Casual User Questions - Toshiba SV-970 S-VHS VCR

[mikethemag]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here, and I have some questions about my VCR, Toshiba SV-970

1. How did these hold up over the long term? I recently fired mine up only to find a gooey load belt. Belt replaced, it seems to run fine. Otherwise, does the unit have other common failures?

2. How many "heads" does it have? I don't see anything in the manual where they brag about how many heads it has.

3. It has a "shuttle dial", it seems like this was one of the first "jog" controls - is that true?

4. I'm not a VCR enthusiast, I got this one because a girlfriend told me I needed one if I wanted to Blockbuster and chill. So I got the fanciest, chillest VCR I could find. Where did this unit rank amongst rivals, back in the day?

Thanks,
Mike