Re: What has happened to VCRs?
- From: whodothere@xxxxxxxxxxxx (GMAN)
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 19:15:07 GMT
In article <lm6fg1thel0f6i9cuaedr6ocqq77lv39g9@xxxxxxx>, Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 02:22:48 GMT, The Man Behind The Curtain
><johngrabowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>I am in the market for a new VCR. It doesn't have to be anything fancy.
>> A $100 model will do nicely, and even that is overkill. I just want
>>the basics.
>>
>>Yet I'm dismayed by the choices I'm seeing.
>
>I went through something similar. My VCR died on a Sunday and I
>seriously considered upgrading to a DVD recorder, but didn't really
>have time to do the research (plus my computer was in the shop -- it
>had been a rough week for electronics at the Brown household).
>
>I visited Wal-mart and they had exactly ONE model, some weird brand,
>not even stereo, for $39. K-mart had a stereo RCA for $49 but were
>out of stock. Best Buy had a couple for $79 and I ended up paying
>$59 for a stereo Magnavox MVR650 at Target. It's AWFULLY light, but
>seems to work well enough; it's got auto-tracking and the heads are
>self-cleaning (supposedly).
>
The first thing most of us who are "were" serious about vcr's and maintaining
them would do was to open the hood and rip out that damn self cleaning part.
It is a round felt wheel that after a short time would turn completely black
and would clog heads on every insert of a tape or would after time rip one of
the delicate heads right out of the drum. In other words, self cleaning vcr's
are evil.
>The thing that bugs me is that all of 'em, -- all of 'em -- are
>programmed by some version of repeated "up" and "down" keypresses.
>Why on earth, if I want to record starting at 1:15 pm, can't I enter
>115 and then a 1 or 2 for AM or PM? I know the technology exists --
>my older machines were programmed this way.
>
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