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Other Features
Commercial
Advance
®
Commercial
Advance is patented technology that detects and marks
most commercials on your tape for any recording that is more than 15
minutes long. After recording, 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.
VCR MAIN MENU
1 VCR Plus+
2 Timer Recordings
3 Time
4 Channels
5 Setup
6 Preferences
7 Audio
8 Language
0 Exit
2. Press 6 to display the PREFERENCES menu.
COMMERCIAL
ADVANCE is a registered trademark of SRT, Inc.
