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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Re: Recommendations on a VCR?
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:22:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 12:22:52 1985
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> > > 
> > > 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
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I think it probably comes and goes.  At the time my father bought his,
I seem to distinctly remember looking at one and saying "these two look
the same" and then looking at the back and finding out they really were
the same.

-Ron