I must agree quit humorous especially the continuous multi-year pattern: Robman posts a short remark followed by long diatribe from Cico

By the way you didn't mention what setup code you are using with the vcr. If it's 1067 or 0067, try efc 046,050, and 179. If 179 works, the vcr may appear to just be rewinding, but then hitting rewind or ff will allow you to set the index.

It seems unlikely that JVC would actually take the functionality out of the vcr, but they could easily change it in the firmware making it inaccesible.

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