I remembered having a top loader VCR I bought at a church yard sale for only $5 back in 2007, and after digging through personal pictures to see what it was, I found this VCR!! That thing was a beast! It was my first ever VCR I recorded on the LP mode, and it was so friggin' satisfying too! It worked when I first got it, although two years later, I accidentally dropped a toothpick when I was in the eject mode and when I got it out of there, the VCR crinkled my tape (weirdly on one side only) and since I didn't know how to fix VCRs at the time, I ended up tossing it unfortunately and got a Magnavox VCR/DVD Recorder to replace it with. Only thing that works on it now is the DVD recorder. Consider that thing lucky it has a digital antenna input so it's still a little bit useful LOL! I miss that Sylvania. Now I got a reason to watch this again ROFL🤣

Very interesting to see this. We had the exact same VCR in the Magnavox variety and I can vividly recall every one of those sounds from my childhood. My parents used to rent videos every weekend.

I have one of these machines and it has a better pictuere then the modern vcrs

The fact that it lasted that long- and was in service all that time is amazing. Did the Sylvania ever break down?

I was watching this to see how you got the top off of it, but your video skipped right past that part. I have a Panasonic PV-1220 and I can't get the top off of it. There only seems to be two screws on the back that hold it in place, and after removing them, the right-hand side of the top (the side farthest from the top-loading mechanism) will easily slide back and lift up but the left-hand side will barely move. I can only get it to slide back maybe 1/8" no matter how hard I pull on it, which isn't enough to unlock it from the tabs so you can pull it up to remove it. I've already removed the cover of the top-loading mechanism in case that was somehow interfering, but that didn't make any difference at all.

Did you ever get this running again? Where did you pick up the belt kit ?