Page 1 of Pacific VCR (PV204) problem - anyone bought one of these?

Hi all,

Bought one of these last week, but on testing it out found that there was a bit of a problem when playing back a recording - small dropouts in the sound were obvious. I took it back and got a replacement, but this one seems to be the same - I even bought some brand new tapes to test it. Admittedly, the last tape I tried seemed to come out better than some of the older tapes, but if it`s going to be that sensitive I don`t know if it`s worth having. I mainly bought it to run a SCART through so I could watch DVDs on a portable TV in the spare room, but all the same I`d like it to record reasonably OK.
If anyone`s had one of these, I`d be interested to hear if that`s just what they`re like, or if I`ve just been unlucky with two machines in a row. Obviously, it`s only a budget mono VCR, but I thought the sound should be a bit better than that. I might return it and get the Sanyo that Asda are doing for around £40, but I`m not really planning on spending much more on a VCR.

Thanks in advance...

Dazza.

hi well i hve had one of thease video recorders for about 3 years maybe more only problems i have with it is that some times it wont except the videos and comes up with error an message it has recently however developed a terrible noise when it rewinds i have no other problems with it. it is in use 24/7 i use it for cctv
mrdee11091 (paul)

paul

i bought one and took it back with in days...found it too noisey when operating...in fact tried a phillips for the same sort of price from argos and returned that as well.... in the end paid a few quit more and got the dvd/video comi from kwiksave...all in all not a bad machine

phil

Hi

My neighbour has a Pacific PV204 which has developed a fault Er. 03 but apparently it doesn`t mention it in the manual. I think she said it doesn`t accept the tape. How did you fix your problem?