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3. If necessary, repeatedly press PLAY or
STOP to highlight SET UP COMMER-
CIAL ADV..
4. Press FF. You see:
5. Repeatedly press PLAY or STOP to high-
light C/A RECORD, then press FF to
select
ON or OFF.
ON — With this setting, when you press
STOP to end a recording, the VCR prompts
you, when you stop recording or turn the
VCR off, to have commercials marked.
OFF — The VCR does not mark commer-
cials.
6. When you finish setting up Commercial
Advance, press MENU three times.
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 37).
• 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 settings or 40 commercial loca-
tions in memory at one time. When the
memory becomes full, the remaining com-
mercials 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.
Marking an Unmarked Tape
You can go back and add Commercial Ad-
vance markings to a tape you’ve already re-
corded.
1. Insert the tape on which you want to add
the marking(s). Be sure the erase-protec-
tion tab is in place (see “Erase Protection”
on Page 32).
2. Use FF or REW to position the tape to a
point 2 to 3 minutes before the first com-
mercial begins.
3. Press MENU to display the main menu.
4. Repeatedly press PLAY or STOP to high-
light SET UP VCR, then press FF.
5. Repeatedly press PLAY or STOP to high-
light SET UP COMMERCIAL ADV., then
press FF.
6. Repeatedly press PLAY or STOP to high-
light MARK UNMARKED TAPE., then
press
FF.

START MARKING FROM CUR-

RENT TAPE POSITION. appears.

7. Press PLAY and let the recording play to
the end. CA flashes on the VCR’s display.
Press STOP twice at the end of the record-
ing. The VCR rewinds the tape, displays
NOW MARKING COMMERCIALS on the TV
screen for a few seconds, then searches
for and marks the commercial portion(s).
Notes:
• CA continues to flash on the VCR’s dis-
play until the VCR has finished marking
commercials.
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OFF
: AUTO
TAPE.
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