Zenith VCS442 4-Head VCR
Not very good
This VCR lasted almost a year but just broke.  It now plays sound but no picture during video playback.  Setup and programming was very easy.  I liked how it could remember up to 8 different programs.  If I taped a TV show using SP speed, the picture during playback was very good.  (I also recorded some home movies using SP speed and they turned out well.)  If I used the SLP speed, the picture playback was horrible, much worse than my old Sony (which I had for 12 years and loved until it finally died).  It had no index search feature like my old Sony which was inconvenient.  I never used the commercial skip feature; I just fast forwarded through commercials on my own.  For some reason, if it was recording a show, I couldn't figure out how to watch my TV seperately.  (It wouldn't let the antennae signal through to the TV.)  In the past couple of months, it started having a hard time rewinding tapes (even new ones) and didn't record well at the beginning of a tape so the motor was going.  Isn't anything built to last anymore?  I'm buying a Sony with a two-year replacement plan because nothing is built to last these days.  Sigh...