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Originally Posted by B 4204 T3
After using this VCR regularly for the last four months since I had it serviced in the repair shop, a new problem has happened with it.
Yesterday, I taped a TV show on it, after the show ended, when I tried to play the tape back, it wouldn't rewind. I kept pushing the rewind button, and I thought it was working fine, since I could hear the internal mechanism whirring for about five seconds, but it kept stopping, and it wouldn't rewind. I also noticed that the numbers on the counter were not changing, so I knew that something was malfunctioning.
Before yesterday, the rewind and fast forward functions worked fine, although slowly, but I couldn't get it to work yesterday for some reason. What is really strange is that the search functions still worked; the tape would rewind and fast forward while I was playing the tape. It works by holding the rewind and fast forward buttons in the entire time while I was searching thru the tape, which is the only way that I was able to rewind the tape & play it back.
I also tried playing, rewinding, and fast forwarding a few different video tapes, and the VCR did the same thing on all of the tapes, so I know that the problem is with the VCR and not the tapes.
I am confused by what is going on, and why it failed only four months after having the VCR serviced in the electronics repair shop. Does anyone know what could be wrong with it? Any suggestions are really appreciated.
Thank you very much!
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Those Hitachi, as well as GE, RCA and others they built were always trouble-prone. They never stayed fixed! GE and RCA had Samsung make them, right after. They weren't very good either! Now it seems, Samsung can do no wrong.
Hit the Thrift shops, yard sales. Many times, they can be had for less than you paid for that dog. Maybe even free!