James wrote:

If anyone's familiar with this kind of functionality, how are you
supposed to record future events if you have to work this slider to
make the recording happen and essentially renter the VCR useless for
anything else in the meanwhile? The whole thing seems cotingent on
your remembering when you set the programs for.

Yes.

That's how it is designed, but there probably should be a button which lets
you see what you have programed.

Depeneding upon the model, it erased the program after it recorded it. Some
had a special program which would repeat everyday. This was to prevent you
from recording a program at the same time tomorrow if you only wanted the one
on tonight and vice versa.

It never really worked in the general public. VCR's were notorious for
flashing 12:00 meaning the clock had never been set.

Geoff.


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