Just thought I'd ask a quick question about record-pause on the Aiwa portables - specifically the AM-F65 (F70 without some of the bells and whistles - no backlights, or LCD on remote, no AA battery pack). I was doing a slightly unusual (for me - I normally use a Sharp MD-X5H, or sometimes the analog audio RCA outs on my DVD player) recording last night, from a cassette, from my Aiwa CD system. Unfortunately it doesn't have anything appropriate for output, no digital out (or in fact digital connections at all), no RCA outs either (only auxiliary inputs), so I have to use the headphone socket. I have to use this, as apart from a couple of reasonable quality personal tape players, this is the only thing I've got with tape decks. I set the auto reverse settings to just play side one, then side two, rather than continuous - with hindsight I probably should have let it carry on and fill the MD, but then it would have carried on playing all night! Anyways to get to the point, I left it recording overnight, and as the tape (both sides) was shorter than the length of the MD, when the tape finished and stopped, my MD portie went (correctly) into record-pause mode. And I would imagine it would have been like that for perhaps around 7 hours, until I came down this morning. I was only using the portables battery (no mains source, easily nearby where the stereo was), which was around full charge. When I had a look, this morning, it was still in record-pause mode, and I couldn't make out an spinning noise by the unit, so I assume it was power-saving (? would it do this?) and had spun down the MD. I pressed stop and it wrote the TOC OK, and although the battery level indicator showed considerably less charge than when I started, it still showed one full block (out of three), and given that it recorded for just over an hour, and was then left for around 7 hours in record-pause, I assume it must have done at least some power saving. What I'm curious about is whether this is particularly bad for the unit (ie being in record-pause for so many hours), and whether anything has likely had it's life shortened prematurely. I only ask, really, as from memory I remember some vague comments, back in the mists of time, about it being bad practice to leave porties in record-pause for lengthy periods. Neil _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
