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It records, plays back and has a tuner. I consider their opinion of a timer being part of the consumer criteria to be BS. I have Zenith's first betamax deck (a rebadged Sony, one of their first 2-3 models), and that unit (as well as Sony's version) lacked internal timers (which were sold as accessories). Sony, among others, did this for their first few standalone beta models which by that site's logic would disqualify them from being a consumer models...Despite everyone recognizing them as consumer models.
....Besides most houses had or could cheaply get appliance timers that would run most early VTRs so why add a few bucks to an already costly consumer product when you could make it an accessory?
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