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I bought this Sony SLV-N55 new back in 2002I still have it,works fine,never had a problemwith the unit,however the remote control brokedown(got melted under a candle flame).withoutthis specific remote you can't access the audiofunctions i.e.stereo sound etc.
This Sony VCR works like new and has the features I wanted. Ron
As some have stated, this VCR produces noticable jittery effects on screen during playback and has done so from day 1. I would not recommend it to anyone, and I have lost faith in Sony QC.
-Counter zeroes every time a tape is put in so if you take a tape out then put it back in you loose the index, annoying but not a big deal. Basically the display yeilds amlost no usefull information at all. -The one feature that is horrible is the display. -You pay a slightly higher price, but not too much more, for the Sony name and you do recieve a quality product. It shows only counter while recording or playing. Can not see what channel you are taping to see if it is the right one, and can not see the time of day while it is recording either. Sony SLV-N55 VCR*Record and play quality is great.
-Can not use the numbers when seting timer recording, forced to use the up down buttons only. *Search, commercial skip and replay are very welcome features. -It rewinds & fast forwards very fast but greatly over shoots every time. But I expected a little more in the way of features for the this premium.
Also there is this noticeable outline to the right of every object in the picture, resembling a slight "ghost" effect like with poor reception on a TV with rabbit ears or turning the sharpness too high on your set. For me it occurs with some recordings made by other VCRs and pre-recorded videos. It seems to record with more color bleed than other VCRs. They should just keep everything the standard 26 Microns and all will be fine. go figure) A hyper-sensitive VCR that requires mint condition tapes to play a decent picture (in the Panasonic's case, to record one) is not very useful then, because you'll WANT to watch and use your tapes and videos in the future, and you can't store your cassettes in a vacuum, electro-magnetic and gravity free chamber or something.2) While so far the SLV-N55 has no problems playing back recordings made by itself, the quality of those recordings is not to my liking. So from now on I will avoid the feature "19 Micron Heads" like the plague. (I get digital cable) If this is what 19 Micron quality is all about, then no thank you.
I had an Optimus 19 Micron VCR long ago and while playback of it's recordings were fine, playing back of those same recordings on another VCR was very grainy. 1) Like someone else wrote, I too get this disturbance at regular intervals when playing back with the SLV-N55. If it's because of the condition of the tapes or the recordings are a year old, that's still no excuse because these same particular tapes play perfectly stable on my other 3 Panasonic VCRs, and it should have no problem with pre-recorded tapes ESPECIALLY.(Side Note: I have a Panasonic PV-V4522 that makes recordings with a severe vertical jitter on older tapes, leaving you with a bad recording, but if I re-record over the same tape at the same speed, that recording will be stable. Every 5 to 10 seconds, the picture will jitter vertically for a second. I played around with the tracking to no avail. : P
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