RCA VR704hf 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR
Dead...
We received this VCR as a gift 2 years ago. It worked well through it's first birthday, but now it's already dead (or at least dying painfully). Beginning this past May, it began to \\"ERR\\" everytime we tried to do anything...rewind, play, turn it on! When this happens it doesn't respond to anything...no remote buttons, no buttons on the VCR. We have to turn it off and back on again and cross our fingers that it will let us tape our shows. The RCA website was NOT very helpful. Their troubleshooting solution was to unplug it for 15 minutes and plug it back in. We left it unplugged for 2 days and it still has an \\"ERR\\". When we called to possibly repair it, the guy said it was most likely a computer problem and we were better off to just purchase a new VCR. The repair on ours was going to be pricey.<br />My mom's Magnovox we bought in the early 1980's still works, but our new VCR is dead after just 2 years! How frustrating!<br />If you need one that works well, but isn't guarenteed to last...this is a good one, but if you need it to work more than a year and a half, you may want to look elsewhere.