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From: jhw@bunker.UUCP (Jack Weintraub)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Re: Recommendations on a VCR?
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 08:37:23 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  8 08:37:23 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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