SKIPPING COMMERCIALS
Your VCR’s Commercial Advance™ feature lets you quickly skip over commercials record- ed onto a tape while you view it, without having to continually press
During recording, Commercial Advance stores in memory the locations of the beginnings and end- ings of commercials. After recording is over, the VCR replays the tape and marks the beginnings/ endings on the tape itself.
Then, when you play back the recording, you can set the VCR so it detects and skips over the marked commercials automatically or only when you press a key.
Notes:
•The recording must be at least 15 minutes long for Commercial Advance to work.
•The effectiveness of Commercial Advance varies with the different methods stations use to broadcast commercials. It is possi- ble that Commercial Advance might not work with every broadcast you watch.
•Commercial Advance might skip part of a program if there are frequent dark and quiet scenes.
•Commercial Advance does not erase com- mercials from the tape; it simply marks them.
Turning Commercial Advance Marking On/Off
Follow these steps to have the VCR automati- cally memorize the beginnings and endings of commercials while it records a program, so it can mark the tape later.
1.Press MENU/ACTION to display the main menu.
2.Repeatedly press 
or 
to highlight
SET UP FEATURE, then press 
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3.If necessary, repeatedly press 
or 
to highlight SET UP COMMERCIAL ADV.
TURE
OFF
CI AL ADV.
KEY
4. Press 
. You see:
SET UP COMMERCI AL ADV.
C / A RECORD |
| : ON | ||
C / A PLAYBACK |
| : AUTO | ||
SELECT : |
| KEY |
| |
SET | : | KEY |
| |
END | :ACT I ON | KEY | ||
5.If necessary, repeatedly press 
or 
to highlight C/A RECORD, then press 
to select ON or OFF.
6.When you finish, press MENU/ACTION twice.
If you selected ON, the VCR asks if you want it to mark commercials when you stop recording or turn the VCR off.
•If you want the VCR to mark commercials when you stop recording, press 1.
•If you want the VCR to mark commercials when you turn it off, press 2.
Notes:
•It takes several minutes for the VCR to mark the recording.
•The VCR marks commercials in a timer recording after the recording stops (see “Automatic Timer Recording” on Page 43).
•If the interval between two timer recordings is not long enough to allow commercial marking, the VCR waits until after the next timer recording.