Panasonic PV-V4612S 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR (Silver)

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Summary: PANASONIC PRODUCTS ARE WORTHLESS
Review: I purchased this Panasonic VCR mainly because of its price. A gear completely broke in under 6 months (with light usage), causing a tapr to be stuck inside the VCR. Panasonic's "1 year warranty" is really no warranty at all because they do NOT cover the cost of labor, and you can't just get a replacement, you have to take it to a service center, which costs more then the VCR itself. I have had other Panasonic products, including cordless phones, and the products and the company are terrible to deal with. A waste of money, and I will no longer purchase Pansonic products.

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Summary: Severely Ripped off by Panasonic
Review: I purchased this VCR only in October, thinking that it was a good brand name and good-quality VCR. From the start, this VCR gave me problems. For one thing, it won't accept all tapes - I am not talking about old, dirty tapes either, but a brand new video type could be put in there and it wouldn't accept it. That was just the start...as time went on, the heads quickly wore out (I hardly use this VCR) and suddenly I started hearing some very strange noises when I would go to play or rewind, etc. telling me that it was time to throw this piece of junk out. Oh, aside from that, disturbance is shown at the top of the screen for every single video tape, or I will put in the video and the whole screen will be skewered until I take it out and put it back in. It does this when I rewind or fast-forward

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Summary: Good VCR
Review: I recently purchased this VCR and I am very satisfied with it. I'd give it 4 1/2 stars, only because it misses some commercials with their "commercial advance" playback. It automatically skips the commercials (fast forwards them) during playback...you don't have to push anything to make this happen. This is different than the cheaper commercial "skip".

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Summary: Works for me
Review: I strongly discourage the purchase of a Panasonic VCR. My husband and I purchased one just this past July. After just one week of use, it started squeaking like a hamster wheel. Well, just two weeks ago, only 4 months later, it broke completely! We had to buy another new VCR to replace it, since the warranty is only 90 days. Maybe it was just one "bad apple". However, we don't plan to ever purchase Panasonic again. We bought a Symphonic this time. Our original Symphonic lasted 6 years!

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Summary: I STRONGLY discourage this one!
Review: I strongly discourage the purchase of a Panasonic VCR. My husband and I purchased one just this past July. After just one week of use, it started squeaking like a hamster wheel. Well, just two weeks ago, only 4 months later, it broke completely! We had to buy another new VCR to replace it, since the warranty is only 90 days. Maybe it was just one "bad apple". However, we don't plan to ever purchase Panasonic again. We bought a Symphonic this time. Our original Symphonic lasted 6 years!

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Summary: Works for me
Review: This is my third Panasonic VCR. It does everything it should. The commercial skip works about half the time, but I don't think that is the fault of the unit. I only wish it came in black.

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Summary: Broken out of the box
Review: Unit has nice features for the price, but mine refused to accept any videotape--old or new--from Day 1. Panasonic Customer Service is difficult to contact, poorly trained, and generally unresponsive.