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Originally Posted by waltchan
When they were brand-new and fresh out from the retail-box before, all Matsushita-made VCRs were rated #1 in reliability by Consumer Reports for the first 5 years of use only. Of course, the power supply always works trouble-free for the first 5 years until the capacitors dried up from heat. The only way to fix this, blow a cooling fan into the power supply directly, and then it easily lasts 3 times longer.
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It's funny how time changes things like that. Issues on machines once though to be the most reliable creep up 10,20,30 years later. Whereas the surviving "cheap" models of the same time period keep on chugging along.
12-01-2022, 10:09 AM
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