RE: Post-holiday reality: They don't need our stinkin' manuals??

["Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com>]

And . . .

. . . how many really care what the clock on the VCR says? I play videos. I
watch TV. I look at the big clock, on the wall, for the time. It would be
nice if the VCR auto-detected the time but, otherwise, who cares? My VCR (a
4-head jog/shuttle Sony model, circa 1990) has a menu feature that leads you
by the nose through such things as setting the clock--thus no manual
needed--and, if you care, scheduling taping of TV shows. I suspect people
with VCR clocks blinking 12:00 mostly don't care about the clock on the VCR,
rather than being actually incapable of setting the same.

So, is my clock blinking 12:00? I dunno. Don't care. Now, for a second at
most, I might actually pay attention to it, for a moment, when I go home.

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sanjay Srikonda [SMTP:SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com]
> 
> simple example, you mentioning VCR reminded me of this.  How many of us
> have
> gone to friends'/familys' houses and see the VCR flickering 12:00 over and
> over again.  What's the most often used complaint?  I don't know how to
> program it.  How many users have ever read the manual on how to program
> it?
> Would it still be flickering 12:00?

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