Review on 📼 PV-V4640 4-Head Hi-Fi VCR by Panasonic by Wagner Witlin

Although I did not own this VCR (4600 series) I did own its direct successor and this VCR has stood the test of time under heavy use and me had no problems with it at all. It looked almost exactly like this one. And usually the old ones are better built. And I'm looking from the perspective of 2010 as opposed to their two reviews in 2000. Since this VCR doesn't have many reviewers, two is a bad sample to tell it's no good. I would lean towards Revains' own review on the same site - which is a good thing. As for Douglas Erb's regret about the lack of a mute button, not many VCRs had mute buttons after this production date. "Buttons are small," he says. Small is relative. For him, the small is acceptable for me. My Panasonic VCR had the same remote control as this one. (I saw a photo of this remote control on the internet). The buttons, while not large, are very easy to use and neither small nor large. every week while its successor fixed this issue. It says the slp quality is bad. I have personally recorded thousands of shows at SLP quality and today 10 years later they still play great. That's probably bad for him compared to sp (more accurate) picture which only gives 2 hours per movie and slp (super long playback). makes 6 hours on a 120 tape and 8 hours on a 160 tape. By recording this way you literally save shelf space for hundreds of VCRs. The second reviewer says he's returning it because of the horrible design and UI: it's completely bogus and not true at all. He also says it's noisy. True, there is some hiss in rewind and fast forward, but most VCRs also have hiss and the hiss wasn't excessive. There was no noise during playback or recording. I believe this VCR, the 4640, was built in 1996 or 1995 because it's the direct successor, the 4641 was built in 1996. And now it's 2010. So it's an old VCR. But understand this, as a rule, the older the better. The older ones were stronger. But if you're interested, you want one that either gets little use or one that you're willing to shell out $60.00 to have a professional set it up. And don't forget to record from that VCR today, you must be able to run it through either a cable box or a digital conversion box (not difficult with coax cable), even if your current TV has a digital tuner. But remember: you can play tapes from it or re-record from another VCR without a connection. In any case, I doubt you'll even find this video recorder today. If you have any questions, please email me at abcsoaps4@cs.com.