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Installation and Safety Precautions 2
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Connecting 3
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The Remote Control 4-5
Inserting batteries into the remote control . . . . . 4
The two levels of the remote control . . . . . . . . . 4
At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5
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The User Guide 6
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Settings 7-11
Tuning the TV set to the recorder 7
Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Improving the picture quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Switching the recorder’s transmitter
off and on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Setting the time and date 8
Tuning TV stations 8-11
Transfer of data from the TV set
(Megalogic function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Tuning to TV stations with the
automatic tuning system
(ATS euro plus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Resorting TV stations –
with the Follow TV function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Resorting TV stations –
manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Entering data manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Deleting the data of a programme position . . . . 11
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The Cassette 12
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Playback 13-15
At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Additional playback functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Adjusting picture/sound quality . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Locating a certain recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Recording 16-17
At a glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Entering a stop time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Assembling recordings
with clean joints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Special features of sound recording . . . . . . . . . 17
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TIMER Recording 18-21
The options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Programming with the ShowView
system, variant 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Recorder messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Checking the occupied TIMER positions . . . . . 20
Altering the data of a TIMER position . . . . . . . . 20
Erasing an occupied TIMER position . . . . . . . . 20
Interrupting the record stand-by mode
of the recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Reactivating the record stand-by mode
of the recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Programming with the user guide
and manual data entry, variant 2 . . . . . . . . . . . 21
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Copying from a second recorder,
camcorder, CD-i player 22
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Insert-Splice Functions 23-24
Insert/Dubbing function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Insert/Video function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Insert/Copy function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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The recorder as a
hifi tape recorder 25-26
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Dubbing 27
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Operation with a Satellite Receiver 28
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Operation with a PAY-TV Decoder 29
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Special Functions 30-34
Recording – controlled from external devices . . . 30
Continuous playback mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The child lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Setting the function display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Operation with a 16:9 format TV set . . . . . . . . . 32
Remote control of other GRUNDIG video
recorders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Selecting the language for the user guide . . . . . 34
Remote control of the TV set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Useful Information 35-37
Fixing faults yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Technical data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Overview of code numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
GRUNDIG Service Germany/Europe . . . . . . . . . 37
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