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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Looking for tunerless, timerless vcr
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 13:53:47 EST
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> Is it possible to buy a VHS VCR without the tuner, rf modulator, or timer?
> All I want or need is video+audio in, video+audio out.  Should be quite a
> bit cheaper than the standard VCR.

I agree that such a beast *should* be cheaper, if it exists, but I'll
also wager that it will not be! I venture to guess that economies of
scale will make an ordinary VCR with tuner & timer cheaper than one
without those included. It is probably exactly analogous to the
situation in audio regarding receivers and amplifiers -- you can easily
find a cheap receiver for $100 or so but try and find just the amplifier
section of this for $75 or $80! You can't. The cheapest integrated amplifiers
all cost more than the cheapest receiver. The makers can sell so many
more of the low-end receivers than they can sell stand-alone amplifiers
that it becomes cheaper (per-item) to make something more complex.

Will