When Did Everyone Get Their First VHS/Betamax Player?

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Originally Posted by waltchan

Did you mean to say that your 1984 Mitsubishi VCR stopped working in 1 year? How shocking, but no surprise.

Roughly a year after buying it the unit began to have audio problems with severe flutter at all speeds including SP. It was not a HIFI machine so any instability in tape speed was very obvious in the audio. I cleaned it and even had it serviced by the store from which I purchased it. Then it slowly went mad with the unit locking up randomly requiring that it be unplugged and plugged back in. By now it was out of warranty and I had it serviced by a local TV station engineer that was fixing VCR's on the side. Eventually I gave up on it when the loading carriage stopped half way through the loading process and I was unable to get a tape out.

The unit did not appear cheaply made. It was heavy and seemed to be of substantial build which is why I bought it instead of a Panasonic or RCA at the time.