Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Fairfax, VA USA
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Trickplay during playback from VCR

I own a DirecTivo and am asking this question for a friend who is considering a SA Tivo:

On a standalone Tivo, can you play a tape from a VCR and use the trick play features (i.e., rewind, replay, etc.)?

Thanks.

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Originally posted by jschuman:
On a standalone Tivo, can you play a tape from a VCR and use the trick play features (i.e., rewind, replay, etc.)?

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Massachusetts
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What an odd coincidence. I was telling a co-worker about my TiVo and he asked exactly the opposite question.

He wanted to know if the save-to-VCR function would allow you to skip the commercials. i.e. could you ff the tivo or pause the vcr when saving to tape.

I told him I didn't know becasue I haven't used my VCR since I installed TiVo. But what's the answer to his question? I suspect you could, right?



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Registered: Mar 2001
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If I have nothing better to do, then I remove the commercials from shows while laying them the VHS. I pause the VCR, FF thru the commercials on TiVo, jump back 8 seconds, and clear the Status bar. Then I hit record on the VHS.

Wish you could mark in/out points on recordings on TiVo as a backdoor. You have to watch all the commercials once to do it, so this doesn't threaten advertisers. And it would allow us to lay down commercial-free episodes to tape, or cut out a small segment of an hour long show we want to save.

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Registered: Oct 2000
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If you use the save to VCR function then NO as the controls are locked. If you just hit record on your VCR and play on the TiVo followed by normal FF commands and such, then yes.

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Originally posted by feldon23:
If I have nothing better to do, then I remove the commercials from shows while laying them the VHS. I pause the VCR, FF thru the commercials on TiVo, jump back 8 seconds, and clear the Status bar. Then I hit record on the VHS.

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