When it comes to VCRs, Panasonic knows how to ensure the highest quality. They are designed, developed and manufactured with the best technologies available to ensure the highest levels of reliability and performance. With state-of-the-art features such as easy to use menus, universal tower remotes, auto set-up functions and front audio/video jacks, these VCRs come loaded with features making set-up, recording and playback easier than ever.
Play your favorite movies and easily record your must-see TV programs with the home-theater-ready Panasonic PV-V4624S four-head, hi-fi VCR. It features front A/V inputs, recording capability for eight events in one month, an 181-channel TV/CATV tuner, and rapid rewind/forward function. It's also the same width as standard audio components to help you create an attractive-looking home theater system.
The Index Search feature places a signal on the videotape control track at the beginning of each program you record, allowing you to quickly access different programs on the same tape by entering the corresponding one through nine keys on your remote. During playback, you can also skip unwanted scenes or commercials by simply pressing a single button on the remote control. The tape is advances in one-, two-, or three-minute increments.
Other features include auto clock set with 24-hour backup and trilingual onscreen display for onscreen programming instructions in English, Spanish or French.
Tech Talk
- Four-head VCR: A VCR requires two video heads to record a picture. With four heads, a VCR can perform special effects like slow motion and freeze frame, and it is optimized for recording and playback in both the SP (two-hour) and SLP (six-hour) modes. You'll also get a better picture from rental videos with a four-head VCR.
- Hi-fi VHS: The standard VHX format with Dolby Surround Pro-Logic encoded in the stereo audio channels, which produces near CD-quality sound. You'll need an A/V receiver with Dolby Surround Pro-Logic decoding to take full advantage of this feature.
What's in the Box Panasonic PV-V4624S VCR, remote control, 2 AA batteries, and printed operating instructions.
1 I was mistaken
I had previously written a review about this VCR and gave it only two stars because I felt it had only lasted a few months before some tapes started acting funny. There's another review about this VCR that mentions the same thing.
So I wrote a not great review about it and bought another VCR from Circuit City and immediately had the same problem with it. I found out that it wasn't the VCR, but a Macrovision/copywriting problem. Some VCR tapes, give off a signal to prevent you from illegally copying them on VCRs and so VCRs start acting funny. Trouble is I didn't realize this was the problem because I don't copy tapes. I only rent them or buy them brand spanking new. But the copywriting deal on VHS has become so strict that even non-copies are mistaken for copies with Macrovision and the picture gets all scewy. Especially if you don't connect the VCR directly into a tv. (which I can't do because I watch VHS and TV via my LCD computer monitor so I can only hook it up to the TV tuner of my PC) All this is not the VCR's fault, but Macrovision's.
Thanks to Macrovision, if you want to make copies on VHS tapes or just plain VIEW alot of the tapes out there nowadays like I'd like to do, you have to either pay $450-$500 on a "digital VCR" or buy a seperate signal transformer for $60-$125 and hook that up to the VCR (aparently the SIMA CT-2 is pretty good converter so I'll probably go and get that.) Otherwise Macrovision technology is bound to give you problems at some point with any VCR.
P.S. Macrovision can kiss my Butt!@ I called the company directly and complained.
