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(More customer reviews)I bought and returned this product...The PVVS4821 is made of...thin plastic - mine weighed in at just over four pounds!! It was so light that when you inserted a tape, you had to hold the macine or it would be pushed back from the "force" of inserting the tape!
The writing on the rear panel is not painted, so you can't read what the jacks are for...When you try to push in the S-Video, the whole panel bulges back; again it's the...thin plastic and incredibly skimpy construction.
Note that [this] Panasonic [model was made in] China for this new model...you'd be better getting last year's 4820 instead if you can!
The remote is terrible. Tiny buttons that are almost useless for essentials like volume, channel. And really bad layout has you fumbling all over the remote.
The picture is not as good as previous units because they substituted dynamorphous heads with...vanilla video heads. It doesn't even have 19-micron, so slow speed picture is noisy. Think circa 1984 video head technology.
The good thing about this unit is the commercial advance, which usually works. Too bad that some other manufacturers...don't have this feature. Also, the VCR Gold Plus works well, if you're too lazy...to set up your own machine once. Instead, I'd rather have adequate power-backup so I don''t lose my programming if the power goes off for long.
Anyway, what a disappointment. It's really hard to find a decent VCR these days, but I think that you'd do better with a good Mitsu or Toshiba - asd I've checked SVHS from 4 manufacturers side-by-side. Also tested the rather poor sony slnv81. This Panasonice ranks dead last by a long shot. I'm writing this because I'm peeved at how their poor product wasted my time and lost me shipping...!
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The PV-VS4821 feature Rapid FF and Rewind. A high-performance mechanism will advance or rewind a 120-minute tape in approximately 1 minute, versus an average speed of approximately 2.5 minutes on a conventional VCR. Families who rent a lot of movies are sure to appreciate this convenience feature. The top-of-the-line S-VHS model PV-VS4821 also offers Expansion Technology (ET), which allows users to record an S-VHS signal onto a high-grade VHS tape. Users will still get the high-quality 400 lines of resolution that S-VHS offers, but at a considerable cost savings for blank tapes. Commercial Advance is used to mark the beginning and end of each commercial segment while the VCR is recording. During playback, the system detects the marks and automatically skips over the commercials. Movie Advance zips past the ads and movie trailers at the front of many pre-recorded tapes, and gets the viewer right to the main attraction. Multi-Brand Universal Light Tower Illuminated Shuttle Remote is provided for convenient operation of the VCR Plus most TVs and Cable/DSS boxes.
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