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From: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: counters on VCRS
Message-ID: <272@tellab3.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 23:06:23 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 23:06:23 1985
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Reply-To: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL
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Summary: 

>> >*Real* VCRs, like the Sony SL-2700, run
>> >the tape counter off the signals recorded on the tape.  The tape
>> >counter reads in hours/minutes/seconds, and is *correct*.
>> 
>>      Yep, that's the only way to do it, using the timing signals on the
>> tape. My NEC Beta Hi-Fi also has a REAL TIME COUNTER. Kinda handy to mark
>> time indexes on the tape to say where something starts/stops.
>
>Really real VCR's like my Fisher VHS mark program start for you (what
>Fisher calls Automatic Program Search), so you just load the tape and 
>FF to the program you segment you want. So there!

Real VCRs like the Sony SL-2700 do both!

marcus hall
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