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Panasonic PV-VS4820 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR

Panasonic PV-VS4820 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR

List Price: $329.99
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Video good - motors sound like a washing machine
Review: This machine does a good job as a S-VHS machine. However, its motors grind away like a washing machine. If you can put it in the next room with the door shut, buy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Everything a VCR should be
Review: Wow. This puppy continues to amaze us every day. Here's the last couple of surprises:

* After taping a show, it asks whether you want to delete the commercials right away, or do it later. How nice to have choices!

* It tapes SVHS quality on VHS tapes. Wait until you see SVHS quality, then see how yucky normal VHS looks.

* When you rent a video, one button on the remote fast forwards past all the previews. You see all the junk fly by, then the tape slows down, and the audio cuts in at precisely the first note of the movie soundtrack. Amazing.

Needless to say, we love this one.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: [Original Review] Good, but not great. [2nd Review] Avoid!
Review: [Original Review] Why can't anyone make a decent VCR anymore? This was my second (and final) try to replace an older RCA that worked great and lasted forever. I found the Panasonic PV-VS4820 to be a mixed bag. The plusses are that it rewinds and fast-forwards very fast, and that it has good picture and sound, even in SLP mode. The minuses are that the motor is VERY loud, it is very expensive for what you get, and it has the worst-designed remote control I have ever seen. I am keeping it, but only because I am tired of shopping for a decent VCR.

[Second review, just over a year later] Well, the VCR just stopped producing any sound output and stopped playing tapes, after less than a year and a half. I also own a Panasonic DVD player, with which I am pretty pleased, but this VCR is awful.


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