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- From: mdm@bnr.ca (Diane MacMartin)
- Subject: VCR+ Problem - skipping channel digits
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.183103.18754@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:31:03 GMT
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- PLEASE, no flames about using VCR+. I can program my VCR just fine, but
- my convertor box does not allow programming.
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- Has anyone else ever experienced the following problem? Occasionally -
- about 10 to 20% of the time - our VCR+ skips a digit when changing the
- channel on our convertor (eg it will tape channel 7 instead of 37, or 1
- instead of 19). The test function has never failed. It started doing
- this after we had had it about 4-6 weeks.
-
- I called the 1-800 number, and they instructed me to place the VCR+
- directly on top of the convertor. This helped a little - reduces the
- incidence of error - but it is still happening. WHY is this happening
- at all? Is there a solution?
-
- Is there anything that might be dirty that I might try cleaning? What
- about battery strength - they were new batteries when I bought the VCR+,
- and it started failing about 4-6 weeks later.
-
- Thanks for any help you can offer.
-
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- Diane MacMartin@bnr.ca Bell-Northern Research, Ltd Ottawa, Canada
- Any opinions are my own and do not represent BNR.
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