Panasonic PV-V4624S 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR, Silver
Should have used the money to fix my old VCR
I'm not happy with this VCR.  As other reviewers mentioned, when you rewind or fast-forward, it doesn't stop when you hit \\"play\\" or \\"stop\\" -- it keeps running for a couple of minutes worth of tape.  This is extremely annoying, because you can never get it to the right spot.  I had seen other reviewers complain about this, but I didn't think it would be so time-consuming or irritating to get to the right place on the tape.  It is.<br /><br />The other major annoyance is that whenever the VCR is in use (recording, playing, rewinding, fast-forwarding), the clock disappears.  The VCR clock is the only clock in my living room, and it's irritating not to be able to use it when the VCR is running.<br /><br />This machine also looks cheaper and less modern than my 13-year-old VCR that it replaced.  The remote control is terrible -- tiny buttons with tinier labels that are sometimes incomprehensible (how am I supposed to know that \\"CM/ZERO\\" means the button that fast-forwards one minute at a time?).  The buttons are put in completely unintuitive places -- in every other remote I've ever seen, the channel and volume buttons are at the top of the remote, but on this one, they're at the bottom and ridiculously small.<br /><br />These things are just stupid design decisions.  Did Panasonic decide they want to discourage people from buying VCRs, so they're going to make ugly, clunky ones that are needlessly difficult to operate?  My old VCR from Panasonic was a lot more user-friendly than this one.  The only benefits this VCR has over my old one (aside from the fact that my old one broke) is that you can fast-forward 1 minute at a time with one button (although I never needed this feature in my old VCR because it stopped when I wanted it to stop) and it sets its clock automatically.  But that's not enough to make up for its flaws.<br /><br />My advice, if you're shopping for a VCR to replace one that broke, is to spend your money fixing the one that broke instead of buying this one.ing this one.