Thomson Consumer Electronics Inc.

Randall Duane Staggs

James Edwin Hailey

Foy Edward Wilkey

Billy Wesley Beyers

In a videocassette recorder including 'VCR PLUS+.TM.' videocassette recorder programming system capability and TIMER PROGRAMMING capability, it is herein recognized that the respective menu for programming in each of the two available systems should automatically be selected in response to the pressing of the PROGRAM key by a user, and in response to which of the two systems was last used for programming the VCR.

Adaptive menu for programming a videocassette recorder

In a videocassette recorder including 'VCR PLUS+.TM.' videocassette recorder programming system capability and autoprogramming capability, it is herein recognized that the channel-mapping procedure may be greatly simplified by using the autoprogramming feature to locate and program all active channels, and then by mapping only those channels which are active, instead of requiring the user to select all 125 possible channel-programming positions.

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Randall Duane Staggs