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- From: etobhag@etnxb.eua.ericsson.se (Boerge Haga 2634)
- Subject: Re: FISHER HI-FI VCR
- In-Reply-To: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com's message of 20 Jan 93 18:02:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <ETOBHAG.93Jan21145444@etn.etnxb.eua.ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@etn.ericsson.se
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AS, Oslo, Norway
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:54:44
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- In article <C15zGA.L4K@apollo.hp.com> rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer) writes:
-
- >I'll second this. My parents have had a Fisher VCR for some years
- >now, and it has been nothing but trouble with it.
-
- Well, as a counterpoint my circa 1986 Fisher HiFi unit has been virtually
- trouble free. About 2 years ago I paid about $80 to have a capstan assembly
- rebuilt (at least, that's what the shop said -- symptoms were that it would
- squeal on rewind & sometimes not rewind at all -- and the price included a
-
- That's exactly what happened to my parents VCR also. But in addition to
- that they have had troubles with the remote control and the write-
- protect detector (which made it impossible to record since the VCR
- always thought the write protection was gone, which in turn means
- that the cassette is write-protected ;-) )
- --
- Boerge Haga
- Ericsson AS, Norway
- e-mail:etobhag@etnxb.eua.ericsson.se
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