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Originally Posted by Ed in Tx
I think Fisher was one of the most unreliable brands. However we were a Fisher-Sanyo authorized service center, so they kept me real busy! Rent-A-Centers etc. rented/sold tons of them. Don't recall if this model was effected but some of the mid-'80s Fishers would quit working with just one LED lit up on the front panel when the supercap for memory backup would fail. The reset circuit relied on the supercap to work.
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According to Studio Sound Electronics' owner, he repeatedly told me the 1987 Fisher VCRs and newer suddenly became one of the more-reliable VCRs he'd seen when they started sharing parts with Sanyo models, and you can ignore what people tell you on Fisher's poor VCR reliability. Only the 1982-1986 were the bad ones with idler problems that received 35% failure rate by Consumer Reports. I'll e-mail to him again for another verification.