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Originally Posted by 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
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Toshiba built the #1 most-reliable and most trouble-free S-VHS VCRs back in the late-1980s. Studio Sound Electronics CEO (former VCR repairman) also confirmed it too.
SV-970 is a 4-head Hi-Fi S-VHS, while the higher-end SV-F990 is a 6-head Hi-Fi w/ flying-erase-head S-VHS.
Mitsubishi HS-U70 (competitor to Toshiba SV-970) offered Faroudja video playback circuit, with better S-VHS picture quality than Toshiba.