Panasonic PV-V4522 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR
died in 2 months
The machine seemed fine for the first few weeks, then got harder and harder to get a tape in.  Eventually, it just stopped accepting them at all.  Luckily the store took it back.  After three VCRs in one year, I am considering the possibility of copying all my tapes to CD and just using DVD.