(in christopher walken voice)

_@_v - wow! wowie wowie wow!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3040149056

_@_v - wega-badged sl-c7 with matching tape changer!

ee? and maybe a eunie in half the parquing spaces, too! :) at that jappy place... nummy wummy!

http://www.waseda.jp/itc/services/av/SL-200D-s.jpg E! And look what you can borrow! It's for loan! yeeeee!

_@_¼¼ - maybe you can sweet-talk your parents into letting you attend Waseda University.

http://www.waseda.jp/

boolah-boolah! rah-rah! wa-se-da! - _¿_oo|> <- minimeep with Waseda U pennant

unless Francess would like to contribute a large tax-free educational grant to the Wards Home... :( Unfortunately, the ones I'd have to sweet talk would either be smoky guy __@_**-~ or the guys at the banque. We just don't have the $$ for that kinda educational experience, LOL!

For Sale: NEC 734A with remote needs TLC. Make Offer. 200 beta tapes including 40 commercially made movies...make offer. Need help with 2 SONY SL-HF 300 in sick bay.

The F1 has a problem :( the video section appears to work fine.. but there is no display on the tuner section and the RF channels are not working.. (odd) could it be a fuse..?The remote works fine and it plays back fine.. Paul:)

Among the audio and video equipment I inheirited from my father is a Betamax SL-5000, S/N 810285. It looks okay but I can't guarantee how well it works. I have no use for it but I hate to trash it if somebody wants it, even if just for parts. I'll send it to anyone who's willing to pay the freight.

I don't know who it was we have here who had the Mercury Capri but I did just see one on the road today. Also a Merkur Scorpio...

At any rate the old GCS-1 got some good use in over the weekend... brilliant machine, really...

eeeee! What was that page with the Chrysler New Yorker half-limo? I saw one today! LOL!

I don't think that was a New Yorker, I think it was a Chrysler LeBaron... differing quite a bit from the Imperial LeBarons that were boats of the first magnitude. At Umass Lowell we've got a few exotics, actually, at least two Merkurs, a Lotus, and some others... And 53,000 "CJ" Jeeps. I've taken to calling them the "Ubiquidous U-mass Lowell Jeepsters".

~~~~~(__@_v[oo]={__)~~~~~~

_@_v - eee! took my betamie out onto the lake. got nice shot of the bow of my canoe before a passing rainstorm forced me back to the shore.

well, hmmmm. Another eunie tidbit is that only 33% of the people who buy them actually get the real 800 (S) with the MCE. Plus my NeeP-11 got really hot and started smelling funny when I charGEd it yesterday. Geh... Still worked tho but only for about 40 minutes. Guess a few more cycles are in order.

awww! U-matic University, I misread Sean's post and saw it that way, lol. Betamax Eunie-versity, lol!

hello please?:)

_@_v -screenshot taken by betamie while on the lake...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheBetamaxVideographer/files/betamieonlake.jpg

Screenshot taken after canoe tips over...

http://home.nycap.rr.com/frannylandde/frannypix/11241254.jpg

Well folks, this is it.. for certain this time. I've been told either get rid of all my excess stuff, or I will go. So....

All my ßeta stuff is up for sale. I have the following. Prices listed are suggested. I will consider reasonable offers.

SL-HF900 works good, slightly rough looking, no remote. $300SLO-323 works great, a few scratches. $35SLO-325 works great, a few scratches. $50Sanyo VCR-7300 looks and works nice. Awaiting an HVC-2400 camera I bought for it. Will include this in the sale price. Will also include two partially good NP-1 type batteries, between the two I'm sure there is one completely good one. $175 Roughly 100 NIB blank L-750's, all top brands, no junk. $3.00 each or $250 for the lot. Pre recorded ßeta movies/videos $4.00 each. List can be seen at http://fullspectrumradio.jadephoenix.org/forsale.htmUsed ßeta tapes, many one-pass. Selling these as blanks, but have television shows or movies recorded on them. $1 each.ßeta clamshell tape cases. $1 each or 25 for $20

Shipping of course is extra. Shipping will be via USPS Priority (fairly fast) or Parcel Post (slow).

Well to add to all the "For sale" stuff here I may as well kick in the stuff I've got... I was previsouly going to sell some of it to Brenda, but it looks like that is no good... Brenda, if you still want it, let me know ASAP.

Here goes: RM-E100V in good working order, a little wear from use and perhaps needs the buttons cleaned, but it works with no issues. Offers over $25 +S&H

to email me take "Spamslammer" and one "dot" (.) out of the given email.SLO-1400 in good working order, I believe the "Pause" key needs repair but the actual video mechanism and transport are in exceptional shape considering it was a duplicator, which accounts for the physical roughness of the unit. $70 +S&H

MVC-2000 Mavicam in good working order. This is an IN BOX demo unit with the manual (Photocopy). It is a little worn from handling as it was a demo unit but it works just fine and comes with a bunch of disks and the cleaning disc and shoulder strap. Included also is the MVP-2500 still video player that lets you play the little discs it records. The whole setup, $ 200 +S&H.

How quick... I may have a buyer lined up for the RM-E100V already! C'mon people, these are nice deals!

Add to last post :

I guess it's no differ than Color Graphics Adapter.

Does nayhow know Access Bus on NEC multisync XP17 spec.I used the monnie to watch BETA, with VGA to RGB connectivity.

_@_v - lummy nummy beta for the u.k. crew....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2945645667

_@_v - sl-f1ub and camera for a fiver start bid

There´s an original servicekit SL-0017 on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3040830538

Jesse, that Chrysler K-car Executive Limo website is AWOL. I just took mine on a trip thru Canada's desert (with a broken air conditioner). http://www.desert.org/

Hey Jesse! Here's a battery to replace that portable smoke generator/heater you're using...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2945534183&category=15072

My battery on the BMC-100p has completely gone :( I needed to operate the Betamovie.. so my father created a new external battery (8 AA NiMH batteries) and connected it to the DC power socket of the Betamovie (with the correct polarity) It works well and poss runs for more than an hour... BUT I'm not sure it powerful enough to run it properly... the edit cut is wonky and the Caution lights up when powered.. (only for a second) Am I doing anything wrong..?

Guess nayhow knows Acces Bus....

_____________________________________Looking for parts......http://www.pacparts.com/

Jappy Camie fansite

http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~bcc100/frm/fr02.html

http://www.usedvideogear.com/categories/vtr.htm

Fur Francess

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

http://www.betamax.net/gallery/title/title_top.htm

Anybody got a spare $900+ lying around?...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3039675359&category=39830

Yawn. $900 for a machine that sure will need lots of service by now. Great buy. Leonard.

leonard, you almost have a point, especially since that has a reserve... I think a new EDV-900 cost around $1000 when you could get them...

_@_v - i'd be curious as to the backstory on this item...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3041107994

_@_v - sl-2000 with the zenith tuner and remote...

Stange... the Tuner timer unit has a built in power socket.....

What's with the Japanese text on some of the connections on the EDV-9500?

_@_v - that's not so strange. many vcrs of the day put in an a.c. socket in case there weren't enough plugs in the room this was installed. the tt-2000 has one.

_@_v - a special message to the nigerian scammers that troll this site looking for e-mail addresses. don't waste your time! you're not fooling anyone in this group! we know that it's a scam!

_@_v - any other betafans in the eastern u.s. still have power. niagara mohawk got a severe dip but managed to recover in about 5 - 10 minutes to a usable level...

_@_v - anyone recall the'65 or '77 power blackouts?

_@_v - i'm gonna go sleech down to the pool....

Hi olive! We've got electricity in the Boston area. So Dollars to Donuts Madness has still got power (I just noticed he hasn't posted in a while... wonder why...). Anyway There is another Sony setup with the wrong tuner, it's an SL-2000, PCM -F1, AC-220, AC-700, and TT-2001, the tuner for my SL-2001. But the whole setup is a lot of money. But it would be nice to have both of the portables and a PCM -F1. The AC socket is on the Sony version of that tuner as well, and the switched AC socket on decks that had it was nice for people who didn't have remote cotrol TV sets and could then use the VCR's tuner to tune, if it had a full tuner.

Re: Sony Portable with Zenith Tuner. Vendor says "the only testing I've done is watched two old movies we had here on Beta & they played fine." That's no proof that the Zenith TT works when connected to the Sony. I bought an identical looking Zenith Tuner Timer without the matching video recorder unit (which was VHS!!!) and it was a whole day's work to get it to do anything. Unless certain lines were tricked into sensing +5v from the recorder connector, it could not even wake up. Impossible to solve without schematic diagrams. If this Sony is wired differently from a Zenith recorder they will not work together. Caveat Emptor.

hard to say but it looks like the output of the thing comes from the tuner (I know it has direct RF but that's it). It's possible there are compatibility issues but the tuner and recorder both power up. Caveat Emptor is general good sense on Ebay, though.

_@_v - well we still had power but the internet comapny lost theirs so i was offline for a while anyway. was taping a lot of the news till they went under.

_@_v - looks like n.y.c is still down....

Snaling needs to die. That is all I have to say for today. Scums

What did our snail do this time???

___@_** me? I didnt do nuthin!

liar! Anyway, it's very nice if you talk about it..... Lets all the feelings out :)

It is quite simple, I like to try to find a broken Beta VCR to repair and play with. This guy has outbid me numerous times, and for what I don't know. Maybe he shoves them up his ass for pleasure? I don't know. Its frustrating, these rare machines getting plucked up by speculators like this. That is what upsetted me and upsets me. For that, snaling should die. Thanks for hearing my rant, I did not mean to encumber you all with it.

Clearly you haven't read this page much :) none of us like snaling. He buys up machines and has used the parts to turn out some of the oddest crud we've seen, VCRs put together with the wrong faceplate, etc, and he dresses them up real nice so that they LOOK new but if you track his buys (He uses the ID someko to sell) and sales, you can find out what POS was sold and what was parted out... Also, if some troll doesn't find that reasonable complaint worthy, he's engaged in shill bidding, which not only goes agains Ebay policy, is generally condemned by everybody!

_@_¼¼ - funny but The Snail hasn't used his Snaling ID for a while. Mostly uses his Someko ID...

Glad to hear someone was smart enough to realize that, petty trips rule!!!

One I forgot to add to the batch of ßeta stuff I have to sell, I still have an SL-HF450 in need of some repairs and somewhere around here is an 800ME that seems OK, except that it needs a new loading mechanism. Make an offer on either of these, and I'll ship them out Parcel Post to save you shipping costs. Remember, I'm open to reasonable offers vs. the basic prices I listed for the other stuff. Oh, also still have two nice ßetamies, an NEC and a Sony BMC-110, each has one good NP-11, and one that needs cells replaced. $ 30 each on those. Also, I've purchased a brand new, warranteed NP-1 clone for the Sanyo VCR-7300, and I'll ship that with it for an extra $20 above the asking price on that.

My 1989 Zenith tuner/timer had an RF out and line outs on back but any RF was via the interface cable from a module inside the (missing) portable recorder, so even after hacking to make the tuner wake up, only the line outs were functional. That interface pinout needs to be identical or forget it. In other words if that Zenith is a re-branded Sony it will work. Mine was all-Zenith inside, although the recorder transport must have been made by JVC (the inventors of Very Happy Shareholders). In the end it turned out to be a decent tuner but I was lucky to have sold it for half of what I paid.

When I was in Grade 12 electronics we got to tour the largest Niagara generating station. Somebody got in trouble for taking us inside a turbine housing which was down for maintenance - something about there being only one closed gate between us and a 280-foot (80 m) high column of water. Also toured a nuclear power plant. Both seemed to be full of GE equipment...

_@_v - eeee! ifthat T -800 -amie it has the same flipper door/and loader as the T-50-amie you sold me i have a spare loader mechy you could use.

_@_v - i would like to slap my 'pod on that 450-amie to fix an SL-HFT7-amie that's missing it's tape drive mechy.

of COURSE petty trips RULE!!!!!!!!!

I try to modify the display of Z80 Instrumentation Board, getting those low freq RGB wasnt easy.Learning from that I got the Idea of connecting Euro connectors of my Beta to a RGB base Interconnect. Luckyly I get the pic.____________________________________________________________________________________________URL of these days

http://www1.tcnet.ne.jp/tatsuoda/3rd/oda_3rd1.htm

BTW off the pic

What's happened in Michigan&NY....would that be possible in such a great State....

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Why is it that I can understand all the people on this page who are foreigners (to me, at least, obviously I'm as much a foriegner to some of you as you to me), but it seems that the above post, by an American, (Guessing by the yahoo.com Email), is by and large unintelligable?

_@_¥¥-~ - To the trolls... despite the anonymity the internet affords you, you are STILL A HUMAN BEING and you are STILL DEALING WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS. Try treating others as you expect to be treated because somebody somewhere knows exactly who you are and where you live.

To Bobby; The electrical system of the US and Canada is laid out so that power plants feed into a giant grid instead of one city or area. Ideally this means a surge in usage in one area can be spread out over a larger pool of energy sources. The problem is is that a failure somewhere within the grid can cascade throughout the whole system if the failsafes don't work properly. Which in this case they didn't.

The last big blackout in 1965 was traced to a single overloaded relay switch (which was not rated for the power is was managing) just outside of the Niagara Falls area in Canada. This switch (I think serving the Adam Beck Power plant) failed causing a chain reaction down the line of power plants. The power plants on the American side of the Niagara Falls were suddenly hit with Canada's electrical load and to protect themselves pulled themselves offline. City after city down the line blacked out as their power plants did likewise till the last power plant in NYC was put in the position of trying to feed the entire northest. It's operators foolishly tried to stay online and suffered damage as a result.

An episode of Quantum Leap had the big blackout being caused by some members of a Mafia crew plugging in a hairdryer into a Buffalo NY fraternity house which was lit up for a toga party with a cut to exasperated power plant operators...

"There goes Rochester... there goes Syracuse... there goes Schenectady..."

Gee Franny and I always heard it was a squirrel going out in a blaze of glory across two high tension lines. (Just kidding).

There're 1000 Tornadoes in one year at US ,pray they dont blow the Plant......

http://homepage1.nifty.com/Sony/MainTenance/SL2100/SL2100_003.html

DONT TRY THIS AT HOME

I would doubt the squirrel theory at least in regards to the very high voltage trasmission lines as they spaced are too far apart for some despondent squirrel to bridge them in a bid to end it all and join up with the Great Squirrel in the Sky.

There is a case of a hapless fellow urinating off a bridge onto high tension wires running below and meeting his maker when the current traveled 'upstream'...

A good argument for looking before you leak...

Aaaahhhh.. whole new meaning to the term "leakage current"...

It seems, Franny, that we both take eachother too seriously. :) At any rate, That remings me of an old joke about making leek soup. Well anyway, I got some very nice brochures for HiFi Betamaxes today and I'll make some scans and put 'em up on the Betamax Videographer for anyone to have a look.

How re-volting Brenda...

I'm shocked... just shocked...

Must take some time to meditate.

Ohmmmmmmmm...... Ohmmmmm........

_@_v - watt? watt?

_@_v - sounds like that guy experienced shock and owww!

It's not such a big deal, Franny, don't get all amped up.

OK everybody, Check out The Betamax Videographer, in the photos section you will find a directory: "Brochures", in which I have the specs of several VCRs and the accessories page form a very nice brochure. If you look at the largest pictures, you can read all the text easily. The brochure also had in it some general Beta HiFi data and such, as well as smaller blurbs on the Betamovies, some cameras, and so on, but the salesman doodled on it and wrote out prices, so I took the choice data. If anyone has any brochures or such, why not put them in that directory? I have another brochure but it's not a scanable size, it folds out like a road map...

Sean, perhaps these guys have a new firewire large format scanner in your price range.

http://www.scantastik.com/hardware/contex/large-format-scanner-index.htm

RRRRRRrrrrrrriiiiigghhtt. If I had between USD 6,300 and 21,000 I'd be up to my eyeballs in ED-Beta, SL-HF-1000s and so on... not a scanner so I can scan one brochure... that I don't even know where it is now... and I don't feel like looking... so there.

Hey, I not only remember the Nov 09 1965 blackout, I was in Niagara Falls Canada when it happened. We heard on the 6:00 news that large portions of New York and Ontario were down. Most Buffalo & Toronto tv stations were already dead or on emerGEncy power. Yet it was another hour before we went dark. We never believed the official reports blaming "the failure of an Ontario Hydro control breaker about the size of a breadbox at Niagara Falls" (Sir Adam Beck GEnerating Station #2 was the one we toured too thoroughly during grade 12).

In about 1978 I met a retired employee of Consolidated Edison who claimed to have worked with the guy in Connecticut who yanked their thermal generators offline just in time ("Hey Homer - how come all these dials are heading into the red?"). Apparently they were able to supply the juice necessary to restart Con Ed (strictly speaking all those generators are alternators and cannot produce a thing unless their field coils are already powered.)

Hmmm.. never thought of that but it makes sense, alternators are more efficeint than generators (hence why we use them in cars even though cars use DC, it's better to make AC and make it into DC than it is to make DC). Kinda reminds me of jet engines that need a kick start of some kind (my dad is ex-Air Force; he talk of old fighters that started using blank shotgun shells to get the engine going).

Ok well I looked for the fuse T315mA and replaced it 3 times.. and for 3 times it keeps blowing.. I wonder what is causing the overload?Any ideas will be gratefully recieved

Mad Beta Fuseblower: Verify that the new fuses were actually T-rated (time delay vs. fast blow). 315mA is a common value for fuses, although I have no idea why they picked that odd number. If T315 blows repeatedly there is a major short and re-blowing will take down other related parts.

There was a major Aussie electronics supplier who advertised pre-blown light bulbs and fuses as "energy savers"... their catalog had a gag item on almost every page. Can't remember their name. By now they prolly have a great website.

hmm they are T rated.. well they have been in a shed for 2 years.. perhaps that might have damaged their performance.. (the fuses not the F1 -ub) I cannot understand how there can be a short.. they were just sitting on the shelf happily counting the clock.. I just noticed one day that the display wasn't showing.. but the machine works.. even the remote (but the channels don't seem to work.. even though the channel no. is not displayed)Should i go to maplins and get a new fuse.. or strip it apart look for anything that might short it?

After four fuses you might want to look for another problem.

_@_v - optimistic seller of the week...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3041665226

_@_v - wants $300 start bid for a toshiba v-5535 portable that has an 'estimated' value of $1300 bux...

_@_v - and to top that off the thing needs a new clutch/brake assembly

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i can yahoo very fast hack

_@_v -and i can tie my own shoelaces...

And I can win Ebay auctions. This was just too funny, IMHO, to pass up at the price.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3621997231&category=37838&rd=1

I hate when that happens....

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_@_v - clowns to the left of me... jokers to the right....

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_@_v - here i am... stuck in the middle with you...

Brenda-

Didn't you have a remote for an SL-HF1000 at one time? I don't need (notice I said NEED, not WANT) any additional machines, but I do need a remote for my 1000...

Oddly enough I can answer that... I know she had one because I sold it to her. Odds are, however, that she sold it with the 1000. However, she did I think have a second dud remote that was only partially functional. So it would pay to ask her, which you already have, so this post is pointless. But I will say that Franny's and Olive's above posts are very funny.

GE we bring Windows to living... Can all of you guys check your fonts and tell me if you have "Zurich ExBT" or "Denmark" installed? I really need these fonts...

http://homepage1.nifty.com/Sony/MainTenance/SLF11/SLF11_006.html

Someone might find his remote here....http://homepage1.nifty.com/Sony/Wireless_Editor/WirelessEditorMain.html

http://uk.geocities.com/dasimperator/My_Betamax_Page.html

I just find that link from Japanese Beta page

--------------------------------------------------------I found some Remote compatible with other machine/deck e.g SL-HF1000D can be controlled by HF95D remote(RMT159).RMT231or230= HF77K / HF77ES. Also I got additional Function from RM-952 to be used on my KX21HG1 wich the original remote dont.As I said long time ago HandHeld organiser(Palm based/MS pockect PC/etc) can be programmed to achieve IR signals from Remotes.Ya might collect several types of IR patch 'N saves as files for future reference.So be Happy.....

You gotta love the site counter imbedded in the display of an SL-2000...

What site?Here's some Japs site

http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-15/h3.html

http://img117.ac.yahoo.co.jp/users/6/1/1/7/ryaku2000-img600x450-1060950587sl200d_0803_c.jpg

The SL-F5

http://img109.ac.yahoo.co.jp/users/7/1/3/4/miki0507-img584x230-1059573441beta.gif

The digitAll

http://img123.ac.yahoo.co.jp/users/6/9/5/6/sing_song0813-img600x450-1057739065sl-hf501d.1.jpg

Well

http://img43.ac.yahoo.co.jp/users/9/2/4/1/haracre-img600x511-1058532164dsc071800003.jpg

http://img49.ac.yahoo.co.jp/users/6/9/5/6/sing_song0813-img600x450-1059214789sl-hf66.1.jpg

http://img109.ac.yahoo.co.jp/users/6/9/5/6/sing_song0813-img600x450-1051184866sl-hf66.2.jpg

Wards must be happy to collect 'em.

The 'My Betamax' site you found in the port before mine...

post

any port in a storm...

i have some good old beta tapes. do they make a vhs tape that can hold a beta tape and play on a vhs recorder? thanks oldtimer

Sorry, but there is no such thing. It's a physical impossibililty on all sorts of levels. Your only option is to use a real beta recorder. But if you can get a good one, why copy? just use them like that. Beta tapes are better than VHS, unless you have S-VHS, and even then if you copy you'll lose a generation.

Sorry, oldtimer. The Beta-to-VHS adapter is a myth. We need a webpage that shows why.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3041829373&category=39830

Well, well, well. Here we go again. Doing a little eBay a'flipping and a'gouging is bad behavior for others, but not for the self-appointed nazis of the hobby, is it?

$240?

Oh, that's right; "they don't have to pay it if they don't like the price," a protestation deemed herein to be irrelevant in the defense of anyone else, is self-conferred specially upon you alone for use by yourselves, the self-chosen ones.

What you down to here now, 4 active participants?