Panasonic PV-V4611 VHS VCR
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- VCR Type: VHS
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- Audio: Hi-Fi Stereo
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Panasonic PV-V4611--The VCR For Me!
Pros
quality picture and sound, nice features, low cost
Cons
none
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
This is an amazingly good VCR for the price!
I Was Bribed
Any wives who are reading this will recognize this scenario?
My husband and I are in Sears on our way to purchase something (anything, it doesn?t really matter what) and he spies the home electronics section. My hubby is drawn to big television sets like ants to a picnic.
Anyway, my husband has wanted a new home theater system for a long time. Recently he bribed me into taking the plunge. If we got a new home theater system, he would get me a personal satellite.
Before we moved to our current home, we had use of a personal satellite. I loved it, and I missed it badly when we moved. Also, I knew that my kids would enjoy the programs that satellite television would avail to us.
Being the pushover that I am, I took the bait and we ended up with a new home theater system.
I allowed my husband to do the shopping for the entire system. I know very little about electronics or sound systems, but those are areas of great interest for my husband. We came up with a budget, and I let my husband choose whatever he thought was best within that realm.
Why a VCR? Why not skip it and go DVD?
My husband opted to buy a VCR and a DVD player.
With the new, larger television and high quality sound system you might think that my husband would want to go with a DVD player and skip the VCR. He decided not to for the simple reason that we had too many movies to let go to waste and too many to try to replace with DVDs.
Why the Panasonic PV-V4611?
My husband chose the Panasonic PV-V4611 because it was the least expensive Hi-Fi VCR that he found. He knew that Panasonic is known for it?s quality products, so he felt safe in purchasing it.
Set Up
The set up of this VCR depends upon how you wish to align your home theater system.
If you?re simply adding this VCR to your television, you plug the antenna for the cable (or antenna) into the VCR and connect the A/V cable from the VCR to the television. Anyone could accomplish this quickly and easily.
If you?ve got more ?pieces? to your home theater, you?re in for an interconnected nightmare of wires.
In it?s ?advanced operation? section it does give instructions for how to incorporate it into a home theater sound system.
Basic Functions
This VCR carries the same basic functions as almost all VCRs.
Menu Language Selection (English, French, or Spanish)
Clock
Auto Adjustment for Daylight Savings Time
Cassette Playback (well?I would hope so!)
Cassette Recording
Timed Recording (with the addition of VCR Plus+)
?Advanced? Functions
Multi-Brand Control
The remote included with this VCR can be used as a universal remote to control not only the VCR but the television and cable or DSS box as well. Instructions are given on how to program it to control a wide variety of name-brand products.
This is particularly handy if you don?t want to have to memorize the use of multiple remotes.
Search System
With every recording, an ?invisible? index is placed on the tape, along with a program index and information on timed recordings. These are used aid in scanning your recordings.
Auto Operation
If you insert a cassette into the VCR that is lacking record tabs (i.e. commercial recorded ones) the power will automatically turn on and the tape will begin to play.
When the tape reaches the end, the VCR will automatically rewind it.
When a rewinding tape has finished (as long as the repeat play feature is turned off) the VCR will automatically eject it.
Commercial Skip
You can automatically fastforward (skip) past 1-3 minutes play time on a recorded tape.
Repeat Play
This allows you to play a recording over and over. Why anyone would want to do this I don?t know, but they can!
Tape Position Display
You can tell what position you are at one the tape at the push of a button. This is helpful for knowing how much longer the movie is.
This feature will not work for VHS-C tapes or tapes less than 60 minutes in length.
VCR lock
This feature allows you to lock all features of the VCR (save timer record and tape eject), which is very useful in households (like ours) with small children.
Dubbing
This VCR possesses the inputs and configuration instructions to allow users to connect an additional VCR to it so that you can copy (dub) your cassettes.
Cost
To be perfectly honest, I don?t know exactly what the VCR cost. My husband did all the shopping, and all I asked when he was finished was whether or not he stayed inside our budget?which he did.
I have seen it on Electrified.com for $89, and I remember my husband saying it was under $100.
If you decide that this is the VCR for you, don?t pay more than $100 for it because you don?t have to.
My Thoughts
I was not at all involved in the set up and wiring of this VCR, or any part of our new home theater system. My husband spent hours and hours at it, but mainly because he had so many different pieces to configure. The long set-up time cannot be attributed to the the VCR, but instead the complexity of the entire system.
This VCR has provided a substantially better picture to our television than our previous VCR, and the sound quality is also much higher. A VCR that isn?t hi-fi delivers poorer sound quality.
I have been extremely pleased with my husband?s choice of VCRs. It provides us with a cleaner picture, better sound, and a lot of nifty features (particularly ?commercial skip?) than our old VCR just didn?t have.
Recommendation
The Panasonic PV-V4611 has been a fantastic VCR for my family. I would recommend it highly for it?s high picture quality and wonderful sound.
Any wives who are reading this will recognize this scenario?
My husband and I are in Sears on our way to purchase something (anything, it doesn?t really matter what) and he spies the home electronics section. My hubby is drawn to big television sets like ants to a picnic.
Anyway, my husband has wanted a new home theater system for a long time. Recently he bribed me into taking the plunge. If we got a new home theater system, he would get me a personal satellite.
Before we moved to our current home, we had use of a personal satellite. I loved it, and I missed it badly when we moved. Also, I knew that my kids would enjoy the programs that satellite television would avail to us.
Being the pushover that I am, I took the bait and we ended up with a new home theater system.
I allowed my husband to do the shopping for the entire system. I know very little about electronics or sound systems, but those are areas of great interest for my husband. We came up with a budget, and I let my husband choose whatever he thought was best within that realm.
Why a VCR? Why not skip it and go DVD?
My husband opted to buy a VCR and a DVD player.
With the new, larger television and high quality sound system you might think that my husband would want to go with a DVD player and skip the VCR. He decided not to for the simple reason that we had too many movies to let go to waste and too many to try to replace with DVDs.
Why the Panasonic PV-V4611?
My husband chose the Panasonic PV-V4611 because it was the least expensive Hi-Fi VCR that he found. He knew that Panasonic is known for it?s quality products, so he felt safe in purchasing it.
Set Up
The set up of this VCR depends upon how you wish to align your home theater system.
If you?re simply adding this VCR to your television, you plug the antenna for the cable (or antenna) into the VCR and connect the A/V cable from the VCR to the television. Anyone could accomplish this quickly and easily.
If you?ve got more ?pieces? to your home theater, you?re in for an interconnected nightmare of wires.
In it?s ?advanced operation? section it does give instructions for how to incorporate it into a home theater sound system.
Basic Functions
This VCR carries the same basic functions as almost all VCRs.
Menu Language Selection (English, French, or Spanish)
Clock
Auto Adjustment for Daylight Savings Time
Cassette Playback (well?I would hope so!)
Cassette Recording
Timed Recording (with the addition of VCR Plus+)
?Advanced? Functions
Multi-Brand Control
The remote included with this VCR can be used as a universal remote to control not only the VCR but the television and cable or DSS box as well. Instructions are given on how to program it to control a wide variety of name-brand products.
This is particularly handy if you don?t want to have to memorize the use of multiple remotes.
Search System
With every recording, an ?invisible? index is placed on the tape, along with a program index and information on timed recordings. These are used aid in scanning your recordings.
Auto Operation
If you insert a cassette into the VCR that is lacking record tabs (i.e. commercial recorded ones) the power will automatically turn on and the tape will begin to play.
When the tape reaches the end, the VCR will automatically rewind it.
When a rewinding tape has finished (as long as the repeat play feature is turned off) the VCR will automatically eject it.
Commercial Skip
You can automatically fastforward (skip) past 1-3 minutes play time on a recorded tape.
Repeat Play
This allows you to play a recording over and over. Why anyone would want to do this I don?t know, but they can!
Tape Position Display
You can tell what position you are at one the tape at the push of a button. This is helpful for knowing how much longer the movie is.
This feature will not work for VHS-C tapes or tapes less than 60 minutes in length.
VCR lock
This feature allows you to lock all features of the VCR (save timer record and tape eject), which is very useful in households (like ours) with small children.
Dubbing
This VCR possesses the inputs and configuration instructions to allow users to connect an additional VCR to it so that you can copy (dub) your cassettes.
Cost
To be perfectly honest, I don?t know exactly what the VCR cost. My husband did all the shopping, and all I asked when he was finished was whether or not he stayed inside our budget?which he did.
I have seen it on Electrified.com for $89, and I remember my husband saying it was under $100.
If you decide that this is the VCR for you, don?t pay more than $100 for it because you don?t have to.
My Thoughts
I was not at all involved in the set up and wiring of this VCR, or any part of our new home theater system. My husband spent hours and hours at it, but mainly because he had so many different pieces to configure. The long set-up time cannot be attributed to the the VCR, but instead the complexity of the entire system.
This VCR has provided a substantially better picture to our television than our previous VCR, and the sound quality is also much higher. A VCR that isn?t hi-fi delivers poorer sound quality.
I have been extremely pleased with my husband?s choice of VCRs. It provides us with a cleaner picture, better sound, and a lot of nifty features (particularly ?commercial skip?) than our old VCR just didn?t have.
Recommendation
The Panasonic PV-V4611 has been a fantastic VCR for my family. I would recommend it highly for it?s high picture quality and wonderful sound.
