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Title: This one is a design disaster ... stay away
Review: I ordered this unit based on the Sanyo name and the price. I should have known - you get what you pay for. Not even 60 days after receiving it, and with very light use - probably about 40 hours total, it conked out. It just shut down when we tried to rewind a tape (nothing wrong with the tape) and would not stay turned on after that. No rewind, no play, no eject - nothing. You pushed the ON switch, the wheels moved the tape about six inches, and then the power cycled off. On-off, on-off. The tape was locked inside, and I had to take off the top of the housing to retrieve it. Wow - how much plastic can you put in a VCR? I think Sanyo was going for a record. Very few metal parts, and lots of thin plastic ones, just waiting to break. I had to pry the cassette out of the holder - I couldn't even make the retention mechanism "let go". We decided to simply throw this one out, and go purchase something that is designed to last a while. What a piece of junk!
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