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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
When I worked on VCRs, Fishers were by far the most troublesome. Their idlers went bad, so often that I still have the part number memorized, a VA01. That would kill fast forward and rewind, and maybe also cause the machine to start eating tapes.
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Fisher was the most repair-proned and least-reliable VHS VCR brand for the 80s, according to the old Consumer Reports' VCR reliability data. Fisher VCRs could receive up to three times more repair than Panasonic. Reliability improved beginning in the early-90s.
However, the Sanyo brand itself, which also assembled Fisher VCRs, was one of the more reliable VCR brands.
I was told by a tech that most Fisher VHS VCRs were designed in United States at their Chatsworth, CA headquarter, with all schematics sent to Sanyo in Japan for assembly, so that's how Fisher VCRs received poor reliability since they were American designs.