Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site oberon.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!uscvax!oberon!thompson From: thompson@oberon.UUCP (mark thompson) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: VHS -- still the pits? (Really AKAI) Message-ID: <43@oberon.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 16:40:18 EDT Article-I.D.: oberon.43 Posted: Wed Jun 19 16:40:18 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 07:14:28 EDT References: <1444@bbncca.ARPA> <1047@ihuxb.UUCP> Organization: U. of So. Calif., Los Angeles Lines: 18 > > I just spent some time playing with an AKAI 603 VHS Hifi VCR. > > From the ads, I think this is supposed to be at or near the top of their > > line of VCRs. > > In the VCR world (unlike the audio world) Akai is somewhat of an > off brand, so your experience with Akai may not apply to other brands. > Actually, I don't think that Akai manufactures their VCR decks. > Actually, my experience with AKAI suggests that one avoid anything of theirs that involves magnetic tape. nuff said. -mark -- mark thompson is THOMPSON@USC-ECLC.ARPA or { ihnp4 | hplabs | akgua | sdcsvax} !sdcrdcf!uscvax!oberon!thompson "Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky, The world seemed so much kinder when we watched them you and I..."