Ghoosssss DVcam priced about 3400$........wonder what pic produced........aahhhhhhh my Betamy

I do my Motorola 9800 AMPS battery few years ago......and also made a Car lighter adapter...pity the machine doesnt work any longer since.

I love my AMPS.......Beep Beep Beep sounds like she's next to you.

What's up with all the spammers trying to sell me Windows XP all of the sudden? Last month they were trying to dump Norton Works and Photoshop at "85% off retail!"

I don't even have a damned Windoze machine!

_@_¼¼ - eee! NASA colour moon camera with colour wheel disk

http://www.tvhistory.tv/NASA-MARK-V-open.JPG

http://www.tvhistory.tv/NASA-MARK-V-Camera.htm

The official mod sixties TV set of 'The Gobbler Hotel' http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html?

http://www.tvhistory.tv/KK.JPG

German 'Kuba Komet' console set

Ooops that Gobbler Hotel link should be http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html

It remembers me of that frustrated lady at the store complaining about these "enlarge your manhood" spams and she was yelling "I don't have a damned penis !!!"

Well if the stuff is any good won't you be at risk of growing a penis out of the hand you use to apply the stuff?

And could you go around the country pouring the stuff on the ground growing penises out of the ground like a modern day Johnny Penis-seed?

Does anyone have a spare,(or will copy)SL-HF1000 super beta vcr Users Manual? Would be much appreciated. JK

No, because all the stuff does is enlarge what's already there. Wonder what would happen if we poured it onto a 2000mie... Would it turn into a u-matic?

Probably just turn it into an SLO-260... Which is a Betamax built to Umatic standards, basically.... I don't want to know what you'd get if you put it on a 2" quadruplex machine....

Another pic for reference....

http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~general/beta-sl-ex7.jpg

Eeeeeee Frencess havent seen for a while........heueuheuee

I thought it was SLO

http://www45.tok2.com/home/etoile/SVO-260.htm

But the page is kind a neat one

Help! My EDV-9500 has stopped responding to remote commands on both VTR 1 and 2. What would cause this and how do I fix it? Thanks!

~Scott

sounds like an incurable flaw. Send it to the Wards Home and we'll make sure it has a nice place to live! :D :))

ooo0 god haha the quadruplex!!!! Have you read that story in Stephen King's "Night Shift," it's the one about the giant clothes folder at the laundry plant that turns evil and at the end it grows really really huge and starts eating people in town, hahaha! That's what the quadruplex would do!

http://www45.tok2.com/home/etoile/image/SVO-260_7.jpg is that metal strip that touches the middle of the drum for grounding purposes?

I'm not sure, but I'd guess that's what that is... My friend Rich would know.

Yes, that prevents static buildup which shows up as sparkle in the video.

sean I'm quite fuzzy as to what the quadruplex looks like, do you have a picture of one? or is there a page where I can read about it? For some reason today I feel like some "heavy" reading, LOL. Eeeee!!! I'm also unsure: does an EMP destroy magnetic media such as tapes, disks, etc or does it just destroy circuits? Will tube equipment fry too, even though it doesn't have microchips?

I'd say ESD only destroy ICs as the junctions are so small the current generated by an ESD spike becomes significant. I guess it would take quite a bolt to destroy a vacuum tube.

I can't see what it would do to a magnetic tape as the current has to discharge through a conductive body. A tape could carry a charge though.

EMP will first empty out electronic memory before it kills circuits outright, then it will kill ICs, solid state tech, and if there's enough of a blast to kill a tube, you're dead too. If you want to look at 2" quadruplex, Quaudruplex park has a vast inventory of these machines. http://www.lionlmb.org/quadpark.html

eeeeee! Now I want one! Or the Ampex D2 thing, haha!!! What exactly is the air supply for? I don't get it... :(

Vaccuum-assisted transport! Reduces tape wear & stretch, increases precision, etc. Old computer tape drives used it too, that's why they used to "Burp & fart". All REALLY good videotape machines used it, like the IVC-9000, etc, but Quadruplex needed it to bend the tape around the curved path, if you follow me.

_@_v - eeee! another sleechy jappy §eta page!...

http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~general/14beta-1.htm

_@_v - 'vintage panasonic nv-5110 portable §eta vcr'

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3031503485

_@_v - i've seen at the total rewind site mention of a panasonic cartridge-based video format with a similar piccy

http://www.hypernova.co.uk/total_rewind/pre-hist/A_main.htm

_@_v - and this dutch fellow has one in his collection

http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/studio2.html

_@_v - i'd be very surprised if anyone has tapes to feed this strange beastie

For Olive Thomas,

This videorecorder Panasonic NV-5110 isn't Beta, but name's system videocartridge (plastic color white) is "a-Vision" also Hitachi "Video-a" the market japanese in the 1973.

Here, You see: http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~tinei/catvtr.htmlNice pictures also first vcr Sony Betamax (!), but is language japanese.

Bye

Didnt I post that Jappy page weeks ago........

EEEEEEEE! I HAVE THAT 8-TRACK! The one at the bottom of the dutch page!!! It is sooo cool! Too bad that the cheap little thing that holds the head down has broken and is not properly aligned.. so I hear tracks 2 1/2 and 3 when I should be hearing 2.....

Ugh... that is not a nice problem for 8-track decks to have... fortunately I have a nice Panasonic Deck that came NIB and works a treat. Had a Sears all-in-one machine that had an 8-track but what it needed a pen jammed in the slot to play properly...

Funny, I still got this RatShack Realistic 8-track deck w/ Dolby. Finally secured some NOS blanks for it and recorded a couple of CDs. OK, but the sound limitations really stand out on my Sony ES/Polk system. There was also setting the CD track timing right so I could get as many tracks in as I could on each channel before it switched.

_@_v - eeee! i was being sorta sarcastic in quoting the line description of that panasonic '§eta'.

_@_v - just wanted to note an interesting find that had made it's way into the §eta v.c.r. listings and maybe see what info was out there on the li'l critter...

this is just too funny...

http://www.rightwingnews.com/creatures.jpg

Brought to you by PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals

Be a vegetarian by proxy - Feed veggies to a critter, then EAT THE CRITTER!!!

Is this supposed to be the greek letter beta you use when you write "beta" ??

Here it looks like some sort of two 's' imbricated one in the other.

Why don't you use a standard 'b' instead ?

ergahs! Well, I'm really turned off to Polk audio because of the crapass speakers they included with our HP computer. Worst pieces of crud I've ever heard; I could have sworn I was listening to music at a drive through. Now, get an Altec Lansing 221... That thing's subwoofer really packs a punch!

Maybe they stink at computer speakers, but my Polks are real audiostack type and sound sweet. My PC has a Cambridge Soundworks PC Works 5.1 and its little shoebox-sized sub has a nice punch. Listening to my favorite Live365 station right now. ;)

Yeah, I've got the Cambridge Soundworks Speakers too... not those big advanced ones, though. They ALL sound nice, however... Pack-in computer speakers are rarely anything worth writing about, Jesse. Say, anyone ever see the proper speakers for an HFT-7?

built-in speakers on the Apple AV monitor

Are you saying they're bad or good??? Waaaay back in grade school we had Macs that were all built into one case, and as I remember, we had trouble getting the volume up to satisfactory levels...

_@_v - this really dates me but lemmie toss in this memory grenade and see who it hits....

_@_v - remember those 'schoolhouse rock' cartoon things they used to stick in during the commercial breaks back in the day?...

_@_v - can you sing along to these?

_@_v -"conjucntion junction... what's your function?"

_@_v - "but i'm still just a bill..."

_@_v - "electricity eee-lec-tri-city!!!"

Well you're not THAT bad, Olive :) I remember the first two, but I never had the sense to tape them. I think they're a regularly available item, however. Perhaps even on Beta.

_@_v - "rare sl-10 superbetamax vcr"

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3031621991

_@_v - "considered by some to be a very rare model"... looks like this guy has one beta ad template and is gonna keep using it...

_@_v - that is still the stupidest most meaningless sounding item description and repitition makes it even dumber.

_@_v - needless to say, i hope he never quits using it....

Adding a few more to Schoolhouse Rock: My Hero Zero & Three is a Magic Number

_@_v - i remember seeing something on mtv back in the mid-90s about a cd of 'schoolhouse rock' tunes by various artists. i wonder if anyone ever taped any of those schoolhouse rock bits...

I have those Schoolhouse Rock 'episodes' all run off on 8mm tape (gave the best picture of all when copying from DVD). I think I'll go back and get the DVD again, though, now that I can dub them directly using DVD XCOPY.. :)

8-track again? After a dozen plays most of them sound worse than QuickTime.

I can post my e-dress because I'm killing it forever next week. Spam that one.

What's with that Ebay auction Olive posted...the SL-10's not even a Superbeta as the seller claims. Ah..Ahh.Ahhh...RIPOFF!

Hi all.........I just blew my loading motor...

Funny how that Canadian seller with the SL-10 'SuperBeta' has a lot of Nintendo set up on offer. Wasn't there a Canadian shill bidder with several lots of Nintendo outfits that got kicked off a couple times?

Yeah... there was. Say Franny, I'm curious. Did "Nintendo" exist in Germany? I know it never did officiall in Russia, but a pirate system called "Dendi" existed there...

Hey, Whatever happened to Watchdog man? I guess now Olive and Sean are taking over the ebay watch.. I used to enjoy his posts on a daily basis

_@_¼¼ - Nintendo Systems are almost everywhere but see for yourself...

http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=Nintendo&shortcut=4&maxRecordsPerPage=100&category1=8345&combine=y&st=0&SortProperty=MetaNewSort&tc=allcategory

_@_¼¼ - the same for Atari

http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=Atari

_@_¼¼ - and for Commodore computers

http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=Commodore

Am an African film maker with interest in purchasing used cameras at cheap rates is there a way any of you guys can help me with getting to buy online and getting them shipped to Africa.

3,6,9....12,15,18...21,24,27... .30.

I LOVE Schoolhouse Rock!

_@_v - eeee! brenda! if you do get that schoolhouse rock d.v.d. i'd love a sleechy copy on beta or 8mm...

_@_v - eeee! by the way, tv-land is running a square pegs marathon tonite!

_@_v - square pegs, square pegs,, square pegs, square.... square.... pegs!!!!

_@_v - i have the theme on mp3 loaded to my Yahoo Groupsite for the 2 or 3 people who remember the show...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheBetamaxVideographer/files/Waitresses-Square_Pegs.mp3

To the aspiring African film-maker. Realistically unless you have a source for tapes and batteries and can inspect prospective equipment directly you're probably better off getting a cheap Hi-8mm camcorder rather than anything Beta. I've seen Hi-8 cameras at Walmart (they're everywhere!) listed brand-new for a couple hundred Euros.

Of course Digital fairly cheap. Get a DV cam with Firewire and an iBook with Final Cut Pro and you're practically the next Stephen Spielberg...

Help please! I have a sizeable beta tape archive which is developing green-white dusty mould on the tape packs. Anyone out there know how to clean it off safely & prevent the mould from returning?Many thanks, Grant ShanksSydney Australia

another rare Beta NTSC

http://www.age.ne.jp/x/tknr/hf_gazou.html

This time the Host turn the Deck Upside-down

http://www45.tok2.com/home/etoile/SL-F11.htm

Most adorable Betamach.......

http://www.waseda.jp/itc/services/av/16G404.html

Grant, what kind of environment are they being kept in? I had a u-matic tape with this kind of mould; I just ran it through a dead unit (worn, worn heads) back and forth and it was fine; no more mould. I suppose here in Texas where it's almost always dry we don't have to worry about mould. That u-matic tape was from New England area, so I suppose it was mouldy because of humidity. I don't know if the mould will return though after the windinng. Does the mold affect playback quality? I didn't notice anything.

Seeing that picture of the SL-F11 (aka SL-2500), I notice a symbol on the cassette well door. Looks almost like an infinity symbol, but not quite. Seen the same symbol on the SL-HF750 and on the Aiwa AV-70. Sort of like: (¯ _). What is it?

I think it's the "Cassette is inside" warning. The SLO-1400 has a red flag that pops up, and the SL-2700 has a silver plate that says "Cassette inside" but mine doesn't work.

My Betamie 100 has that sign [ "(- _)" ] on its door. Also, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3031627142&category=21168 a wannabe EDV-9500, LOL .... " Rosewood sides" too bad VCRgarysnail has it in his clutches.

just LOOK what this IDIOT said!!! http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/6099179.htm thats the article and look what these IDIOTS are saying http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum9/5099.htm and THIS is what he said "Five or 10 years from now, we are going to look back at the current state of Web search and be embarrassed, like we are now when we look back at old technologies like betamax VCRs and 8-track tapes,'' said Gary William Flake, overture's chief science officer. " !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you walk to work or carry your lunch? The guy was simply putting his foot in his mouth. He didn't know, most likely, that the two technologies were seperated by nearly two decades, and, while both are now old, at their peak, 8-tracks were not the height of technology but simply a way to get a job done, whereas Betamax was generally the height of consumer videotape machines when it comes to picture & sound quality and also features.

_@_v - eepers! the idea that companies are paying a fee to get on the top of some web search engine's results is gonna make me not want to use that search engine...

_@_v - like the way yahoo steers it's news search results to the new york slimes where they want you to pay them 3 bux just for the privilege of looking at some article of theirs.

_@_v - even before the new york slimes blew their crediblity with their 'star' reporter (who'd fit in at the weekly world news nicely) i'd long despised their online news system and it's insistance that you hand them more personal information than the fbi, cia or nsa ask for when you visit their sites so they can send you an assload of spam just to look at anything at their crummy site...

_@_v - i'd love to be in a postion where i could stick it to them bigtime...

But still, I don't care if he was just "putting his foot in his mouth..." It gets me infuriated to hear stupid comments like that; I guess you could say I'm very devoted to the Beta format, LOL. :)

Dear All,

I'm desesperatly seeking the BETACAM system recorder referenced SONY SL-F1.

I would appreciate and consider each offer.

Best regards

I am looking for a the instruction/owners booklet for a sony betamax slf -30 Pal machine.an anyone help??

I think the guy just meant these technologies are more or less useless today compared to what they were in their prime time. It's got nothing to do with the quality of the technology.

Still using my Beta for the job it was made for and don't see any reason why it can't keep doing it's job till it finally dies.

I agree with Franny; Something that can still do its job to an acceptable degree has no real reason to be removed from service if its user is satisfied. I'm quite satisfied with my major Betas and see no need to discontinue there use.

There's a ton of bull. I won't use his search engine any time soon. I'll stick to Google! And really, I love my beta collection and would never give it up! Hell, I didn't give up my record collection 12 or so years ago just because CD's were killimg 'em off! How many people out there are going crazy for Atari and such stuff?

At least Google has the decency to put adverts that might associate with your search off to the corner.

I always get a laugh at the little box that invites you to search for a book about whatever you've punched in at Amazon or whereever...

"find books about 'molecular reflux reactions in electro-carbonised aluminium nodules' at Amazon.com"

"find the best price on 'molecular reflux reactions in electro-carbonised aluminium nodules' at BestDeal.com

Let the record show that a Google search for "molecular reflux reactions in electro-carbonized aluminium nodules" resulted in two adverts for acid reflux treatments...

Wow, Franny, you boggled its little computer mind!

I changed the spelling of "aluminium" to the American "aluminum" and that seemed to help matters a bit. Got a sponsored link to the 'Aluminum Store' an online architectural sheet-aluminium sales firm as well as the two acid reflux ones...

You know what they say, franny; "To err is human, it takes a computer to really f*** things up".

I've heard the one about "Garbage In -> Garbage Out" where when you put garbage in you get garbage out but with a computer the output garbage is somehow 'enoblised' and people accept it without question...

Re: Garbage in... If something is repeated often enough it becomes "the truth" but just stick it on a web page and some search engine will speed up the process.

My point will be proven shortly.

VHS LOST THE FORMAT WAR.

Actually, VHS DID lose the format war. It lost it to (sic) DVD..

Have you heard about this example of computer logic? A man wanted to buy a watch and was looking at two,one was broken and could not be fixed,the other would be accurate to one second per year.Which one should he buy?The computer told him to buy the broken watch, because it would give him the correct time twice a day.

Anyone out there have any of the following I want to purchase: (Unit must be working but exterior condition and remote control irrelevant) :

Ideally one of : Sony Betamax SL-C30, Sony SL-C9 ,SL-C40, SLF -30, SLF-60.

Second Choice:

If not one of the above then any later front loading machine that still gives good picture quality and has its video and audio outputs working. Auto tracking would also be preferred if possible.

Well I do not believe any Beta had auto tracking... the only one I know about was the NTSC model SL-HF-2100, a rather over-rated (But still excellent) SuperBeta HiFi deck. Franny would know for sure if there was ever a PAL beta with auto tracking, but don't count on it. I've found, however, that betas seem to almost "Auto-track" on there own, even if they don't have auto tracking or anything like that, they jus are very good at cleaning up errors.

Hi,

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Ghostbusters vcr Zenith Beta portable?http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3032021818&indexURL=5&photoDisplayType=2#ebaylargephotohosting

Why vcr Beta Sony is broken? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3032179018&category=39830

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Bye

Are you suggesting Beta is superior to DVD ??

How about VHS vs. DVD ?? What do you think ??

Off the topic;

Garbage In -> Garbage Out or GIGOterm is usually associated with CMOS techno or commonly in flowcharting basics.Some of them designed in Logic circuitry from very simple up to Array of dimension in similarity.

For Ortodox sample is just Yes or No / 1 or 0 as result.

That's from me.........

Well a while back the folk at the nearby GE research lab were demonstating the latest Artificial Intellegence/Voice Recognition project to the local media. The proud scientists bade the reporters to come up with any sort of question and their supercomputer would have the answer.

Well the reporters did their best to come up with challenging questions but the computer said nothing - not even to indicate it got the question. The tech guy got worried and started pulling boards to see if they could sort out the problem. As it turned out some chip got installed the wrong way making it the stupidest computer on the face of the earth.

The media people all started packing to leave grumbling on how the scientist had gone and wasted their time. "Hey stuporcomputer! Thanks for wasting our day! We're outta here!", yelled one of the camera guys...

Suddenly the computer lit up and yelled back, "Y'all come back now y'hear!"

You mean it didn't say "42"????

No, it was designed by the ship of nerds.

Eeeee Brenda did ya get my mail and ICQ num

but i aint get yours.........?

_@_v[:::::[]]==---| - eeee! who was lookin for an sl-f1? found this sleechy one on eeeee-bay with the ah-220 carry handle!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3334220474

can you hear me now? good! - _@_v[:::::[]]==---| <-my snail-kia 'shell'-phone

What else would you put on top of a HFR-100?

http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_2635b31125f918bd93d9545af91b19e3/i-1.JPG

a stack of $1000 bills or the keys to a millenia S :)

hee heee! SL-F1amie! I want the handle for my 2000amie, lol... :( Can someone replace the cammy fuze and the batty leads on mine because they don't work now; the batty leads have to be pressed really hard against the connection so it will work. Plus I need new screws for the case. :( Poor frankenmie...

Speaking of fuse I found a Transistor shape kinda terminator. Really good safety device wich can be found in many Beta.

I just replace it and everything works out.One brilliant idea of many splendid Inventions.