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From: ags@pucc-h (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Recording cable TV
Message-ID: <2535@pucc-h>
Date: Thu, 26-Dec-85 12:23:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 26 12:23:31 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Dec-85 01:07:49 EST
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Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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Keywords: Misleading labels

In article <493@ptsfc.UUCP> bgo@ptsfc.UUCP (Bud Odekirk) writes:
  (Concerning video switchers)
>Radio Shack has one that sells for $39.95 (sometimes on sale for $29.95)
>            ...                       One thing to remember is that the output
>from the box goes to the input of the VCR and the input from the box goes 
>to the output on the VCR.

That's something to remember?  I wish my TEAC worked as logically as that.
When I connected it up I did it the obvious way, connecting outputs to
inputs, but it didn't work.  After looking at the manual I discovered that
what was labeled "VCR in" on the back of the TEAC switcher was in fact
an OUTPUT, while "VCR out" was an INPUT.  Yes, folks, they did it that
way on purpose and said so in the manual.  Therefore I had to connect
the "VCR in" to the VCR input and "VCR out" to the VCR output.

Am I the only one who thinks "VCR out" should mean "output to a VCR" rather
than "input from a VCR?"  Suppose makers of VCR's and other video components
got equally clever with their labelling?
-- 
Dave Seaman	  					pur-ee!pucc-h!ags