Panasonic PV-V4623S 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR, Silver
Finicky and refuses to play many tapes
I actually bought two versions of this by mistake - one was branded Quasar, and was very cheap but gave me problems, so I went and bought a brand name - and found it was the identical model (poor memory of what the Quasar looked like when I was in the store)!  Even the instruction manual was identical - just the brand name changed.<BR>The controls are all fine and when it records the quality is fine, but it refuses to play many commercial tapes - just ejects them, gets them stuck on loading and I've had to take the top off a couple of times.  These are the same problems I had with the Quasar branded one.  A real shame, as I believed Panasonic did high quality goods until now.  I am shopping for another one and trying to guess the price that you have to pay to get something that works.