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From: marks@tekigm.UUCP (Mark D. Salzman)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: counters in VCRs
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Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 11:23:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 11:23:49 1985
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>>      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.

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