Manual

Make sure you select good qualily tapes for your camcorder. Use of poor quality tapes
or tapes that have been damaged or mishandled can contaminate the video heads,
resulting in a snowy picture or no picture at all during playback, Because lhere is no
control over the type of tape purchased or rented by consumers, head cleaning is not
covered under warranty, It is considered normal maintenance.
Erase Protection - Safety Tab
You can use your videocassettes over and over again. To erase a previous recording,
just record over it,
Safety
Tab
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A. Remove B. Cover hole
safety tab or with vinyl tape or
slide tab to slide tab to REC ON to
REC OFF. record over tape.
Recording and Playback Speeds and Times
The camcorder records and plays back in standard speed (SP) or extended play
(SLP), Select the recording speed by pressing and holding the SP/SLP button.
The selected speed is displayed in the viewfinder. Listed below are lhe
maxinmm SP and SLP recording times for popular VHS-C cassetles,
• SP Standard play provides the
best picture (less picture noise),
but the shortest recording time
(20 minules with a TC-20 tape).
• SLP Exlended play provides
lhree times the recording time as
SP (60 minules with a TC-20 tape).
SLP has slighily more picture
noise than SP in normal playback,
This might not be noticeable.
Recording Time
Cassette SP SLP
TC-20 20 Min. 60 Min.
TC-30 30 Min. 90 Min.
TC-40 40 Min. 120 Min.
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