Jim said:
Your VCR may actually have that feature, just read the manual.
I did. Our Panasonic Omnivision PV-7453 does not have that feature. Oh
well, I'll just turn the DST flag to off and it won't auto-change anymore.
I'll have to say, that VCR stuff is one of the things that was more
modern in Europe. At least in Germany. There, the remote had a built-in
barcode reader. All the movies and pretty much any other important
broadcast had a bar code next to it in the papers. Zzzip ... beep and it
shows up in the little LCD. Check that you didn't accidentally scan the
horror movie below it, hit "send", another beep and ... done. No need to
give it an extra half hour in case so-and-so can't stop babbling or some
soccer game went into overtime. Because then this bar code would be
matched against a movie ID in the V-sync so the VCR won't start
recording before that movie really shows up. Of course, if someone
wanted to tape that soccer game this technology would make sure that it
won't stop recording until the referee blew the whistle for the last
time. And all this was 15 years ago.
Most, but not all, PBS stations have the correct time in the
vertical-blanking interval, and many VCR's utilize that information.
You just need to designate which channel is PBS (in the set-ups) for
it to work.
I wish. And I'll never understand why they can't read time
automatically. Why can't it just scan all channels and figure out which
is PBS? In this day and age that ain't rocket science no more. Or pick
up WWVB. Or whatever. In med electronics they expect a whole lot more
creativity out of us consultants, and rightfully so. <shaking head>