Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site tellab3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!tellab1!tellab3!thoth 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 Article-I.D.: tellab3.272 Posted: Tue Jul 9 23:06:23 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 02:17:14 EDT References: <433@zinfandel.UUCP> <1346@hammer.UUCP> <174@tekcrl.UUCP> <334@varian.UUCP> Reply-To: thoth@tellab3.UUCP (Marcus Hall) Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL Lines: 16 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 ..!ihnp4!tellab1!tellab2!thoth