When you would low-key judge your friend's parents level of tech-savvyness by noting if their VCR was always flashing 12:00
When you would low-key judge your friend's parents level of tech-savvyness by noting if their VCR was always flashing 12:00
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.
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.
not in our household. every clock was secondary/non-important after the wall clock
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.