUB button

Use for audio dubbing. During still picture, press to pause audio dubbing. Press PAUSE button to resume audio dubbing.

Press this button and PLAY button at the same time to start audio dubbing from stop mode.

JOG dial

Use to forward or reverse a tape field-by-field.

Also use to set the menus.

SHUTTLE ring

Use for special effects playback.

Reference page

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