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“COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® is a registered trademark of TeleVentions, LLC. COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® is a Jerry Iggulden invention licensed in association with TeleVentions, LLC.”
About COMMERCIAL ADVANCE®
COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® is a feature in video recorders that automatically skips or scans most com- mercial messages during replay of a recorded televi- sion broadcast.
Under controlled test conditions with major network daytime and prime time broadcasts, almost all intra- program commercials are eliminated. Actual results may vary and will depend upon the quality of television reception and the nature of the program recorded. This feature records entire broadcasts including com- mercials. When these recordings are played back, the portions of the recording previously identified as con- taining commercials can be automatically skipped or scanned. Initiation of skipping or scanning can be per- formed either automatically by this product or manually by the viewer.
Notes:
This function will not operate normally in the following cases:
•COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® is designed to not iden- tify commercials within recordings which are less than 15 minutes.
•When the signal input to the antenna for the recorder is weak, and thus noise appears.
Setting COMMERCIAL ADVANCE®
The COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® options have been set to ON at the factory. When you first unpack this recorder, COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® feature is avail- able to use by manufacture. However, you may wish to alter the factory COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® settings. There are two selections in OSD menu: CA RECORD and CA PLAYBACK.
Setting CA RECORD
This setting enables or disables the commercial group detection and memorization process while recording.
1.Press SETUP.
2.Use v / V to choose CA RECORD, and then press
B.
Playback
Notes:
•You can set CA PLAYBACK to OFF, SCAN or SKIP.
•COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® feature operates only when broadcasts received by this recorder are recorded on its HDD.
•From the limitation of this recorder, you cannot use COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® feature when broad- casts are recorded from the external input.
Commercials that can be skipped or scanned by COMMERCIAL ADVANCE®:
COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® detects the portion of mul- tiple commercials that last 55 seconds or longer as a commercial portion, and skips it.
You can use COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® only with programs recorded with CA RECORD set to “ON”: Make sure before recording that CA RECORD is set to “ON”.
<Example where COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® can skip or scan commercials>
•Multiple commercials that collectively continue for 55 seconds or longer
<Example where COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® does not skip or scan commercials>
•Only one commercial
•Any commercial group less than 55 seconds in duration
3.Use v / V to choose the desired option, and then press ENTER.
•[OFF]: COMMERCIAL ADVANCE® does not operate.
•[ON]: Activates COMMERCIAL ADVANCE®.
Commercials do not erase by setting this option to
ON.
This setting does not affect previously recorded broad- casts.This setting only tells the recorder whether or not to identify and memorize commercial groups on new recordings.
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