Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!ittvax!bunker!jhw From: jhw@bunker.UUCP (Jack Weintraub) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Re: Recommendations on a VCR? Message-ID: <650@bunker.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 08:37:23 EST Article-I.D.: bunker.650 Posted: Tue Jan 8 08:37:23 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 06:32:27 EST References: <428@hoxna.UUCP> <7016@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 26 > > > > I've got friends with Panasonic and Fisher, both pleased with their > > purchases. In addition I own a Mitsubishi TV which I am extremely > > pleased with, so my instincts are to trust in their VCR's. I hadn't > > even thought of Beta format until reading this group today. > > > If you look closely you will find that the Panasonic and Fisher are > made by Matsushita Electric, so I don't know how a Mitsubishi TV is > supposed to correlate (all those Japanese look the same). > > For what it's worth, a friend has a fairly recent, top-of-the-line > Panasonic VCR and my father has one of the older *ahem* portable > decks. We haven't really had problems with either of them. The > older deck suffered one infant failure that was fixed quickly by > stopping by the repair facility that just happens to be located near > here. > > I'm inclined to stick with Matsushita, most of the active components > in my stereo are Technics, and when I worked at a radio station we > used Technics tape decks, turntables, and equalizers. The only problem > I have, is that they've stopped making a lot of this high end stuff. > > -Ron Fisher Vcr's are not manufactured by Matsushita but rather by Sanyo *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***