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| Topic: | VCR with Discrete On/Off This thread has 16 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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| Post 1 made on Monday July 22, 2002 at 13:53 |
george p Founding Member |
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Does anyone know of a cheap VCR that has discrete On/Off power commands?
I need to integrate one into a full system.
Thanks,
George
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| Post 2 made on Monday July 22, 2002 at 14:54 |
www.BlueDo.com Founding Member |
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George, JVC, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, RCA, Sony, Zenith, etc. Most units from these brands (and more) have discrete power codes available! Randy www.BlueDo.com
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MX-3000, MX-950, MX-900, MX-850, MRF-300, MRF-250 - Call or Email for THE BEST PRICE! [Link: BlueDo.com] or call (303) 873-1750 |
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| Post 3 made on Monday July 22, 2002 at 15:44 |
Unless you need an S-video model, in which case you can rule out the Sony (discontinued) and the Panasonic (excellent unit, but without discrete power.) Sorry, no experience with the rest of the above list!
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| Post 4 made on Monday July 22, 2002 at 16:27 |
www.BlueDo.com Founding Member |
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You can find SVHS units from JVC everywhere at terrific prices!
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MX-3000, MX-950, MX-900, MX-850, MRF-300, MRF-250 - Call or Email for THE BEST PRICE! [Link: BlueDo.com] or call (303) 873-1750 |
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| Post 5 made on Monday July 22, 2002 at 17:43 |
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George,
What they are saying is that most of those models above have discrete code capability, it DOES NOT mean that those discrete buttons exist on the factory remote itself. You may need to buy a pronto, or have a friend with one and use the discrete codes give in the files section of this site. Under Pronto....
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| Post 6 made on Monday July 22, 2002 at 19:26 |
edmund Elite Member |
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Rca's remotes come with discrete buttons, if want a power toggle for them, then you have go to another brands remote.
This message was edited by edmund on 07/22/02 19:55.03.
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| OP | Post 7 made on Tuesday July 23, 2002 at 01:21 |
george p Founding Member |
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Thanks everyone.
I will look at the Pronto files. I will also take a look at some of the JVC units.
George
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| Post 8 made on Tuesday July 23, 2002 at 01:39 |
Ernie Bornn-Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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Sorry that I do not have a list, but also check to see if pushing PLAY turns the VCR on. This is a feature of several current models. If this works, then use PLAY to turn it on, POWER to turn it off.
Ernie
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| Post 9 made on Wednesday July 24, 2002 at 15:41 |
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| Post 10 made on Wednesday July 24, 2002 at 18:16 |
edmund Elite Member |
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Just for reference, the one-for-all
discrete codes for a JVC vcr's are
vcr 067-discrete on-248
discrete off-247
b-code- vcr 008-discrete on-248
discrete off-247
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| Post 11 made on Wednesday July 24, 2002 at 23:21 |
Ian Schatz Long Time Member |
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Mitsubishi VCRs from the past 8 years (excepting very cheap promo units) respond to the following power workarounds, and will save you the need for pronto...
Macro:
MENU, MENU = POWER ON
MENU, MENU, Power toggle = POWER OFF
and on some models,
Quick Program, Quick Program = POWER OFF
Note that the Q.P., Q.P. macro will interrupt a recording in progress...I recommend using the MENU based macro if this is an issue for you.
Same Deal on Mitsu. DVD Players...
Play = POWER ON
Play, Power toggle = POWER OFF
Have fun!
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| OP | Post 12 made on Wednesday July 24, 2002 at 23:26 |
george p Founding Member |
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Thanks again.
This will be a piece of cake now.
George
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| Post 13 made on Wednesday July 24, 2002 at 23:48 |
edmund Elite Member |
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Ian , aren't the latest Mitsubishi vcr's
made by Sharp? I couldn't stand that
self-diagnostic feature. It would show
up, than freeze-up.
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| Post 14 made on Friday July 26, 2002 at 20:32 |
Matt Founding Member |
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Hey Ian,
That is very valuable info, have any other info like that?
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| Post 15 made on Sunday July 28, 2002 at 12:28 |
Ian Schatz Long Time Member |
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Edmund...the Mits units may very well be made by Sharp. This is not neccesarily a bad thing. The self diagnostic error codes can be used when you call mitsu tech support... they will tell you which combination of buttons to press to reset your vcr. Most of the error codes relate to a user resettable "fuse" that protects the motors & power supply from trying to pull a cheap 8 hour tape (too much friction in the cassette, too hard to pull).
Matt...Yes I have several more IR "psudo-descrete back door macros", I'll try to compile a list of them and post them here. For now here are a few more nuggets...
JVC D-series & Flat TVs / Most Sony TVs / Some Toshiba TVs: Anchor your toggle input cycle with the "Channel UP" command; this will always get the TV to go to its antenna input...from there you can use small macros to "toggle" your way around to the input you really want.
Mitsubishi DVD players: "Play" command reliably turns 'em on, "Play, Power" reliably turns 'em off.
I'll post more when I get a chance to refresh my memory. It will be good for me and all of you to actually put them down on paper.
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