Need a new VCR in 2018.

[andy]

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[mgross0]

If you just want something for your daughter to use that will be easy for her to operate and plain old reliable, pick up an old 90's Hitachi. You may have to clean the mode selector every few years, but the buttons are big, the remote is easy to use, and they just plain work. These units may not have the best picture (colors tend to be light), but for entertaining the kid, who really cares?

[mr_rye89]

Originally Posted by andy

I hate to say it, but if you just want something that will work as found, I'd go with a late model VCR / DVD combo. The last of them even have built in ATSC tuners and HDMI outputs. They're flimsy, but they seem to be surprisingly reliable.

This. The DVD player part will probably be broken though

Originally Posted by andy

Panasonics from the 80s and 90s always had bad caps in the power supply. The AG-1980s I've seen in the last 10 years have all been full of bad SMD caps.

And silly expensive to boot. The bad SMD caps cause weird chroma noise, It has an unobtainium module that affects the video quality that's covered in literally leaky SMD caps.

Only way I'd get another AG-1970/80 is if it was free!

'98 and up Omnivisions shouldn't have bad caps. I've got two in use and they are ok. Now my '88 Omnivision the power supply "sings". No mystery there