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From: brent@cadovax.UUCP (Brent Rector)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: counters in VCRs
Message-ID: <702@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 20:36:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 20:36:51 1985
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In article <495@tekigm.UUCP> marks@tekigm.UUCP (Mark D. Salzman) writes:
>
>I thought that putting a cueing mark on the tape was a fairly common feature
>on the better VCRs. (Maybe I was just hopeing?) My JVC VHS unit has this
>feature also and I find it so much more friendly that I almost never use
>the tape counter.
>
>I do admit that a "time remaining" counter would be very nice (other than
>the 10 and 5 minute warnings my deck also has). I would like to know of
>other VCRs (particularly VHS) that have this cueing feature and if there
>is a standard for it. I would also like to know what other features these
>decks have since mine is getting old and I may want to replace it soon.
>

Well I have a Panasonic VHS Hi-Fi VCR (PV-9600 I believe) and it has a
remaining time on tape counter which displays remaining time in HH:MM form.
It takes it about 30 seconds to figure out where it is on the tape.

It also has a tape counter as well but I couldn't say whether it is linear
or not since I always use the remaining time display instead.

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