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- From: syd@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Dennis P Hilgenberg)
- Subject: VCR recommendations, ~$500
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.153216.25267@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 15:32:16 GMT
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- I hate to do this, as I'm sure it's been done many times before.
- (So PLEASE E-MAIL your responses, and I'll post a summary if
- there is interest!)
-
- My eleven-year-old RCA SelectaVision recently died an apparently
- permanent death (unlike its previous deaths). This is both good
- and bad. Bad because it had a _great_ picture compared with
- most modest-priced VCR's which I've seen in recent history.
- (Then again, it wasn't "modest-priced" itself back in 1981.)
- Good because now I have an excuse to buy a hi-fi stereo model
- which weighs less than forty pounds and which doesn't make horrible
- solenoid noises whenever I press a button.
-
- So, please send me your recommendations (and by this I mean something
- more than "buy brand X, it's great!" -- tell me what you like about
- your model, how's the picture and sound, any problems with it,
- would you buy it again, what don't you like about it, etc.) for hi-fi
- stereo VCR's with a top price of $500. Remote would be nice.
- Do I want S-VHS? (I'm kind of doubting it, myself -- my main
- application would be watching prerecorded films, _not_ recording
- from the airwaves.) I _definitely_ want input audio record level
- controls, because I would like to be able to use it for audio
- recordings as well. I know this is going to narrow down my choices
- considerably in this price range (anybody know why this has to be
- true?)
-
- Within the price range indicated, performance (i.e. picture
- and sound quality, proper behavior of special effects, etc.)
- is most important, followed very closely by reliability
- (I doubt that I can trust Sony in this price range, but this
- might just be a personal bias), and then features.
-
- Thank you very much,
-
-
- --
- Dennis Hilgenberg
- syd@ecn.purdue.edu
- LaRouche in '96
-