Magnavox MVR650MG 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR
Junk
Wow!  I guess I should feel lucky.  My MVR650 didn't start eating tapes until months after I bought it.  Well, not eating them outright, anyway.  It *always* chewed on them a bit.  From the beginning fast forwarding would scrape the oxide off the tape (that section would never be watchable again) but it didn't actually start refusing to release the tape for several months.  Shutting itself off as soon as you inserted a tape didn't start for months either along with ejecting that cassette once you turned it back on.  Oh, but I said it wouldn't release the tape, didn't I?  Well it would eject the *cassette*, but that doesn't mean it would release the *tape*.   <br /> <br />I lived with this piece of junk so long because it is hard to find a VCR these days narrow enough to fit on my shelf.  Everyone seems to have gone to those 17 inch behemoths.