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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Recommendations on a VCR?
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 23:35:04 EST
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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