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Or we could just ban jeebus and make life easier.
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I tried.
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On the politics thread there was talk of how the old VCRs blinked 12:00.
I feel young; ours never did that.
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Late 90’s models onwards had auto clock set. One channel in most cities, (usually a PBS station) had a subcarrier signal the VCR clock would use to set itself. You were still on your own setting it up to record something unattended.
The last regular VHS deck my parents used had this feature, but I could never get it to work according to the manual. But if you left it off, it would magically set itself. I never could catch it in the act either. Tempted to plug it in again one of these days and see if it will still set the clock. The cable system here still has a few analog channels, downconverted from digital of course.
Curiously, my DVD recorder has no such feature, but setting the clock is fairly simple compared to the arcane sequence of buttons our first family VCR in 1984 required. 😉
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SilverWook said:
Curiously, my DVD recorder has no such feature, but setting the clock is fairly simple compared to the arcane sequence of buttons our first family VCR in 1984 required. 😉
Was your first family VCR like this? This was a beast, and took up a lot of room.
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Both my DVD Recorder and my Panasonic AG-1980 are blinking 12:00 as I type, lol. I would think something was wrong if they weren’t blinking.
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Late 90’s models onwards had auto clock set. One channel in most cities, (usually a PBS station) had a subcarrier signal the VCR clock would use to set itself. You were still on your own setting it up to record something unattended.
The last regular VHS deck my parents used had this feature, but I could never get it to work according to the manual. But if you left it off, it would magically set itself. I never could catch it in the act either. Tempted to plug it in again one of these days and see if it will still set the clock. The cable system here still has a few analog channels, downconverted from digital of course.
Curiously, my DVD recorder has no such feature, but setting the clock is fairly simple compared to the arcane sequence of buttons our first family VCR in 1984 required. 😉
In our case it was more we never left it on when not in use, and when it’s off (assuming it was plugged in) it would instead display a
–:-- I’m not sure if it even had a clock when it was on.
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Updated my phone for the first time (I got it over 2 yrs ago I think) and man, this is going to take some getting used to.
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Both my DVD Recorder and my Panasonic AG-1980 are blinking 12:00 as I type, lol. I would think something was wrong if they weren’t blinking.
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Not much point since the tuner is useless these days. I keep the DVD recorder clock up to date as it timestamps when I actually did a transfer. It certainly helped pinning down a batch of discs from 8 years ago that are going bad now as they were all recorded in the same month.
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SilverWook said:
Curiously, my DVD recorder has no such feature, but setting the clock is fairly simple compared to the arcane sequence of buttons our first family VCR in 1984 required. 😉Was your first family VCR like this? This was a beast, and took up a lot of room.
I always liked the buttons on that. Damned if I can find a picture of the actual model but it was cosmetically close to this one.
Ours didn’t have the tacky fake wood paneling, and the tuner was all digital, and allegedly “cable ready”, a much abused term often used to make unwary consumers think their VCR could unscramble pay channels. Our was one of the first linear stereo models, with Dolby NR, which I thought sounded pretty good through the cheap little Radio Shack amplifier and speakers I added later. Over the air stereo tv broadcasting wasn’t quite a thing yet, but you could hook it up to a stereo system, and record an FM simulcast of certain movies and concerts.
I sort of want the one HD DVD player Toshiba made for RCA, because it reminds me of the old family VCR.
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We had a Beta machine first in our house. I miss that clunker.
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I always liked the buttons on that. Damned if I can find a picture of the actual model but it was cosmetically close to this one.
Nice, pretty high tech, for a consumer vcr. My JVC vcr with the colourful buttons came with a remote, that had to be plugged in. Also, the auto-record timer feature had to be set with “gear dials” underneath a covered panel next to the tape deck.
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We had a Beta machine first in our house. I miss that clunker.
Beta was higher quality over VHS. Sony got their revenge, with their Blu-Ray format.
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IIRC, there was a VCR in the late 80’s/early 90’s that revisited the dials idea to make digital programming and clock setting easier. Can’t recall who made it though.
Sony also made VHS decks in the end. A dark day in the view of die hard Beta fans. Beta’s industrial broadcast cousin Betacam became an industry standard though.
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IIRC, there was a VCR in the late 80’s/early 90’s that revisited the dials idea to make digital programming and clock setting easier. Can’t recall who made it though.
I seem to remember the programming was a little tricky, that’s why I asked my dad to setup the times for my shows. Though, setting the clock was easy, since you had buttons underneath the LED screen.
Sony also made VHS decks in the end. A dark day in the view of die hard Beta fans. Beta’s industrial broadcast cousin Betacam became an industry standard though.
Well, Sony had to eventually comply, so they can make some extra scratch. That’s true, Betacam did become an industry standard. I also remember SVHS, which I think tried to duplicate what Betacam was.
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I used S-VHS extensively back in college. It beat the pants off of U-Matic. More than a few forum members have at least one S-VHS deck around for videotape preservations.
S-VHS straddled the world between consumers who wanted better video quality for their home video projects, and low end broadcast. The broadcast end competed mostly with Sony’s venerable U-matic format, which was the backbone of many a small cable company or college. One low power tv station near me, (now long gone) was new enough in the early 90’s, they were S-VHS from the ground up. I rented their editing suite once.
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I wonder what would happen if someone attached one of these kinds of machine things to his or her head?
Asking for a friend.
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I used S-VHS extensively back in college. It beat the pants off of U-Matic. More than a few forum members have at least one S-VHS deck around for videotape preservations.
S-VHS straddled the world between consumers who wanted better video quality for their home video projects, and low end broadcast. The broadcast end competed mostly with Sony’s venerable U-matic format, which was the backbone of many a small cable company or college. One low power tv station near me, (now long gone) was new enough in the early 90’s, they were S-VHS from the ground up. I rented their editing suite once.
So, S-VHS was an alternative to the more professional, expensive broadcast standard of Betacam. I would like to have an S-VHS deck, to help perserve some of my home videos. I remember my highschool had an S-VHS deck, which was used to make copies of some student’s small film projects.
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I’m currently in 3rd for our March Madness bracket at work. I didn’t even realize what the numbers in parenthesis were when I started picking teams.
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I’m currently in 3rd for our March Madness bracket at work. I didn’t even realize what the numbers in parenthesis were when I started picking teams.
[Dies a little inside]
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My understanding is that March Madness is college sports?
It’s interesting that the US has such a devotion to them. I can’t think of anyone in Canada that really cared about college sports unless they either have a relative in that team, or maybe because they lived in a community with a relevant team.
Maybe it’s just my circle of friends. I know my local Pharmacy has a betting pool for Survivor of all things.
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I’m currently in 3rd for our March Madness bracket at work. I didn’t even realize what the numbers in parenthesis were when I started picking teams.
[Dies a little inside]
You should hear my coworkers. They think I’m some sort of idiot savant.
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Probably because in America college athletes have almost the level of talent as pro sports, but with the added benefit of having passion and giving a shit about the game more than money. Pro sports in America are a snoozfest compared to college in my opinion. With basketball anyway.