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There was often an additional on-screen interface on VCRs for setting up timed recordings, usually with giant white text on a blue background.
by Nition 6y ago
There was often an additional on-screen interface on VCRs for setting up timed recordings, usually with giant white text on a blue background.
- antod 6y agoThat was only on the last generation or so of VCRs. For the first decade or two, programming them was like setting an old digital watch with 2 or 3 buttons and making different digits on the clock flash.
- Nition 6y agoI disagree with "last generation or so", our one from the mid-to-late 80s had it as an option (you could set a single recording in the way you describe, but needed the TV display for multiple recordings). Apparently the Akai VS-2 was the first with an on-screen display on the TV, in 1983.[1] [1] https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19830424&id=DI1WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6566,8245689 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1301&dat=19830424&id=...