Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekigm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decvax!tektronix!tekigm!marks From: marks@tekigm.UUCP (Mark D. Salzman) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: counters in VCRs Message-ID: <495@tekigm.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 11:23:49 EDT Article-I.D.: tekigm.495 Posted: Mon Jul 8 11:23:49 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:10:17 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 29 >> 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! 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. Thanks. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Salzman, Tektronix Inc. | The more complex the mind, P.O. Box 3500, Mail Stop C1-465 | the greater the need for Vancouver, Washington. 98668 | the simplicity of play. Phone (206) 253-5542. | {world}!tektronix!tekigm!marks | James T. Kirk ------------------------------------------------------------