Radio Shack 66 owner manual Selecting a Commercial Advance Tape Playback Option, AUTO or MANUAL

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•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 twice to exit.

Questions and Answers about Commercial Advance

Question	Answer
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 SLP
	(see “Recording
	Speeds/Tape Selec-
	tion” on Page 38). If it
	is SP, it takes about
	25 to 35 seconds.
Are commercials still	Yes.
recorded on the tape?
Does Commercial	Yes.
Advance work at all
recording speeds?
Does Commercial	Yes.
Advance still work if I
mark the tape and
remove it from the
VCR, then play it back
later?
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.
Can I mark a record-	No.
ing that was made on
another VCR?

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