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Sony SLV-N80 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR: Superior Performance and High Fidelity Playback Review

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Revainrating 3.5 out of 5  
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3.7
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Description of Sony SLV-N80 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR: Superior Performance and High Fidelity Playback

4-head hi-fi VCR with plug-and-play setup. Commercial skip, digital autotracking adjustment, and parental lock. Multilingual onscreen display and 8-event/1-month programming timer. Front and rear composite inputs, 1 set of composite outputs, and coaxial inputs and outputs. Hi-fi stereo recording and MTS stereo broadcast reception.

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Revainrating 3 out of 5

Only worked after cleaning the heads.

It worked, but only after running it twice with head cleaning tape. I only need it for playback to transfer media files to my computer so I didn't care about recording or remote control.

Pros
  • Great for me
Cons
  • No instructions

Revainrating 4 out of 5

VCR works great

I bought a VCR for a friend and she says it's plugged in and working fine. If you buy one of these, make sure the channel select button on the back is in the correct position. My friend has never had a VCR with this button and it took her a while to figure out why it wasn't working. The remote doesn't seem to work, but that's not uncommon on older used cars. The delivery was super fast.

Pros
  • Great design
Cons
  • Crumpled packaging

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Revain display part is fully factory made

As advertised this is a used unit which had several independent sellers when I purchased it. Description *** Written not by the sellers but by Revain *** clearly says "What's in the box". This is clearly a cut and paste of the original manufacturer's (Sony) original description stating that batteries, cables, remote control and manuals are included along with the VCR. I didn't care about batteries, manuals or cables, but one of the reasons I picked this unit was because I thought it came with a

Pros
  • GOLS certified
Cons
  • Available in black only