AUTOMATIC PICTURE STOP

(Noted as PS in the LD index for Video Essentials. There are also automatic picture stops in A Video Standard.) The laserdisc player will automatically take the program from the play mode to a still frame mode according to information programmed in the vertical interval of the disc's video. The Pioneer VP-1000 consumer videodisc player requires the frame display to be on before the automatic picture stop function can be activated. Early VP-1000's required the "Play" button and some other control button, including "Play", to be pressed prior to activating the frame display before the Auto-Picture Stop function would work. (Press "PLAY" twice then the Frame Display. The disc would then stop at all Auto-Stop codes as long as the Frame display remained on.)