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Old 12-07-2020, 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeffhs View Post
BTW, I've heard of 4-head VCRs (as I mentioned in another post, my Panny PV-4002 has four heads), but VK member Vortalexfan's 3-head deck is a new one on me. How did Panasonic get away with using just three heads in this deck? I would think at least four heads would be the minimum number required to make a usable VCR.
The third head is only used during pause and scan to clean up the image. For normal playback and recording it operates like a two head.
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