Panasonic PV-VS4820 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR
Exremely Confusing Setup
The manuel for this unit is so poorly written, out of order and hopelessly  confusing, if your setup isn't flawless the first time around, plan on  spending many hours trying to undo your mistakes and get it right.  Even  when you disconnect the cables, unplug the unit and then reconnect  everything, things remain stubbornly in memory, defying you to make  changes.  The Auto VCR Plus+ System Channel Setup AUTO SET UP, which is  supposed to be automatic overnight, may take nights and nights and nights  and never set anything up right, and in the Auto VCR Plus+ System Channel  Setup MANUAL SET UP it is maddenly, frustranting difficult to get simple  numbers to appear in the right places (you have two keys, up and down, and  with each tap the numbers leap from 3 to 14 to 56 to 3, etc).  After three  days and some 14 solid hours, I'm still unable to program the thing, still  unable to make an auto VCR Plus+ recording.  If you love challenges, have  oceans of time, infinite patience, and take joy in little electronic  appliances that are a thousand times more complicated to operate than they  need be, then this is the unit for you.