LATEST VCR GUIDE TEACHES CUSS-FREE USE

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 26, 1992                   TAG: 9202260037
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: KILEY ARMSTRONG ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: NEW YORK                                LENGTH: Short
LATEST VCR GUIDE TEACHES CUSS-FREE USE
A VCR salesman is offering help - and some comic relief - for the legions who suspect VCR stands for "Very Costly Rustheap."
In "House-Training Your VCR (A Help Manual for Humans)," Dave Murray estimates that 70 million American households have videocassette recorders, but 6 percent of the machines are used as a "warm place for the cat to sleep."
Murray, 35, of Syracuse, has owned and sold VCRs for eight years.
"That first Christmas was a nightmare," he recalled. "The feeling is, this is a monster. My friends, they all joke a bit, just like Carson and Leno. It's a national joke."
Murray weaves humor around practical advice - like "Features You Probably Don't Need" - and, of course, plenty on how to run the thing.
His $8 manual explains VCRs in the manner of a genial, perhaps happily sedated, driver's ed instructor.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB