Re: VCR needs Zenith head motor

On 24 Dec 2006 07:35:37 -0800, "lsmartino" <luismartino76@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


mm ha escrito:

<SNIP>

When I said I can't find such a good quality vcr, I wasn't referring
to the quality of the picture but to all the features::

It has the ability to write and erase index marks whenever I choose.
It has 4 or more forward speeds not counting the infinitely variable
slow speed.
It has 2 reverse speeds.
It calculates how much tape is left in the cassette.


These characteristics, and more, are present in any DVD recorder. DVD
recorders like the Panasonic DMR-ES10 have very good editing
capabilities. For instance, if you record a 2 hour long show, you can
remove all the commercials *after the recording has been finished*, and
recover 30 minutes of *usable* recording space. This something a single
deck VCR can´t do. Also, the overall image quality and sound of a DVD
recorder is better. Do you want to create index marks? Well, index
marks are replaced in the DVD format by chapters and subchapters which
can be created whenever you want. And I´m speaking here of a basic DVD
recording machine. There are higher end ones which have more functions,
including an internal harddisk. You make all the editing of the show in

I won't be doing any editing. But being able to mark things is good.
I appreciate your trying to make me feel better about the perhaps
inevitable change I have to endure.

the harddisk, and when you are finished, you just tranfer it to a blank
DVD-R or DVD-RW. Also, blank DVD-RW´s are cheaper than VHS blank
tapes, and blank DVD-R´s are the cheapest of all.

I use the tapes dozens or hundreds of times. I generally don't have
any desire to see the tape a second time. Some tapes last for years.
I think in the last 22 years I've thrown away less than a dozen tapes
because they were worn out, and I used to tape maybe 2-4 hours every
day, while I was at work or out for the evening and sometimes taping a
show while watching another. Now television is so bad that I'm lucky
if there is one show on that I want to watch. If I got cable, I'd
watch too much tv. I actually have more time to get things done now
that tv isn't the draw it was, but that makes recording the good shows
all that more important.

It displays almost everything on the VCR so I don't have to turn on
the tv to use on-screen programming. Displaying on the vcr is
important when I want to watch something in another room or on another
floor. It has buttons ON the vcr for all 10 numbers, so I don't have
to find the remote, which might be in another room on another floor,
since I use Leap Frog remote that sticks on the front of my remote and
works from any room in the house.


This is the only part that can´t be done with a DVD recorder, because
all of them must be programmed with the TV turned on, but I don´t see
why it should be a problem.

It's a big problem for me. But if some people can live with war and
famine, I guess I can learn to live with this.

Thanks a lot!

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