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Commercial Advance
®
This feature uses patented technology to detect and mark most commercials on your tape for
any recording that is more than 15 minutes long. Once recording is finished, the VCR rewinds
the tape to the beginning of the recording and determines where the commercials are located. It
then marks the beginning and end of the detected commercial segments, and when finished,
returns the tape to the end of the recording. It does not erase commercials from the tape.
During playback, the VCR automatically skips the detected commercial segments, or you can
chose to manually skip them. This feature reduces three minutes of commercials to
approximately 8-12 seconds of fast forwarding in the SLP speed. You can select a background
display of blue or see the video as the commercials are skipped.
Because television signals do not indicate where commercials are located, this feature finds and
marks them through a set of formulas based on how television is broadcast today. Since
television stations broadcast differently and insert their own commercials, you may experience
some variations in this feature’s effectiveness. Station promotions, identifications, and
announcements are not considered commercials, but might be skipped. For more information,
see “Questions and Answers About COMMERCIAL ADVANCE ” in the Reference section.
All of the COMMERCIAL ADVANCE features are accessed through the
COMMERCIAL ADVANCE menu.
1. Press MENU to display the VCR MAIN MENU.
2. Press 6 to display the PREFERENCES menu.
3. Press 8 to display the COMMERCIAL ADVANCE menu.
Now you can select one of the COMMERCIAL ADVANCE features.
COMMERCIAL ADVANCE Marking
Press 1 to turn commercial Marking ON or OFF.
• Select ON, and the VCR will mark commercials within approximately 30
seconds for the following types of recording:
— Timer, Timer with VCR Plus+, or Express Recording Sets the
VCR to automatically mark commercials after the power is tuned
off.
— Recording Allows the VCR to prompt you to mark the
commercials when you’ve stop the recording.
• Select OFF and the VCR will not mark the commercials.
PREFERENCES
1 Remote Control: VCR1
2 Auto Play: ON
3 Auto TV/VCR: ON
4 EnergySaver: 2:00
5 Front Panel: AUTO
6 Tape Speed: SLP
7 Set Auto Repeat
8 COMMERCIAL ADVANCE
0 Exit
COMMERCIAL ADVANCE
1 Marking: ON
2 Playback: AUTO
3 Display: Blue
0 Exit
The VCR is waiting to
mark commercials in the
program you recorded.
1 Mark them now
2 Mark them later
3 Don't mark commercials
The VCR will begin
marking in 30 seconds...