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Old 03-28-2022, 10:37 AM
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National (Panasonic) NV-BS1 S-VHS with built-in satellte receiver.
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Old 03-28-2022, 11:06 AM
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Does it work on North American TV standards, or is it just for European TV? I saw very little on the control panel to suggest this machine would work at all on North America's ATSC television standards. That is, it might have worked before the government totally messed up the TV standards in this country, forcing everyone to buy a new TV (I cannot use my Zenith SMS1917SG color set anymore, even though it still works [at least it makes a raster] after 20+ years, no thanks to this nonsense), but I am not at all sure this VCR will work on ATSC. It probably will not work at all with ATSC 3.0, the next new standard which will again force Americans to scrap their present flat screen TVs, even if the sets still work (!), and buy a new one.

Good grief! Will this nonsense ever end?

There is something else to consider as well. VCRs will not record ATSC TV signals, including those on cable, so there would be little or no use for this machine anyway, except for playing back old VHS tapes recorded in the former NTSC standard. The video recording scheme on some cable systems, such as Spectrum in my area, works quite well, but IMHO it is a very poor excuse for "real" VCRs or DVRs.

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Old 03-28-2022, 11:44 AM
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National (Panasonic) NV-BS1 S-VHS with built-in satellte receiver.
JVC and Dish Network had a VCR/satellite receiver combo in the US during the late 90's. Recorded the actual satellite digital feed on D-VHS so there was no loss in picture quality when you played it back. Sort of the first DVR.

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Old 04-02-2022, 10:09 AM
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I am currently working on a Toshiba SV-771, one of two VHS tray-load VCRs (the other being a JVC, I believe). It has an Eject button on the remote too, making me wonder why more VCRs didn't have that. This thing is so polite, it even pops the tape up a bit when ejecting so you can grab it easily.
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