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Sombody gave us an old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but
there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron |
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![]() "Ron" wrote in message ... Sombody gave us an old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... ? Arfa |
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On Mar 24, 7:18*pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"Ron" wrote in message ... Sombody gave us an *old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... * ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... :-) Ron |
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![]() "Ron" wrote in message ... On Mar 24, 7:18 pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote: "Ron" wrote in message ... Sombody gave us an old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... :-) Ron Well ... Yes ... But a hard disk is cheaper still ! And it only sorta works with not being able to select low speed, and doesn't have the proper remote ! Arfa |
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On Mar 25, 12:25*am, Ron wrote:
On Mar 24, 7:18*pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote: "Ron" wrote in message .... Sombody gave us an *old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... * ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... * :-) Ron Hear, hear! It works. Why throw it away?! Plus, for me, I have a catalog of films, over 1,000 titles on tape. Just a caution: EP has such a problem tracking that next year you may not be able to view a tape recorded at that speed, even on the same machine. |
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On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:36:06 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote:
Sombody gave us an old TV/VCR made by RCA "Grandpa!! Oh Grandpa!! Mommy doesn't know. She said to ask you. What's a VCR?" |
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Ron wrote:
I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Would of been handy if you gave the model, but I don't think RCA made any of these units, probably a rebadged Funai or worse. Just taking a guess, a lot of those combo sets used a menu to set the recording speed, not a button. So if it has onscreen menus and arrow keys on the remote, try those arrows (left/right mostly) to see if it switches to another one for the vcr settings. At some point in time they decided record speed was a set-once feature. Toshiba made some with a dedicated sp/ep button on the remote, so it's entirely possible but without a model number, only guesses. -bruce |
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Bruce Esquibel wrote in message
... Ron wrote: I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Would of been handy if you gave the model, but I don't think RCA made any of these units, probably a rebadged Funai or worse. Just taking a guess, a lot of those combo sets used a menu to set the recording speed, not a button. So if it has onscreen menus and arrow keys on the remote, try those arrows (left/right mostly) to see if it switches to another one for the vcr settings. At some point in time they decided record speed was a set-once feature. Toshiba made some with a dedicated sp/ep button on the remote, so it's entirely possible but without a model number, only guesses. -bruce Another possibility is extra button pads/traces/overlays on the front panel pcb , unused on your model, that may be active if jumpered |
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On Mar 25, 7:03*am, Bruce Esquibel wrote:
Ron wrote: I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Would of been handy if you gave the model, but I don't think RCA made any of these units, probably a rebadged Funai or worse. Yep, but I got the thing "as is" and if there's a model number anywhere, it's buried on the back of a 50 lb unit... Just taking a guess, a lot of those combo sets used a menu to set the recording speed, not a button. So if it has onscreen menus and arrow keys on the remote, try those arrows (left/right mostly) to see if it switches to another one for the vcr settings. At some point in time they decided record speed was a set-once feature. Ahhh, here's the problem: according to the menu to change the tape speed, one needs only to press the *clear* button... but there is NO "clear" button, nor does any button pushed act as/like a "clear" button. Oy! Ron Toshiba made some with a dedicated sp/ep button on the remote, so it's entirely possible but without a model number, only guesses. -bruce |
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:25:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron
wrote: On Mar 24, 7:18*pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote: "Ron" wrote in message ... Sombody gave us an *old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... * ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... :-) Ron Since tapes are cheap, why the obsession with reducing the picture quality to use fewer tapes? I have to agree with Mr. Daley on this - DVRs are inexpensive and produce much better results. PlainBill |
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On Mar 25, 3:13*pm, wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:25:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: On Mar 24, 7:18*pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote: "Ron" wrote in message .... Sombody gave us an *old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... * ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... * :-) Ron Since tapes are cheap, why the obsession with reducing the picture quality to use fewer tapes? *I have to agree with Mr. Daley on this - DVRs are inexpensive and produce much better results. PlainBill- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No obsession but if there's a 2-1/2 hour movie on like say, Lean on Me, but the tape will record only 2 hours, obviously I am gonna miss the last half hour of my movie on SP. Six hours is always better than two any day! Ron |
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... On Mar 25, 3:13 pm, wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:25:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: On Mar 24, 7:18 pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote: "Ron" wrote in message ... Sombody gave us an old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... :-) Ron Since tapes are cheap, why the obsession with reducing the picture quality to use fewer tapes? I have to agree with Mr. Daley on this - DVRs are inexpensive and produce much better results. PlainBill- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No obsession but if there's a 2-1/2 hour movie on like say, Lean on Me, but the tape will record only 2 hours, obviously I am gonna miss the last half hour of my movie on SP. Six hours is always better than two any day! Ron +++++ Why the aversion to 4 hour tapes? Sellers at car-boot/radio rallies almost give them away. |
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On Mar 26, 12:18*am, "N_Cook" wrote:
Ron wrote in message ... On Mar 25, 3:13 pm, wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:25:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: On Mar 24, 7:18 pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote: "Ron" wrote in message .... Sombody gave us an old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... :-) Ron Since tapes are cheap, why the obsession with reducing the picture quality to use fewer tapes? I have to agree with Mr. Daley on this - DVRs are inexpensive and produce much better results. PlainBill- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No obsession but if there's a 2-1/2 hour movie on like say, Lean on Me, but the tape will record only 2 hours, obviously I am gonna miss the last half hour of my movie on SP. Six hours is always better than two any day! Ron +++++ Why the aversion to 4 hour tapes? Sellers at car-boot/radio rallies almost give them away.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You don't use VCRs do you? It's not a matter of the tapes themselves, but of changing the VCR's recording speed from SP that is [still] the problem. Ron |
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Ron wrote in message
... On Mar 26, 12:18 am, "N_Cook" wrote: Ron wrote in message ... On Mar 25, 3:13 pm, wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:25:26 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: On Mar 24, 7:18 pm, "Arfa Daily" wrote: "Ron" wrote in message ... Sombody gave us an old TV/VCR made by RCA that works pretty wel but there is no particular button or switch to set the VCR for anything but SP recording. Okay for a decent picture but that stting eats up tape far too fast. We also got a remote control-- also suppossedly RCA made-- but I don;t think was made for this combo as it doesn't have an EP button either, so when trying to set the thing for timed taping, there's no way to set for EP even though the screen offers the choice of SP or EP. I trid to find a remote with the elusive EP button but no joy on any of them. Does anyone know how I can change the tape speed on this old clunker? Ron Old clunker indeed ! If it's not a silly question Ron, why on earth would you want to keep using this outdated technology, when hard disk recorders capable of more than 100 hours continuous recording at full broadcast quality, are available for next to nothing now ... ? Arfa- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Somebody gave it to me free, it works, and tapes are cheap... :-) Ron Since tapes are cheap, why the obsession with reducing the picture quality to use fewer tapes? I have to agree with Mr. Daley on this - DVRs are inexpensive and produce much better results. PlainBill- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - No obsession but if there's a 2-1/2 hour movie on like say, Lean on Me, but the tape will record only 2 hours, obviously I am gonna miss the last half hour of my movie on SP. Six hours is always better than two any day! Ron +++++ Why the aversion to 4 hour tapes? Sellers at car-boot/radio rallies almost give them away.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You don't use VCRs do you? It's not a matter of the tapes themselves, but of changing the VCR's recording speed from SP that is [still] the problem. Ron ++++ I certainly do use VCRs as I cannot watch these new fangled flat TVs for more than a few minutes because of cross-screen movement/ update judder . So good old CRT especially with my local UHF transmitter has just gone digital only. VCRs mean I can hook up 2 VCR (and 2 STB) to a single-scart TV, via the modulators . Leaving the scart for a PVR that tends to only get used for transfering MD audio to DVD rather than timeshifted video/DVD Flat screen pc monitor is fine as used for text and static graphics only |
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