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Originally Posted by themaster1
Panasonic are known for " capacitor leaks" and need recap more often than not while JVC's are most of the time "ready to go" with light cleaning.
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Both brands can have cap issues, depends on the age and model. In both cases it tends to be late 80s/early-mid 90s models that often suffer from bad ones in both power supply and video circuitries depending on model. (and also on audio boards in some early 90s jvcs). Some of the very late models of both brands (NV-SV12x for panasonic, very late SVHS combo models for JVC) have power supply filter caps that fail.
It just happens that the more popular JVC SVHS decks here are from the era that largerly did not have cap issues. The early 90s ones aren't much better than the panasonic models from the same era that are more popular when it comes to bad caps.
Of the models in the first post the NV-HS860 would be the most safe in that regard. (HS900 might be fine too but it seems much less common so don't know as much about it.)
