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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: counters on VCRS
Message-ID: <1369@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 23:28:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: hammer.1369
Posted: Mon Jul  8 23:28:20 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jul-85 04:38:04 EDT
References: <433@zinfandel.UUCP> <1346@hammer.UUCP> <174@tekcrl.UUCP> <334@varian.UUCP>
Reply-To: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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Summary: Beta > VHS

In article <334@varian.UUCP> fred@varian.UUCP (Fred Klink) writes:
>> >That's what happens when the tape counter runs off the spool drive.
>> >As the tape runs, the diameter of the spool of tape changes, and
>> >the spool rpms change.  *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*.  I doubt
>> >if any VHS machines do this, since the tape has to come off the
>> >head for fast-wind, and you couldn't pick up the timing signals.
>> 
>>      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!

Hate to break this to you, but the SL-2700 has indexes IN ADDITION TO
the correct counter.  Naaah  Naaah!

Note to whoever it was that was bragging about VHS having a readout
with 5 minute resolution: get serious, eh? 5 minutes? That belongs in
net.jokes.

Okay, just to be fair, there *is* a feature that the 2700 lacks.
It doesn't run UNIX.  (Of course it's rather doubtful that any
VHS models do either!)

Snoopy
tektronix!hammer!seifert