Find out why VHS was better than Beta...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,881780,00.html

_@_v - well tape time or picture quality isn't all that much of an 'issue' for me. what matters is Beta's faster transport response time. I rarely make unattended recordings and prefer Beta's transport abilittes when i'm taping out a show's commercials.

_@_v -especially if I'd blown the intro cue and have to quickly stop, go back and set up for the right cue before the show i'm taping comes back from commercial...

_@_v - VHS - even the machines that keep the tape lace up - just takes too long...

Hey Jesse, I have an SL-2000 I don't need, it's hall effect motor wont' work but all the parts you need are in good working order... Want to pay or trade? and you can give me back my $24 since you did something else with the SL-HF-300

_@_v - eeee! i see someone has 'sleeched' some of JSparkin's site pix for their eeee-bay auction...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3032498144

_@_v - SL-HF 950ES from germany

thanks for reminding me!! I had completely forgotten~! Sorry :( http://ebay1.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_a9d827e9b794128efdb0723b54360a5d/i-4_B_L.JPG EEE HEE! MY type of control panel!! makes it looks nice n complicated! Also, check back at that forum I posted a while back to see what I told those idiots. Sean, I'm just too tired of taking apart things to do a board switch on my 2000amie. Yee! I should have also told them about the fast beta transport; I especially agree with Franny's example.

I love my 300's timer record feature (Except for the fact that come a minor brownout it forGEts everything), it stops and starts right on a dime! Tell it to start at 11:59 and it starts exactly at 11:59, LOL, with no 30 second or so lag like the Spamsung used to do.

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Asshole

why?

The best timer unit on a Beta is found on the SL-2710 where you punch-in start / stop times and channels with numeric keypad instead of going with +/- buttons. It also started right on time. But any slightly serious timer should do that, even on a VHS. Perhaps you set the clock 30 seconds too late ??

http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/latinopikachu/lst?.dir=/Snails&.order=&.view=l&.src=bc&.done=http%3a//briefcase.yahoo.com/ hehehhehe look at my snailie pics!

No, the Spamsung took its sweet time to spin up and init itself, I guess. The clock was always right...

oops, that link above is bad, use this one http://briefcase.yahoo.com/latinopikachu

_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼ - eeeee! let's get his betas!

¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_¼¼_@_ - run away!!! run away!! ......(::))mortons)

Finally have what it takes to admit I dont' know what Mortons/Mortrons are... Since we're usually so nice and try to explain our confusing snail argot to people who come here, perhaps someone could explain that one to ME...

what is the market for betamax? for the past 13yrs my parents have had a betamax hooked up to the tv, and i dont think they've ever used it. it is a Sony SL-S600 in pristine mint condition. whats the value on it? if i were to sell it, where would i? thanks!

Sean...

Never bought salt, have you? Morton's is the biggest selling brand of salt in the country. Their slogan is "When it rains, it pours" with a picture of a girl holding an umbrella on the label.

Here's one for the multi-system fans...

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Just went back on that webmasterworld.com forum Jesse. It shows that you did not understand very much of what was said in the article. At the time the product went out on the market there was no L-750 tapes and no BII speed. That's the whole point behind the "only 1-hour" issue. Somehow I'm sure Beta is for you more of a novelty than a product you use for the sake of quality. Just like u-matic for example.

I also find it funny that people always trash DVDs in here then tells how "good" DVD-to-Beta dubs are !

This is only my humble opinion which if you can remark doesn't make use of terms such as STUPID and IDIOT to express disagreement to one's own opinion.

Brenda... Oh, I see. I had seen it missspelled as "Mortron" so I though it was some science fiction refference like some fierce critter like a Dalek. Ooops. At any rate, regarding the DVD-Beta dubs, When people talk about how bad DVD looks, they're discussing individual errors that are on some discs. Because DVD is digital, it's easier to have errors or low quality. When we transfer DVD-Beta, we're talking about the generational quality loss, which will be low on a good format like Beta. This has to do with the dubbing format, not the one we dub from, because the quality of that doesn't matter, it's how well the record deck retains that quality, whatever it is, that counts.

_@_v - Just so you know Betamax isn't a 'novelty' in my video environment. It's alive and doing very well thank you...

_@_v~ - spblblblblt!

_@_v - And Betamax didn't stay a 1 hour format for very long. By at least 1977 Sony had brought out the X2 speed SL-8200 and SL-8600 and SL-3000 VCRs and by 1979 the BIII speed SL-5400. If Sony had been able to come out with a reliable L-1000 tape in 1980 (and kept in the BI record speed) the format war might've lasted a little longer.

_@_v - Sony should've also put in better tuners in their Betas especially the ones with all-electronic tuning. There was no earthly reason to have a meager 14 presets and VHF tuning that ends at cable channel 36 if you can build a decent 125 cable - 75UHF channel tuner like Sony was able to do for the SL-2710 and SL-HF 600 and some other high end Betas.

_@_v - Since I have a Sony VHS deck with full cable tuning capacity that's not a very big problem for my SL-HF 360.

IMHO the timer on the Sony 900 and similar, with the jog shuttle control, are the easiest to set. I can set a timer recording in 18 seconds.

erfems.. Well Beta isn't a novelty in my house, and I do appreciate the quality. I exclusively use Beta for my taping needs. My VHS deck is only used as a tuner, so I can get true stereo audio to the 300 and make quality recordings. U-mie is sort of more a novelty, I guess, because I don't have a recorder (yet) and very few tapes.

Olive: Yeah, I agree, since the recording times were one of the more obvious differences between Beta and VHS, and of the early VCRs Beta did have the shortest time, VHS having 2 hours, as did VX (Quasar) and V-cord II. But that was fixed, in short order, and Beta eventually beat those other formats (Even though VX might have looked as good, and V-cord II was four heads like the SL-5800.) I use my betas a lot, for all sorts of stuff. since the most I can get on an 8mm tape is 2 hours, the GCS-1 has an immediate advantage over the CCD-V110, although they both look the same (I think it was the same image sensor technology, if not the same image sensor). I agree about the tuners, I've had trouble with Sony's solid-state tuners on there high end decks (the entire RF section of my old SL-HF-1000 died, pretty much, and my 900s RF modulator is very poor indeed, and the RF modulator in my SLO-323 was dead when I got it (fortunately that's a replaceable commodity). But since I have a cable box that outputs HiFi stereo audio at line level, I don't need the use RF for much anymore.

Re: Betamax tuners, before about 1982 cable systems were not built to carry any signal abouve 300mHz. The equipment was never designed to do so because anything beyond a 36-channel universe was unimaginable. Cable had a low % subscribers because there was almost nothing available on it that couldn't be picked up for free with something called a 300-ohm VHF/UHF antenna that we used to get from Radio Shack (amplifier optional). http://www.radioshack.com/images/ProductCatalog/ProductImage/15/15-2156.jpg

The varactor tuner with 14 user-preset buttons was considered a great improvement over the original rotary tuners which tended to need rebuilding every few years. TV's and VCR's switched to varactor tuners when low-priced IC versions were developed.

When Ted Turner brought C-band signals to a cable system near you, every mile of cable and every distribution amp had to be replaced in order to get all these new choices to the consumer. Finally there was a reason to get cable into the average house, and finally a reason to develop the quartz-synthesized 125-channel tuners we all take for granted. This all came together in the mid-80's when many of you were watching Care Bears for the first time. Only a few Betamax models came with these 125-channel tuners because the technology was not available until the last dozen or so Betamax models hit the market.

Novelty?? Novelty-smovelty! Beta is quite alive and well in this boiz pad! I've built me quite a large library of new(er) films on beta using DVDs and Betacam tapes for high quality, hifi-surround tapes. Hell, I've recently been adding some favorite TV-show (i.e. Buffy S4, most recent) collections from the "seasonal" DVD boxsets (quite a nice way to use up this huge load of BC-10's I've acquired). In fact, I've coined a term for this: I don't "dupe" a DVD, I "B'max" it! ;)

Guess the tuners on some of my decks are cheezy, but I never use 'em anyhow. If there's not a DVD players connected, then a DirectTV receiver. Always via the A/V's (no RF stuff here) using highest-quality interconnects.

Madness, I can't help but laugh now. Sony orriginally referred to the process of recording on Betamax as "Betamaxing". I can't believe the utter coincidence that you did that, so I'm guessing you subconsciously remembered that advertising campaign (Perhaps you were there for it, I wasn't, but I read about it.) and the phrase crossed the threshold to your conscious mind, and now you've started using it.

At any rate, I don't consider Beta to be a an ammusing novelty. Actually, IMNTBHO (In My Never-To-Be-Humble Opinion) the new TV recoding apparatus that lets you pause, rewind, record, and otherwise fiddle with live TV broadcasts is an "Ammusing novelty", yet to prove its acceptance or true utility.

Well, I don't "dupe" a DVD, I buy it! ;)

I buy DVD when i like the movie ie Solaris/Nemesis/007/Enemy of the state/Solaris/Hollow Man/Terminator2 or Bee Gees.

i used to host a tv program which my wife recorded on beta-max. well now they can't be played...which is probably no great loss but i'm getting some pressure to have the recordings transfered to something modern like vhs or cd? does anyone know of a service where i can send beta-max tapes and get back vhs tapes or even better cd's.. thanks in advance john p

erfies I agree with Sean about the Tivo being an amusing novelty, because I want my video stored in raw data, not compressed like it is with the DVR. Secondly, I'd rather Betamax the rental DVD for $4 instead of going out and spending $21 or so on a DVD. I don't care if DVD recorders replace VTRs in most people's homes, I'm going to stick with Beta until I can no longer get the machine repaired. At least the Beta is ignorant to any copy-prevent codes they may place in future broadcasts so the DVD-R doesn't record it.

Apart from going on eBay and getting another Beta VCR (even with all the dealersnails it's not all that expensive) you can look in the Yellow Pages for Video Duplication Services. There's usually a bunch of people in almost every city that can copy a Beta tape to VHS or DVD or VCD.

_@_v - eeeee! lv-1901/sl-6200 combo tv-/vcr!

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_@_v - for a mere $250 start....

does anybody have any betamaxes 4 sale ie-sony c5 or above sanyopreferably in uk [leeds] as ihave 286 betacam tapes many top films thanks steve

Other things than blockiness we should be concerned about digital video...

http://www.igknighttec.com/DMCA/dmca.php

Steve, do you mean Betamax (Consumer) tapes or Betacam (Pro) tapes??? There is a difference, you know. the PALsite itself can tell you the difference, having pages for each type of tape.

Hey Jesse, I've got one of those SLV-R5UCs that you posted an auction for. It really is a great deck, arguably the best consumer-level VHS-based VCR ever built. It's one helluva editor, and it does wonders when it comes to reducing generation loss. I can edit from my camcorder to the R5, then copy to another VHS deck, and it's the only VCR I have that can make a 3rd generation copy look good.

Hi. I live in Adelaide South Australia(Glengowrie more specifically) and I am looking for someone local(or anyone else who may be interested that isn't on the other side of the world)who would be interested in buying 47 recordable beta tapes and 9 pre-recorded tapes. I am getting rid of it because video technology is no longer interesting to me and I have already sold all my vcrs. Name your price for this gear. Contact by email only. [email protected].

Please help me somebody!!

I am looking for a cover (or flap) to cover the clock buttons on a Sanyo VTC M40. Mine is missing and it drives me mad!! Does anybody have one, or a scrap machine that I can purchase?

Thanks in advance for any helpKevin

erfems I know how you feel, LOL! The 300 used to annoy the hell out of me before I hid in in the network enclosure it's in now. The smoked plastic front looks cool, LOL! __@**-~

http://www.cedmagic.com/ just published an article on how to install a transparent top on later model players. I wonder what kind of estethic mods could be done to Beta VCRs? Remember the RCA transparent television that was around, I think, from the 30 's???

Jesse, this may interrest you.

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_@_v - lummy nummy!!!!!

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_@_v - complete GCS-50 editing system. at $900 bux start it's a bit on the highish side though...

WANTED: MANUAL FOR SONY SL-HF840D AND SL-HF600. DOES ANYONE HAVE THIS FOR SALE? PLEASE EMAIL US AT [email protected]. WE ARE ALSO ALWAYS INTERESTED IN PURCHASING BETA VCRS...EX...SL-HF2100, SL-HF2000, SL-HF860,SL-HF840D, SL-HF600. LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING. THANKS

_@_¼¼ - wow! the dealersnails are getting aggresive if they're posting here for stuff to sleech...

_@_¼¼ - i wonder if THE snail ever wanders in here...

THE BETA REFFLECTION. 2003: **************25 years of betamax in Europe************* (26 in Japan and the USA)

I'd like you all to read this article I've written, exclusively for our chat.

In 1978 (approx.) the betamax format was introduced in Europe by Sony. Between 1978 and 1989 Sony sony released a very important range of outstanding electronics: VCRs, HiFi components, televisions, cameras... which may be nearly compared to its professional partners, both inside and outside ( SL-C9 pendulum drive, SL-HF 950 cassette loading and inside technology, PCM encoders,...), applied to consomer range and specifications. With the release of the first Sony VHS decks, the beta format died. Sony continued offering this type of consomer-proffessional deivces during 1990-1992-1993. By 1993 lots of "2nd range marks" appeared offering "working" new electronics for a quite low price and this obligated Sony to gradually lose its exclusive high range of electornics. Now, Sony is a high-volume consomer electronics mark. It has lost absolutely its "essence" of that high quality deivces. Now, when someone decides to buya a video, he doesn't matter if it offers better quality and durability: vcrs like the actual Sony (SLV SE850, well I don't know the exact model number) and Funays or Orions or First Line vcrs give the same results. And also the constant changing model range. Catalogs are valid for a maximum perdiod of 6 months. The European 950 or the american 1000 lasted between 2 and 4 years. I must also say that SOny and other high range companies are leaving analog systems as obsolete. In 1999 sony was selling 15 or 16 different models of vcrs. Actually it offers only 3 or 4. After all this facts I think that beta format would have the same luck. Actually it would be almost disappearing and with lots of bad qualitiy videos, or wiht excxessive prices by now, because of Sony expensive patents. The same thing has happened with all type of high end electronics and devices like classic Marantz HiFi components, for example. It is applicable to all kinds of products: when something is affected by a massive production-demand its quality goes down. I compare these products with proffesssional products because they still in non- massified production. And I give a final reflection to all betaphiles,... all people who are members of this club (the beta club, hehehe). Imagine VHS disappeared this way like betas, how would the betamax format be by now? Would there be a VHS chat-page??? It's a good theme for our chat to discuss it. People, tell all of us how (better or worse) would be beta by now!

Give your opinion!!!

**********Regards to all**********

Well, personally, I think that there'da been a Beta-C format (gleech!! :( ), and that the Betas today would have been all cheap and plastic-filled... $39 at Wal-Mart for a mono one, like I saw today for a VHS. Why are they still selling mono VCRs? I think that we wouldn't feel as unique or special as we do today, and we wouldn't appreciate it as much as we do. We also wouldn't appreciate great old decks like the 300 and so on, and lots more Betamies would prolly wind up at Goodwill unused and unwanted. I think that it was better this way, even though things are getting hard to find we should be proud we're part of this "elite," special group.

And besides, who would want to start a VHS page.. It's nothing to be remembered, really.

_@_v - i'm sure we want to hand over all our hard-earned betas to soadv-snail to low-ball us with like a handful of shiny nickels (well you see betas aren't worth anything...) so he can flip them for like a g-note on e-bay.

_@_v - i actually know a legitimate beta user who needs an sl-hf 600 manual and remote if anyone has a spare...

_@_v - speak of the devilsnail that penny SL-HF 2000 is back up again...

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_@_v - does he EVER sell one of those?

_@_v - and here's a vintage p.a.l. bush beta-vision...

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_@_v - suppose our president bush had any money in that company?

eeeee.... LOL, poor devilspawnsnail. That new beta looks like the SL-5VRUC or whatever its model is.

Yes... I wonder if they'll every learn that that is not a reasonable selling price for that kind of deck... Probably never. A wise man learns from his mistakes, a fool repeats the same action again and again expecting a different outcome.

A wise man should never make mistake, a wise man should know what's he's doin'.A wise man loose to win. At last it's very unwise to loose again and again.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana...

Chicken kwok kwok kwok, dogs barks, these are creature.

Rain keeps falling in my head, even clouds are white.

Sun always rise from east and sets to west.

At billons of light years Sun meets Earth, that's the time God come to us.

In God we Trust

Franny, your sense of humor never ceases to delight me. You are truly a credit to this chat page.

At any rate, I've got one fo those SL-2700 decks too, and it's missing most of the front panels... what's up with that? I think it was some kind of fault with the glue or something like that.

Tell you what guys, I just FIX my loading Motor

I bougth the original motor for only 10 ☺;

I guess i keep my penny.

I have an old magnavox observation system....12" monitor that can have four cameras hooked to it...I have one camera and only half of a power cord.....the power cord also connects the video...it's weird and I don't know where to find an adapter...its a really old model....model #MC 3511 (camera)....I have no way to hook it up!! Does anyone know anything about this model? I would greatly appreciate it!

SB V3000

Yannow, that "soadv" guy on eBay must have a never-ending supply of HF2000's which he reserves somewhere around $ 800 ! I've seen him sell god knows how many of those over the passing months. IMO, if I wanted to blow $ 800 on a deck, I'd rather go for an HF1000, maybe an HF2100 or even an ED-Beta deck. But that's just me. :)

I agree, Madness, the HF-2000 isn't actively bad, it's just massively overpriced. I have no idea why, either. Even if it has a warranty, it's just not worth it... it's rediculous, unless you're just desperate to open a new, factory sealed Beta unit... MMmMmmMmmmmmm....

I just wanna open a brand new mint Betamie and SL-2000, and fill out the warranty card! :(

I've heard stories of old cars remaining under warranty because the warranty deed only had a mileage limit, not a time limit... some guy bought a used oldsmobile, I think, and it still had under 30, 000 miles, so the warranty, from back in the 50s, was still valid, except it wasn't transferrable... rats! Unfortunately, the warranty on VCRs is not workable like that... I think even the most extended warranty would have run out now...

Hi,

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Hi,

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I have a friend that has two very good Beta Machines and too many Beta Tapes. He would like to donate them to a Charity, Senior home or center, or some place where someone could enjoy them. Does anyone have a clue. Of course, he'd be willing to sell, and looking to send these to a worthy organization. Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

_@_v - not a good idea to stack a tv directly on top of a vcr. apart from the weight issuesthe video head can pick up magnetic interferience from the crt being directly overhead....

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_@_v - i can hear the poor vcr screaming "get it off me get it off me!".

_@_v - eeee! shameless image thief not only sleeches someone elses images but slaps their own logo on it so no-one else 'steals' from them?

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Funny how those pix almost look like The Snail's photgraphic style...

Here's a weird one: I just acquired a copy of the film "THX-1138"; the original release w/ a mono soundtrack. I popped it into an HF550, and the speed keep switching back & forth every 10 seconds or so between BI & BII! I could see the speed icon change on the display, the picture looking like its going in and out of "X2" mode, and the sound going from normal to "Chipmunks." Like the deck couldn't decide what speed to play it at. Couldn't quite figure that one out since "THX-1138" then played fine in a few of my other decks I tried, and no other tapes played on the 550 showed the speed problem.

How does the tape itself look? Is it 'scalloped' at all on the edges? Could maybe winding and rewinding it help?

Maybe the ACE head on that 550 is on the edge of going bad?

Olive why don't you tell the person with the original pitchers that the dealersnail has ripped off their pictures... Doesn't ebay have something against things like that?

_@_v - well i can't exactly prove who stole from who for one thing. only the creator of the picture can speak up for their rights really.

_@_v - i'm tempted to think the guy is using two selling ids cuz both autions are from texas and both are using aol to host their piccies. something smells real pond-snailie about those auctions but i can put my feelerstalk on it...

_@_v - eeee! an sl-t9 a-me!

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_@_v - eeee! it has a camera k-plug!

_@_v - eeeee! lummy nummy ultra-rare sl-hfr 90!

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Hmmmm... I believe this will blow away the long-standing belief that no pre-recorded matter was released in ED Beta... Presumably these are also SuperBeta because ALL ED-Betas were SuperBeta. I know that I have seen pre-recoded S-VHS matter.

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Have a Sony SuperBeta SL-HF2000 (with box)purchased new in June 1998 from Berger Brothers (also have invoice). Also, about 30 tapes (two unopened). Anybody interested?

All ED machines can record / playback SuperBeta, but tapes recorded in ED format are not SuperBeta, therefore won't be playable in a regular SuperBeta.

http://ebay0.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_8a79e0ecc1aef152dc579a98d2e57202/i-5.JPG eeeeeee! its VcrGarySnail! lol! Now we know what one of the faces of evil looks like..

I believe a small number of prerecorded ED tapes were released in Japan only (that one on eBay looks like an import). The other dude there is right; ED is totally different animal. 500 lines and metal tape vs. ~360 lines and oxide for Superbeta (BIs is, what, ~400?). And for all the "enchanced picture" variations of formats, I've only seen prerecorded demo tapes, here (Sß, S-VHS, Hi-8). I've acutally got a few, m'self.

I've seen a few movies pre-recorded in S-VHS, but not many. I think "Independance Day" was one of them...

LOL, I just noticed the address Madness put as the email.... :) :P NEway, I wanted to ask a question about my Betamie. I dragged it out from under the bed this morning and turned it on, but the flashing "C" light showed and it shut down with "T" flashing fast even though the battery was fully charged. I took out the battery and put it back in, and it worked fine for a while but, "C" again (steady). I played back the recordings it made while "C" was on, and they were fine. I know the heads are clean (only use B-cam oxides in it), so what could be causing this? Old age crankiness?

I'd clean the heads anyway, unless you did it recently, and then I'd check all the linkages in the casette-tab detection system. I suppose if push comes to shove you could disable the tab system and put a big label on the side saying that it will erase even record-inhibit tapes...

I have a Betamax SL5400 that I bought new in 1970 something. It works fine is anyone interested in buying it?

I've been given a Sanyo Betamax Recorder model VTC9455 and there is no information on this anywhere on the internet that I can find. It is a fairly large machine, gold colour top cover case with fake wood trim sides/front. Soft-touch buttons instead of 'piano' keys. It is multi-format as in PAL, SECAM and NTSC according to the front panel.

Unfortunately and as per the age of htese things it is non-functional tape wise, tuner/time works OK though.

So is this an previously unknown model or an equivilent to another? Any info appriciated.

_@_v - luckily the drive train on most sanyos was fairly consistant from model to model so if it's a mechanical problem you can probably just get a cheapo VTC-5000 or something like that off of e-bay and revive your unit with kibbles and bits from the 5000. there are also belt kits you can buy if it's just bad rubber keeping your unit down.

_@_v - if you have some ftp space or an online photo place why not take and upload piccys of the sanyo so we can all see it?

Jesse does 'C' mean discharged? Perhaps your betamie sips away at your fully-charged battery while you sleep. My GR-SZ9 (SVHS-C hifi) can drain a fully charged NP-66 in less than a week even though it is turned off. I bought two brand new ones before I figured this out. So now I can go to a concert with 3 hours worth of batteries and one 30 -min SVHS-C tape.

Hi all,

Sorry this is a V2000 question, I hope you can help :)

I picked up a Video200 machine yesterday complete with some tapes (and all for 50p) it’s a Grundig V1600 2x4

The machine is in great cosmetic condition, but seems to have a few faults.

When a tape is playing the sound is muffled and quiet with changes in pitch, is this just a simple clean of the audio head or something else?

The picture is a little grainy but not too bad, rewind and fast-forward is good.

I can’t seem to tune in any channels using the tuner, nothing is picked up on the uhf band, is this serious or a simple fix?

Also does anyone know the pinouts for the av din plug or better still a copy of the manual / service manual

Thanks

Bill

Have a BMC-110 camcorder with manual and ac adapter/battery charger. Any interest?

WANTED: MANUAL FOR SONY SL-HF840D AND SL-HF600. DOES ANYONE HAVE THIS FOR SALE? PLEASE EMAIL US AT [email protected]. WE ARE ALSO ALWAYS INTERESTED IN PURCHASING BETA VCRS...EX...SL-HF2100, SL-HF2000, SL-HF860,SL-HF840D, SL-HF600. LET US KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING. THANKS

_@_¼¼ - give us your betas che-e-e-a-a-a-ap so we can sell them ste-e-e-e-e-ep!

_@_¼¼ - all your betas are belong to us...

Anyone happen to be looking for some blanks? I just came across this: A guy selling 26 lots of forty Sony BC-20G/K-series tapes on eBay. Always needing blanks m'self, but he's got so many. ;)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3034183430&category=21163

eeeeee! meanie fake post-er! Anyways, no Nnils, I always keep batty either in the charger (batty I tried had just come off of charger) or outside of Betamie. "C" i think either means head dirty or tube going bad. Oh well, I just chalked it up to old-age crankiness.. I wouldn't be too happy if I'd just spent 3 months in a stuffy case, either. yay, more Betamie-cam blanks!

mmmmm nummy blanks! I also duplicated an Ampex Betacam case label (only changed Betacam to Betamax, and tape number to Beta tape length) on the computer if anyone wants it (just tell me what length). I'm also working on a Sony one, if anyone's interested. I like to have the "pro" labels in the plastic insert, LOL... I posted an example, check the Betamax files (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheBetamaxVideographer/files/). Also, if anyone wants the Photoshop PSD source so they can play with it if they want, I can upload it there. Let me know!

I guess that last Olive still needs the stone taken out. Obviously from the VHS chat page.

haha!!!!!!! i concur!

_@_¥¥-~ - Guess we'll hafta reprogramme Echelon to track down that loser...

What DVD-quality image compression looks like in a digipiccy...

http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_4fe8f783e3b160530ddfeb7c0109dce1/i-1_B_L.JPG

http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_4fe8f783e3b160530ddfeb7c0109dce1/i-2_B_L.JPG