Maxell High Grade T-120 VHS Tape

Premium high-grade videotape

Top Positive Review

I still use my 15-year-old Panasonic VCR for recording TV shows to watch later (especially useful to record interesting/entertaining PBS shows during pledge week, so that you can skip by the “pledge ads” while watching the program). It’s not that easy to find places that carry VHS tapes these days — I really like Amazon’s large selection. Maxell makes great tapes — again: good product, excellent price.

Top Critical Review

I have used Maxell tapes for 30+ years so I was surprised at the exceptionally poor quality of these tapes. The 8-hour tapes are equally as bad as these 6-hour ones. They are now made in Korea instead of formerly in Canada and that might have something to do with the serious decline in quality. After 1-4 uses the picture rolls on the screen and cannot be resolved with tracking controls, there are severe dropouts and the tape mechanism makes so much noise that I honestly thought that my VCR was destroyed and I would have to buy a new one. I checked some of my other new Maxell tapes and most of them had the same results. I tried a TDK tape and was relieved to find that my VCR was still functioning perfectly so I threw out all of my new Maxells and am now using TDK and Sony tapes, which work just fine. I am so disappointed in Maxell but I guess they don’t care about VHS tape quality anymore.

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