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Originally Posted by ggregg
Sanyo/Fisher units were trouble prone, like anything else they made at the time but the worst were the early Korean machines, Funai and Goldstar. The Zenith branded Goldstars looked like a million bucks but were real pieces of crap.
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The Fisher brand is indeed very trouble-prone, and it actually was rated the most unreliable VCR brand according to the vintage 80s Consumer Reports. Fisher's rating was completely off the charts. I've never owned, bought, or serviced a Fisher VCR, based on the dumpy rating. Mid-80s Fishers were the first mass-marketed VCRs to go extinct and non-existent in people's home today.
However, the Sanyo brand is a different animal here, with different electronics and chassis. They are much more reliable mechanically. The best Sanyo chassis ever built is the 1988 one:
http://www.studiosoundelectronics.com/mbk-09.htm. Consumer Reports even rated Sanyo as the most reliable VHS (not Beta) VCR brand of the 80s with a linear power supply.
Sanyo and Fisher has the largest gap of reliability difference made by a single manufacturer. I never understand why.
