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Chapter 7 : Additional VCR Features
Index Search (VISS)
Your TV/VCR Combination is equipped with the VHS Index Search System, or VISS. The
VISS allows “index marks” to be placed on a video tape. These marks are similar to bookmarks
- you can use the search system to quickly find these marks, and thereby find a point on the tape
quickly.
Your TV/VCR Combination automatically places an index mark on the tape every time it
begins a recording session. Therefore, if you record six programs at six different times on a
tape, there will be six index marks on the tape.
To search for an index mark:
1. Place a tape with index marks in your TV/VCR Combination.
2. If the index mark is ahead on the tape, press the VISS+ button; if the index mark is behind
on the tape, press VISS- button. The tape will fast forward or rewind (without picture) until
it finds the index mark. Then, it will begin playing.
3. You can search further than the next index mark. For example, if you know that the show
you want is three index marks behind, you can press the VISS- button three times. The
TV/VCR Combination will search for the third index mark, then begin playing.
VCRs and TV/VCRs from other manufacturers sometimes use the same VISS system.
Therefore, you may be able to search for index marks on tapes that were recorded on other
VCRs.
Your TV/VCR Combination cannot detect index marks unless they are least at one minute
apart on the tape.
