Poor durability
Written: Jun 03 '04
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Pros: Low cost
Cons: Early mechanical failure despite careful treatment.
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| cw_iiic_dt3000's Full Review: RCA VR637HF VHS VCR |
I disagree with the earlier review about the automatic clock setting - it properly sets to the timezone, daylight savings, and timecode transmitter by one of your local stations. If any of the above settings (including the information transmitted by your TV time code carrier), you'll get that as a result.
The picture quality is OK. Recording OK. Ease of programming the recorder is OK. Memory while unplugged surprisingly good.
It's slow to "change mode" when playing. Takes a long time to pause, fast playback or reverse playback, or simply to start playing. That's annoying, but tolerable given the cost.
What's not tolerable is the durability. Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but this VCR lasted about 16 months with never more than 2 hours a day use.
About a month ago, it crunched a library tape. I've observed the mechanism and lubed a couple sliders that were showing wear. It now fails on every tape inserted with contact switches not recognizing the "record" tab on the cassette, the "tape in place" sensor suggesting the tape is not properly strung, and whole mechanism just messed up.
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Amount Paid (US$): 130
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