Subject: Re: How to program your VCR (was Re: The tape of the [white | black] finale) From: larryy@Apple.COM (Larry Yaeger) Date: 1991-06-14, 15:51 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article dpassage@soda.berkeley.edu (David G. Paschich) writes: > > > >You'd think that people smart enough to figure out rn and Pnews could > >figure out how to program their VCR's. > > > >:) > > I left the smiley face above so everyone would know that you and I and everyone else knew you were joking. Howsomeever... Haven't you ever made a mistake while sitting and reading via rn or Pnews? Just typed the wrong key by mistake? Of course you have. But the system responds immediately, and you correct your entry. With VCR's you don't get the feedback that tells you there was a problem until the show you wanted to record is over and done with! Imagine if the only way you got to read News was by hand-editing a script from scratch each time you wanted to download some new articles. Hah! Guess how many times you'd get the materials you wanted! Anywho, believe me, I've (he sheepishly admits) recorded and archived literally thousands of videotapes. I know my videoequipment disturbingly well:-) Yet I still make too many incredibly annoying errors! Sigh. No biggie. No flame. Just the facts, mam. -- -larryy@apple.com "You wouldn't recognize a *subtle plan* if it painted itself purple, and danced naked upon a harpsichord, singing, 'Subtle Plans are Here Again'." - Edmund Blackadder