91 Quasar TV/VCR combo with a major design flaw

[liammc00]

I got this TV as I thought was neat seeing one with VCR mounted on top the TV instead of blow it like most TV/VCR combos were. Unfortunately the TV has a flaw that keeps me from putting this one into service and it's not because the TV is borken in any way it all works even the VCR. After i did a mode switch cleaning and replaced the caps in the VCRs stand alone PSU. The flaw with this one is that you can't connect anything to line in or RF input that is Macrovision protected. If you do the picture will go light to dark doto the AGC in the VCR part of this TV trying to correct picture record level. The reason is this TV/VCR combo unit literally has a Panasonic standalone VCR inside it. Like all Panasonic VCRs at the time the didn't like anything Macrovision ran throw them as it would case the same porblem and that's fine on standalone machine. Unfortunately some engineer thought it would be good idea to make a TV/VCR combo but not let anyone connect anything that is Macrovision protected. So you could not connect an external VHS player, beta VCR, laser disk player, Phillips CDI, DVD player, and excretory. They also made the VCR calender not year 2000 compliant so you could only use the timer recording for 8 years after buying the tv before it was useless. To bad it has these short comings as CRT is in like new cont but it is no use to me if I can't watch DVDs as I have alot of them speakerith VHS tapes and more. So if you see this set don't even mess with its not worth it. Here is the model for this TV VV1220. This set I think was also sold under these other brands JCPenney, RadioShack, Panasonic, and possibly other store brands too. As for me I will just go and use my 95 sharp TV/VCR combo that has none of these short comings along with being a 4 head VCR, having a better speaker, and not having any trouble with Macrovision protection.

[ChrisW6ATV]

I have not heard of Laser Discs ever having Macrovision on them.

And, there have been some DVD players with a (sometimes hidden) menu setting to turn off the Macrovision on their video outputs. (Mostly or all smaller/unknown brand names, never the big Japanese brands.) Videohelp may be a Web site that had a list of such players; this was all in the 1998-2005 era. I have a player maybe called a Sungale DV-526UP? that has such a setting option in it.

[radiotvnut]

Over the years, I've had a few of these and they are better-built than the typical Funai crap. As far as those shortcomings, I never went that far with any of them. I simply used them for watching TV and for playing tapes on the built-in VCR. Of course, all this was before DTV and before DVDs started taking off.

[liammc00]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

Over the years, I've had a few of these and they are better-built than the typical Funai crap. As far as those shortcomings, I never went that far with any of them. I simply used them for watching TV and for playing tapes on the built-in VCR. Of course, all this was before DTV and before DVDs started taking off.

It is a lot better then the funai ones I will give it that but it's hard to watch Murder She Wrote when you have to deal with Macrovision interfering. Since I have about 1500+ DVDs needless to say I'm not going to be keeping the set as I have many others that don't give me any trouble and I don't have a tone of room.

[jmm83]

I wonder if one of these macrovision removers would work

https://www.ebay.com/itm/32545322800...mis&media=COPY

[liammc00]

Originally Posted by jmm83

I wonder if one of these macrovision removers would work

https://www.ebay.com/itm/32545322800...mis&media=COPY

Porbly would would work and if it doesn't I expect I could find other uses for it later.

[vortalexfan]

I had one of these that I got from the High School I went to. It was a really nice set, never had any issues with mine, except for when the VCR Mech Finally died on it, and was beyond repair.