[Jeffhs]

I had relatives years ago who owned a GE color set with VIR. To the best of my knowledge, however, they never used the VIR function, so the feature remained off from the day they bought the TV until they replaced it several years later with a Zenith 25" console. I honestly don't think they even knew the VIR switch was on the front panel; however, even if they did know, they may have had no idea what VIR was, so they simply left the switch off and forgot about it. All they cared about was that the TV worked well enough so they could watch the six local TV stations in our area near Cleveland, which it did--from the day they bought it until they replaced it with the Zenith console. They couldn't have cared less about fancy features such as VIR, but that was understandable since they were non-technical, older people; as long as the TV worked, as I said, that was all that mattered to them.