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OKAY, I am mad as H... and I don't have to take it anymore!!!! IF you are buying a new VCR or Combination VCR/TV, get one that has the automatic clock setting feature. If you have a digital clock, replace it with an old fashioned plug in analog clock. If the power goes off for five minutes, the clock only loses five minutes. It has one knob to set the time, and one to set the alarm. You don't wake to music, you wake to a loud ringing sound that WILL wake you up! If you don't want to take a chance on losing even a few minutes, then get a windup clock too. If enough people stop buying electonic products that are user unfriendly, they will start making them the way we want! A more manly act than setting the VCR clock, is taking the stupid thing back to the store, and folding it around the salespersons head, who did not tell you a degree in advanced electronic engineering, a knowledge of Calculus, and an ability to translate the instruction manual to your native language is mandatory to make it work. The fact that all the controls are the size of pinheads, and are the same color as the control panel, usually black or dark gray.It is a challenge to even FIND the controls, and what they do. Now there are some that TALK to you, imaginge that! You are pushing the buttons and a voice says "This is your VCR, listen and you won't get hurt! Push the black button, until the screen display stops smoking..." OKAY, now I will go to sleep..(ME, not the VCR, the VCR is not sleeping, it is DEAD!!!) KenB