Notes:
•It takes several minutes to mark the recording. If the interval between two timer recordings is not long enough to allow commercial marking, the VCR waits until after the next timer recording.
•The VCR can store up to eight timer recording times or 40 commercial locations in memory at one time. When the memory becomes full, the remaining commercials are not marked.
•The commercial advance feature turns off if there is a power failure.
•If you rewind the tape and start another recording before power is turned off, com- mercials might not be correctly marked.
Playing Back with Commercial Advance Marking
Follow these steps to select how the VCR op- erates when you play a tape with commercial advance markings.
1.Press MENU to display the main menu.
2.Use SEL s/t to highlight SET UP VCR. Then press SET.
3.Use SEL s/t to highlight SET UP COMMER- CIAL ADV. Then press SET.
4.Use SEL s/t to highlight C/A PLAYBACK. Then press SET to select AUTO or MANU.
AUTO — The VCR automatically skips marked commercial blocks.
MANU — The VCR skips commercials only when you press C/A SKIP during playback.
5.Push MENU three times to return to the normal screen.
Notes:
•Commercial advance does not detect all commercials.
•Commercial advance might skip part of a program if there are frequent dark and quiet scenes.
Questions and Answers about Commercial Advance
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How fast does the | The VCR advances |
VCR advance through | through 3 minutes of |
commercials? | commercials in about |
| 8 to 12 seconds if the |
| tape speed is EP. In |
| SP it takes about 25 |
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Are commercials still | Yes. |
recorded on the tape? |
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Does commercial | Yes. |
advance work at all |
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recording speeds? |
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Does commercial | Yes. |
advance still work if I |
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remove the tape from |
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play it back later? |
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Can I play a commer- | Yes, but commercials |
cial advance marked | will only be skipped if |
tape in another VCR? | the other VCR also |
| has commercial |
| advance. |
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Can I mark a record- | No. |
ing that was made on |
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another VCR? |
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