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 hammer.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!orca!hammer!seifert 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 Lines: 30 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