Before you call an engineer
If, contrary to expectation, you experience any difficulty in
operating this video recorder, it may be caused by one of the
reasons mentioned below. You can also call the
customer
service
in your country.
You will find the telephone numbers in the enclosed guarantee
leaflet.
The set does not respond to any button being pressed:
•
No power supply.
•
A programmed recording is currently being made.
•
Child lock is active.
•
Technical disturbance: disconnect from the mains for 30 sec-
onds, then re-connect. If this does not have any effect, you can:
1. Disconnect from mains.
2. Re-connect to mains
whilst holding down
the
STANDBY
m
button on the video recorder until the message disappears from
the display. All stored data will be reset (cleared).
Cassette jammed:
•
Don’t use force. Pull out the mains plug for a moment.
Remote control does not operate:
•
Remote control not pointed toward the video recorder.
•
Batteries are exhausted. Change batteries.
•
Remote control command wrong. Read the paragraph ’Switching
remote control command’ in chapter ’ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS’.
No playback from video recorder:
•
No recording on the cassette: Change cassette.
•
The VCR programme number on the TV set was incorrectly
selected or incorrectly set: On the TV set, select the correct
programme number.
•
The connecting cable between the TV set and the video recorder
has come loose: Check cable.
Poor playback from video recorder:
•
TV set not properly adjusted.
•
Cassette badly worn or of poor quality: Use new cassette.
•
Tracking not properly adjusted, video heads dirty: Turn to chapter
’PLAYBACK’ and read the section ’Eliminating picture interfer-
ence’.
No recording possible:
•
TV channel not stored or wrongly selected: Check TV pro-
grammes stored.
•
Cassette with erase protection has been loaded: Undo erase
protection.
Programmed recording does not function:
•
TIMER not set properly: Check TIMER blocks.
•
Time/date wrongly programmed: Check time/date.
•
A cassette with erase protection has been loaded: Undo erase
protection.
•
’PDC’ or ’VPS’ switched on but ’PDC/VPS time’ wrong: Enter
PDC/VPS time exactly to the minute. Check aerial.
Picture or sound interference on TV reception e.g. when
tuned to ’CH5’:
•
Turn to Chapter 5 ’ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS’ and read in the
sections ’Poor TV reception - Optimize the modulator’ and
’Switching off the modulator’.
•
Have your aerial checked.
Enter the serial number of your appliance here:
MODEL NO./TYPE
VR800/07
PROD.NO.:/SER.NR. . . . . .
This product complies with the requirements of the Directive
73/23/EEC + 89/336/EEC + 93/68/EEC.
Interference
The Department of Trade and Industry operates a Radio
Investigation Service to help TV licence holders improve
reception of BBC and ITC programmes where these are being
spoilt by interference.
If your dealer cannot help, ask at a Main Post Office for the
booklet ’How to Improve Television and Radio Reception’.
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