Questions and Answers about Commercial Advance

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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.Repeatedly press or to highlight

C/A RECORD, then press to select ON or OFF.

ON — With this setting, when you press STOP to end a recording, the VCR asks you if you want it to mark commercials when you stop recording or turn the VCR off.

OFF — The VCR does not mark commer- cials.

6.When you finish setting up Commercial Advance, press MENU/ACTION twice.

Notes:

•When recording ends, it takes several min- utes 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 35).

•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 and 45 commercial loca- tions in memory at one time. When the memory becomes full, the remaining com- mercials are not marked.

•The Commercial Advance feature setting returns to 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.

Selecting a Commercial Advance Tape Playback Option

Follow these steps to select how the VCR op- erates when you play any marked tape.

1.Press MENU/ACTION to display the main menu.

2.Repeatedly press or to highlight

SET UP FEATURE, then press .

3.Repeatedly press or to highlight

SET UP COMMERCIAL ADV., then press .

4.Repeatedly press or to highlight

C/A PLAYBACK, then press to select

AUTO or MANUAL.

AUTO — The VCR automatically skips marked commercial blocks.

MANUAL — The VCR skips commercials only when you press C/A SKIP/ZERO during playback.

5.When you finish, press MENU/ACTION three times to exit.