[vdr] Re: instant recording - timer?

[Andreas Wohlfeld <agw@supersonic.ruhr.de>]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 08:49:45AM +0100, Dave Chapman wrote:
> Some "traditional" VCRs that I have used have an "instant record" function 
> that defaults to 30 minutes.  Pressing the instant record key again (within a 
> few seconds) increases this to 1 hour and so on.  This was always very easy 
> to use.

That's nearly true. All VCRs I know default to
"until end of cassette", "30 mins", "60 mins" and so on after each
pressing of record and some with the option to enter a) an exact stop
time or b) an exact running time.

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  Andreas Wohlfeld -- Germany
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