Panasonic PV-V4540 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR

Manufacturer:	Panasonic
List price:	~~$139.95~~
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Panasonic PV-V4540 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR

Average rating: Stars

Poor Picture Quality, worse features

I purchased this VCR in December. At first there was just a small amouut of fuzz on screen, but 4 months later, I cannot even enjoy a movie. I have cleaned the heads, changed televisions, even used MonsterÂ® Cables.....the fact is, this is just another flaw design by Panasonic. one other thing, this VCR makes more noise than a blender. You must have your speakers loud to hear over the moan of the vcr, and rewinding will wake the dead. One of the worse buys ever.

Panasonic PV-V4540 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR - Panasonic

A good, solid VCR

Overall, it's a good and so far reliable VCR. There's a couple of design functions that the manufacturer should have looked at a little closer before sending these out. While watching a movie the display reads "Play." I personally like to keep track of the time when watching a movie and have to push the Display button to get the time. Movies play well though I seem to hear this one more than my last VCR (low pitched hmmmmm). And the remote control! Don't get me started on the remote control! Just as reported by others, tiny buttons and weirdly arranged. But like any new appliance, you adjust and sooner or later if you spend enough quality time with it, you are able to push the buttons in the dark! Good clear picture when FF and REW. The commercial skip, while it sounds like a cool feature, is a little confusing. Panasonic should have done just a little more road testing with devoted movie watchers/vcr users to fine tune the design.

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Hard to complain for the price.

This VCR has all the essential features like indexing and labeling so you can find different recordings on your tapes later on as well as a "tape-position-on-screen-graphic" that helps one zero in on areas of the tape like the old music search feature on some cassette decks. Hey this is about as good as you're going to get for tapes! This is not DVD with instant access! Yes the buttons are small and the light feature only illuminates the bigger buttons in the dark like "play, rewind, fast forward and stop". The other buttons like "tape position" you can't see. You might want to have a mini flash light by your table so you can see the other buttons in the dark. Yes these are inconveniences but the price is so cheap that it doesn't seem to matter much to me. If these things are really important to you however, then you should spend the extra money and get those features. WARNING DO NOT BUY A VCR WITH CABLE BOX CONTROLLER WITHOUT FIRST CALLING YOUR LOCAL CABLE COMPANY TO SEE IF THEY'RE CABLE BOX CAN BE CONTROLLED BY THIS FEATURE ON THE VCR. MY DIGITAL CABLE BOX WAS INCAPABLE OF BEING CONTOLLED BY A VCR REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE VCR MANUFACTURER SAID. I purchased my last VCR with this feature but it was completely useless in that regard and was a big waste of money. This VCR doesn't have a cable box controller and is fine for me since the digital cable box I had would only program-record one channel at a time no matter what.

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