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From: fred@varian.UUCP (Fred Klink)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: counters on VCRS
Message-ID: <334@varian.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 20:24:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  2 20:24:03 1985
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> >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!