Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Re: Recommendations on a VCR? Message-ID: <7145@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:22:52 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7145 Posted: Wed Jan 9 12:22:52 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 06:37:45 EST References: <428@hoxna.UUCP> <7016@brl-tgr.ARPA> <650@bunker.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 33 > > > > > > 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 *** 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