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From: briarpatch!chip@mips.com (Chip Hoover)
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Subject: Re: Needed: long recording times! Help
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Date: 10 Jun 91 12:51:30 GMT
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In article <12726@uwm.edu>, decwrl!well.sf.ca.us!well!winkler@uunet.UU.NET 
(Dan Winkler) writes:
> One thing I don't have though is the ability to direct tune to
> different stations.  Right now, I can do timed recording, but only of
> one station.  I wish there were an audio tape recorder that could
> really do everything a VCR does for video -- store large amounts on 1
> tape, do timed recording, and automatically tune to different
> stations.  Does anyone know of such a thing?

One option would be to find one of those universal remotes that can
be programmed to send out a sequence of commands at a given time.  You
could have it turn on the tuner, set the station, turn on the VCR, start
it recording and there you have it!  Of course, this would require a
tuner with IR remote control.  It would also require the universal remote
to be able to send out sequences of commands from mixed IR sources
(although, if that weren't possible, I suppose you could have it send
out the tuner commands at one time and the VCR commands a minute later).

I *think* universal remotes like this exist and shouldn't cost much more
than any of the other things people have suggested.

Good Luck!

Chip Hoover			     lever.com!briarpatch!chip
San Francisco, CA	mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US!briarpatch!chip