SONY STRDE185
Owner's Manual

Recording on a video tape
You can record from a VCR, a TV, or an LD player using the receiver. You can also add audio from a variety of audio sources when editing a video tape. See the operating instructions of your VCR or LD player if you need help.

Using the Sleep Timer
You can set the receiver to turn off automatically at a specified time.
Press SLEEP on the front panel (except for models of area code CEL, CEK) or on the remote while the power is on.

1 Select the program source to be
recorded.

Each time you press the button, the display changes cyclically as follows:

Other Operations

2 Prepare the component for playing.
For example, insert the laser disc you want to record into the LD player.

3 Insert a blank video tape into the VCR
(VIDEO 1) for recording.

2 � 00 � 00 t 1 � 30 � 00 t 1 � 00 � 00 t 0 � 30 � 00 t OFF The display dims after you have specified the time.
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4 Start recording on the recording VCR,
then start playing the video tape or laser disc you want to record.
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To check the remaining time before the receiver turns off, press SLEEP. The remaining time appears in the display.

You can record the sound from any audio source onto a video tape while copying from a video tape or laser disc. Locate the point where you want to start recording from another audio source, select the program source, then start playback. The audio from that source will be recorded onto the audio track of the video tape instead of the audio from the original medium. To resume audio recording from the original medium, select the video source again.

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