Re: VCR clocks

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>... but in the event of a power failure long enough to lose the clock,
>does the vcr also lose the programming information?

Yes.

I don't want to become a Sony salesman-without-portfolio (or paycheck),
but it's almost as easy to program as it is to set the clock.  The remote
has this little flip-up door, that surrounds the LCD display.  Under the
door are a bunch of rocker switches.  On the remote, you just press the
appropriate rocker switch for day-of-week (with options for weekly, daily,
etc.), on-hour, on-minute, off-hour, off-minute, channel, record mode.

Then you press "transmit" and the program is sent to the VCR.  There's also
a "review" button so you can see what you've already got programmed.  It's
a masterpiece of user interface design.  (It's an EVS-550 8mm VCR if anyone's
curious.  Yes, I opted for 8mm over VHS or even Beta.  Goes very well with
my Laserdisc player, my Atari computers and my stereo cameras.  We all have
a penchant for technologies-that-don't-achieve-mass-acceptance, don't we?)

	Yours in obscure technology,
	-Greg


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