Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: VCR complexity Message-ID: <23600004@hpfcla.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 15:42:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfcla.23600004 Posted: Mon Feb 4 15:42:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 05:16:17 EST Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 20 Nf-ID: #N:hpfcla:23600004:000:790 Nf-From: hpfcla!ajs Feb 4 12:42:00 1985 Learning how to use a better-model VCR is more intimidating than I thought. The instruction book for a Panasonic PV8600 is 40 pages and not very thorough at that. Just for fun I counted the widgets on the combined tuner and recorder, which together occupy less than 0.36 cubic feet. Depending on how you count them, there are something like: 48 controls 31 indicators 12 inputs 6 outputs (Some of the controls are multi-position, of course, and some only make sense in combination, and some are overloaded in function. Same for the indicators.) Anyway, wow, that's significantly more complicated than, say, your typical automobile or hi-fi. There are controls on every face of the unit except the left side, including the top and bottom! Alan "bells and whistles" Silverstein