[Electronic M]

Believe I have that same model. I've never used mine to record because I already had some S-VHS-ET machines (the ET means they can record S-VHS quality on regular VHS tapes, and has notiing to do with aliens). I've never came upon S-VHS tapes for sale so using the ET decks for timeshifting and archiving made more sence.

An interesting note if you play an S-VHS or S-VHS-ET recording in a deck that was not built to play them you will get a blury, inverted, washed out, monochrome picture with some intermitant, worng(neon) color. I've also heard on the net that you can poke a hole in a regular VHS tape in a certain place and trick S-VHS decks into recording an S-VHS signal on them(the only hitch being that the tapes erase them selves in about a month). Some day I'll get off my but and test it as I have a hard time believeing that.

These are great machines and I'm sure that you will love yours.

Tom C.
PS: there are lots of cool features in the menus of these decks to play with.