Shoutout to Mr. and Mrs. “E” for their upstairs and downstairs VCRs always set to the correct time.
Related Question: What is the 2025 equivalent to this?
Shoutout to Mr. and Mrs. “E” for their upstairs and downstairs VCRs always set to the correct time.
Related Question: What is the 2025 equivalent to this?
It’s not that it was difficult to set the clock. It’s that you had to do it every time the power blinked, and most people didn’t use the timer function to record things very often.
True, but so did the oven and microwave clocks (and clock radios if you didn’t keep the 9V backup battery maintained). Clock radios are kind-of a given by their nature, but most of the time the oven and microwave clocks would get reset.
I still frequently use the microwave and oven clocks for their time telling capabilities. I never really did use the vcr for that reason because it was in tiny digits that made it hard to see across the room. I did set the vcr because it annoyed me if it was blinking, but I didn’t look to it for the time.
I guess the modern equivalent to not setting the vcr clock is having all the default ring tones and notification noises for all your apps.
That was pretty much what I was thinking of: default ringtone, full volume.
not in our household. every clock was secondary/non-important after the wall clock
No, VCR blinked if you coughed. Those things were far more sensitive.
Plus there were still a lot of analog electric clocks on stoves during the VCR era.
And don’t get me started on the microwave.
Screw setting all those clocks whenever the power burps. If you ever lived where this occurs almost daily, you’d understand.
Plus, setting a VCR clock was always a pain in the ass.
It knows what it did!
Some were, some weren’t. I remember we had 3 different VCRs, and it was always different.
Oldest one. It had a row of like 30 buttons behind a pull-down panel. You held 'Clock" until the hours started flashing, used the up and down buttons to set the hour. Press clock again to switch to the minutes (same arrow keys to adjust), then one final press of “Clock” to lock it in. Literally the same way my oven clock is set.
Just press “Menu” then “Clock” and type the time in on the remote.
Newest: It was automatic. It picked up the time from the PBS channel and set itself.
Wife and I don’t fix clocks on any appliance in the house, never have, don’t care. Either it picks up time from the daily signal in Colorado or we ignore it but there’s no way we’re setting it every time power blips. We fall in the middle of GenX.
Are power outages that common over there?