Panasonic PV-V4621 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR
Disappointing
Bought a 'scratch &amp; dent' unit from Crutchfield (great company),  but I had to send it back.  Playback quality of recorded tapes was sub-standard.  I really wanted the Commercial Advance feature and it worked correctly about 60% of the time.  The biggest pain was trying to use fast forward to get thru a commercial without continually overshooting.  Its too fast!  (my old Admiral is two speed and much easier to control).  The programming interface is also archaic!  Having to use the up/dn keys to set the channel, time, and date is ridiculous.  It blows my mind that we've advanced so far with all these features yet their implementation is two steps back from what we had in the past.