Panasonic PV-V4623S 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR, Silver
Fun while it lasted...
The features and picture quality of this VCR are great.  Commercial advance is lovely, but sometimes it gets confused and zaps through regular programming by mistake--but it's accurate 90% of the time.  After all the recording is done, the VCR will re-wind and then re-play the shows you just taped, marking where commercials started and stopped.  This is annoying if you want to use the machine, because you CAN'T while this is going on.  VCR-plus made life easier too.  <br />Unfortunately this unit died after only 18 months.  I think that the commercial advance system put so much strain on the motor that it just wore out.  We tape about 5 hours of network programming a week (Raymond, Frasier, West Wing, Friends, ER, The Practice) and then on the weekends we catch up on our favorite shows.  I guess that was enough to kill it.  Poor little thing.  (I paid close to $180 for it--look how cheap it is now!)