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Originally Posted by waltchan
Yes, both the Sears and GE top-loaders were made by Hitachi. The GE top-loaders were all 1982 and older..
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I recall one of those top-loader GE-Hitachis had a VIR Stripper circuit added to remove the VIR in the video for their companion GE TVs because the tape wow and flutter speed and phase variations played havoc on the VIR in the TV a feature GE had. So they just killed it at the source. Interestingly that also removed the Macrovision copyguard stuff in the vertical interval and made tapes played on one of those GE-Hitachis recordable on other VCRs. Only the GE version had it.