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  2. Blinking twelve problem - Wikipedia

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    The clock could be set by using a combination of buttons provided on the VCR in a specific sequence that was found complicated by most users. As a result, VCR users were known to seldom set the time on the VCR clock. This resulted in the default time of '12:00' blinking on the VCR display at all times of the day, which is the origin of this term.

  3. On-screen display - Wikipedia

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    The Akai VS-2 was the first VCR with an on-screen display, originally named the Interactive Monitor System. By displaying the information directly on the television screen, this innovation eliminated the need for the user to be physically near the VCR to program recording, read the tape counter, or perform other common features.

  4. Videocassette recorder - Wikipedia

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    A videocassette recorder (VCR) or video recorder is an electromechanical device that records analog audio and analog video from broadcast television or other AV sources and can play back the recording after rewinding. The use of a VCR to record a television program to play back at a more convenient time is commonly referred to as time shifting.

  5. How digital TV will kill off the VCR - AOL

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    Unless you can pop for a new VCR with a digital tuner or can find. Start transferring your VHS tapes to DVD if you want to watch all of those old movies you have when the nation's analog TV ...

  6. View-Master Interactive Vision - Wikipedia

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    It also requires a VCR and videotapes that the system will add graphics to. As the video plays, the characters address the player directly, and ask the player to make a choice by pressing one of the buttons. Simple videogames with graphics similar to the ColecoVision game system are played during the course of the videotape. The Disney game is ...

  7. No longer using that old computer, TV, printer or VCR machine ...

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    Spring cleaning may be over, but if you have any bulky old computers, TVs, printers and DVD machines to get rid of, you’re in luck. Frost Bank has partnered with Junkluggers to host a recycling ...

  8. Analog Protection System - Wikipedia

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    Here they are large, forcing a VCR's auto contrast circuit to make the picture darker. A couple of seconds later, the pulses have reduced in amplitude, forcing a VCR's auto contrast circuit to make the picture lighter. A couple of seconds later still, the pulses return to their original amplitude, darkening the picture once more.

  9. Analog passthrough - Wikipedia

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    Analog passthrough is a feature found on some digital-to-analog television converter boxes.Boxes without the analog passthrough feature only allow older, analog-only TVs to view digital TV.