ajs@hpfcla.UUCP (ajs) (02/04/85)
Learning how to use a better-model VCR is more intimidating than I thought. The instruction book for a Panasonic PV8600 is 40 pages and not very thorough at that. Just for fun I counted the widgets on the combined tuner and recorder, which together occupy less than 0.36 cubic feet. Depending on how you count them, there are something like: 48 controls 31 indicators 12 inputs 6 outputs (Some of the controls are multi-position, of course, and some only make sense in combination, and some are overloaded in function. Same for the indicators.) Anyway, wow, that's significantly more complicated than, say, your typical automobile or hi-fi. There are controls on every face of the unit except the left side, including the top and bottom! Alan "bells and whistles" Silverstein