I'm honestly surprised the Sony is worse than the Panasonic in this comparison, as that Panasonic is the same unit that Kmart sold a bunch of in the 1999-2002 era, I should know, I ended up with 2 of them, mostly because the first one chewed tapes and made bad recordings, so I got a replacement under warranty, and the 2nd wasn't much better but lasted past the warranty period at least. From my memory they were about $100 each. That Sony had to have been expensive when new, I'd guess $350 as a top of the line model.
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