vhs

I am a collector of TV shows. I have 30+ tapes filled with TV shows that I recorded. I've recorded on several different brands, including Panasonic, Sony, and Maxell. The Panasonic tapes played back terribly. Sony gave me a little trouble but not much. Maxell gave me no trouble, but they're hard to find in my area. So TDK is my choice. It has never given me trouble, it is readily available, I can tape in EP with almost no quality loss. A note to other collectors and/or fans of TV, if you ever want to tape a TV program, TDK tapes will never let you down.

Those who are said they got the wrong tapes need to do a little more research. JR didn't send you the wrong tapes...Revue tapes are standard grade tapes.

What is misleading is that TDK markets them with the term "premium quality", but they are still standard grade tapes.

The tapes (in order of increasing quality) are:
Revue - "Standard Grade"
HS - "High Standard" grade
Vivid - "High Grade"
EHG - "Extra High Grade"
...and they go up from there.
I'm not supposed to post a url, so do a google search for TDK's website using the following search criteria "tdk recmedia vhs" and you will get detailed information regarding these tapes.

I love taping TV programs and have many tapes full of them. But I've been especially impressed with TDK tapes. The picture and sound quality are great, even in EP mode (which extends to 8 hours on these tapes, so you can get more stuff on them). Plus they have very high durability. I've tried many different brands (TDK, Sony, Maxell and Panasonic, which turned out to be the worst) but TDK has made me the happiest.