Understanding timer program recording on old Sears VCR

James · 2008-10-26T03:19:53+00:00

I've got this Sears VCR, probably 80's vintage that has a timerprogram function. You set the program via the onscreen display, up to4 programs. However, to activate it, you push a slider that puts theVCR into a dormant mode until the appointed time.If anyone's familiar with this kind of functionality, how are yousupposed to record future events if you have to work this slider tomake the recording happen and essentially renter the VCR useless foranything else in the meanwhile? The whole thing seems cotingent onyour remembering when you set the programs for.Thanks for all insight.

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Sjouke Burry 17 years ago

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The chip can but the progammer has no clue what a chip does.

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UCLAN 17 years ago

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And you know it isn't responding...how? Giving you the channel/video signal you desired is only the end result of its response.

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Peter Hucker 17 years ago

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I would have thought it would be difficult to accidentally make something run exceedingly slowly.

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Peter Hucker 17 years ago

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What I mean is while navigating menus etc, if you press a key, then press another key 0.5 seconds later, the second key has no effect as it was still busy interpreting the first key.

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