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Originally Posted by jstout66
I have one of those Zenith VCR's. My parents bought it new. It saw HEAVY use. (so much that mom wore out the rubber coated buttons on the remote). I know dad had taken it in a handful of times for new belts and cleaning. It still worked when retired, but I remember the issue it had was it would not stay on, unless a tape was in it. (it also did double duty as a cable tuner) so you could power it up, but you had about 3 seconds to put a tape in before it would turn off. Once the tape was inserted, you were golden.
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My parents first VCR which was a belated wedding gift for my parents was a 1990 vintage Zenith VRG 75 (which was a Goldstar made Zenith) and it had the on-screen prrogramming, 99 Channel Cable Compatible tuner, and it was a 2-Head Monorural VCR (which was no biggie because at the time the only TV my parents had was my dad's Zenith "Space Command" TV from 1985 that my dad had bought brand new in 1985 with money he earned from his first job, and that VCR saw heavy use as well but the remote's buttons were still pristine yet because they were made of actual rubber (not rubber coated) and that VCR was still in use uo until 1996 when it was retired to the basement which after that it didn't see much use and then after that it finally died in 2005 when the video processor board died on it.