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.