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My VCR, a 10 year old Mitsubishi (top of the line at the time), has bitten the dust: it will not load a tape.I've been disappointed with new VCR offerings: they all seem to be very lightweight (implying use of plastic vs. metal parts), and the visual search and slow-mo features seem inferior to the old Mitsubishi (unless I spend several hundred $).
The local repair shop's opinion is that new VCRs are essentially junk,
"built to last only a year or so"...but of course, their view may well be biased.What would you do? Buy new or fix the old one?
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Buy a new one!!. I have an old Mitsubishi S-VHS machine myself (U-80 Circa 1987) and I recently paid $150.00 to have it serviced. It was a top of the line unit in it's day but hey, New S-VHS machines today cost $150.00 and yes, they do not seem to be as well built, but I bet that they last a good 5 years and perform as well as my old unit!!.The truth is, It's gonna' cost you a hundred dollars or more to service any audio or video component, and that being said....it's just not worth it nowadays. With electronics as cheap as they are, just buy a new one and spare yourself the headache!!
My neighbor just bought a brand new Sony, just above the bottom line model for $120.00. The picture and slo'mo on it is better than my 5 or 6yr old Hitachi that I spent about $450.00 on.My $.02
Fish
Depends on repair cost and how complex the problem is. If it is simple and cheap then repair,if not buy new. Yes vcrs are not made like they used to, but if you avoid the really cheap ones and go for super VHS, I think you will be happy.
You know, for a HI-FI VCR being so cheap now, it's almost expendable, use them up and throw them away. You will get better than a few years use, more like 5. We have 40 dubbing machines here,(cheap vcr's) they are still working 8HRs a day, and one occasionally needs a sensor lite or something small. The only thing about getting around 10 years old, is not just belts and idlers, it's caps and electronic parts. Things can tend to get a little sloppy. They are built better, but are they really worth the cost of repair and trouble shooting? Fine, if you can fix-em yourself, but bench time?
--db
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