Hi,

Sony Trinicon HVC-3000Phttp://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3045508922&category=27734

Sony SL-C9ES black PAL nice large photos with angle photo.http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3046483077&category=27734

Sony SL-5800 NTSC in Germany!http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3046156888&category=27734

Bye

Hi,

Others of the Realistic rewinder, here:

LPL rewinder Beta japanesehttp://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b42535380

I seem one the videowalkman Beta!

Bye

_@_v - eee! john ritter and johnny cash died within a day of each other...

_@_v -do you suppose if the great snail in the sky is working thro the 'johns' in his rolidex, john stamos and johnny carson might be next? maybe johnny rotten and jill st-john?

I guess God forgot to wind John Ritter's heart that night...

_@_v - eee! large sized version of that bugs bunny advert for sony superbeta...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheBetamaxVideographer/files/Betamax-Adverts/bugs_for_superbeta.jpg

_@_v - a note to people who click on that link and get asked to join "the betamax videographer - we've had to adjust the club's membership settings to prevent auto-spammers from joining up to post spam so there'll be a short delay till one of the moderators approve memberships.

_@_v - sorry about that but spammers have been abusing our system a lot lately.

I was told my Sony Video Cassette Recorder - Model SL-810D - was a valued item. And here I thought I had a white elephant. Is someone pulling my leg?

Well it is a reasonably valued item amongst Beta fans in that it is one of the 3 or 4 'digital effects' class of Betas that Sony produced just before it started putting out VHS machines. Probably worth double a brand new VCR goes for today at the minimum...

anyone try calling the 1 -800 -BETAMAX # on that ad? I'm gonna go do it right now. eee heee

gleh it just keeps ringing and ringing......

_@_v - got a spare g-note floating around?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3047052634

_@_v - 'turnkey' beta studio. you hafta look carefully but yes, there is a betamax in and amongs all that equipment!

I see it, Olive... oddly enough it's an old consumer model, and a crappy one at that. I thik a GCS-50 or SLO-1800 would fit in much better... The whole thing is still drool-worthy, however, and I suppose if I had that much money to burn I'd go for an SLO-1800 while I was at it....

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! That looks exactly like the old 9000 suite at WOAI! ME WANTS! Lol!!

Hi, Sergio, thanks for coming back to me. The trouble is, SECAM L isn't compatible with SECAM EAST (the former Soviet bloc standard) or with Middle East SECAM. It uses negative modulation and a different sound subcarrier frequency. I've played SECAM L on my PAL VHS decks, but you only get black and white, in my experience with poor video quality. I have an SLFH100, but it is a UK only model, strictly PAL and UHF. My SLHF950E (an import from Germany) is pan-European in that it can be switched to use VHF and the slightly different mainland UHF frequencies, but again it's strictly PAL.

I'm not familiar with the other machines you mention, and I'd be grateful for any more information on any of them.

Hi,

Here, I find hard the site japanese Museum Electronic form (www.google.com):Sony Beta 1975http://stsdb.kahaku.go.jp/detail_2000.asp?key=900190011088&Apage=9TDK Beta 1977http://stsdb.kahaku.go.jp/detail_2000.asp?key=900190011136&Apage=14Maxell Beta 1978http://stsdb.kahaku.go.jp/detail_2000.asp?key=900190011146&Apage=15FujiFilm Beta 1978http://stsdb.kahaku.go.jp/detail_2000.asp?key=900190011120&Apage=12

Bye

Video gear at computer recycling at last! Frida brough an SEG and a sony audio tape cassette deck, and today brought a U-matic Edit Suite! It works! I can't believe it! Maybe some beta in the future, I hope..

_@_v - eee! PALsite ought to start listing some of the WEGA line betas at some time...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3047181285

_@_v - saw this WEGA video 35 sl-c6 /sl-5000 clone on the block. that makes at least three WEGA betas i've seen so far....

Anyone ever wonder how Sony markets their televisions called "FD Trinitron WEGA" (pronounced in the German fashion, actually) in countries where Wega made electronics...

HELLO

Interesting HVM-100CE Sony video camera being offered with this SL-F1

http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_10b5c54d2af9ea13e95eae3f7dbc36cc/i-1.JPG

The camera alone...

http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_10b5c54d2af9ea13e95eae3f7dbc36cc/i-4.JPG

Hi

Here, the site of the videorecorder Sony Betamax SL-8000 PAL, but language germany.

http://www.joeres.de/museum.htmhttp://www.joeres.de/musbeta1.htm

Bye

Hi check out the great new chat room #anorak on pie.sortmirc.net

Info here http://www.the-oasis.tk/

Or start your own techy chatroom on the server its dead easy :)

does anyone know where I can get my old home movies on sony betamax tapes converted to a more modern system, either VHS or C.D.? My sony betamax has sadly died. Manythanks

Hi all, I got this Cute Skinny Beta NTSC machine that runs gorgeously except the X2 button cant work......Well ,any sugestion wll be helpfull.

What is B1,2,3 means?

Regards......

See ya soon

Hi Susan.......

Just plug into A Multi system VHS Player/Recorder....and you're ready to go

CD? Ya meant VCD, Ya can get VCD recorder for 1000$ or less and link it up.....

Or get yourself a Capture card and plug into your computer then crank it up...For a few Bux ya can even make a DVD libraries heuheuheu

Well now ya can have your Oldies in 21st Techie.....

_@_v - to greg, what model beta are you using? some of the Betas with x-2 playback won't enable it on tapes recorded on b-II speed - which brings us to your second question b-I, II and III are the 3 speeds n.t.s.c. betas were recorded in. b-III was the slowest speed.

_@_v - to susan, you can either buy another beta off of e-bay or look for a video duplicator in the phone book. video production houses also dupe videos to another format as well.

It wont run on BI mode.......can you describe the specifications plz.....

X-2 playback in BI mode is impossible, even on ultra-high end decks like the SL-HF-900. It's funny, though, because you can press the button and nothing happens. Since Beta speeds are all multiples, to do X-2 playback is easy, the machine is just run at the next fastest speed, but when you're already going as fast as you can, i.e. BI, there is no faster speed with smooth playback, just Betascan.

I think you're right. Yes I got it.

_@_v - eee! you didn't say what model number that betamax was greg.

_@_v - it would help to know what model it is. it would also help to know what speed the tape is playing at - b-I, II or III? - the machine should tell you.

Well he said it wouldn't do 2x playback on an X1 tape (Confused yet? [evil grin]). So I assumed he's got a BI (X1, same difference) tape. Or maybe a lot of them. They're not that common, only a few decks could make 'em, let's see, SL-6300, SL-7200, SL-8200, SL-HF-750, SL-HF-1000, also super Hiband, as well as: SL-HF-2100. Others include the Industrials SLO-260, 340, 320, 323, 325, 383; GCS-50, the BMC-1000K camcorder, and any of the select few turbocharged SL-HF-900's out there, of which I have one.

On another topic, anyone have any idea how many SL-HF-900s have been turbocharged? Mine is, and I've seen one other on Ebay. Anyone else own them? Know of their existance? If Andy Sanchez will post again, maybe he can say how many total mods he's done. The info was published in a magazine, but I dont' know if many people did it, the numbers could be anywhere from the hundreds to the thousands, I have no idea.

Mine has no X2 button ,its Digital..

Hi All, I'm looking for a remote control for my Sony C40. PALsite says the one I need is the RMT-216.

I have two Beta remotes to trade with: RMT -200 (the Sony C7 one) and the RMT-210 (three button). Alternatively I'd be happy to buy your spare 216.

Please mail me off list if you can help me out.

Thanks,KeithUK

Can anyone supply me with the tuning instructions for a TT -F1 UB tuner/timier unit with a SL-F1UB Betamx recorder? Perhaps scan and email the appropriate page from the insruction manual? Many thanks.

Hi,

Sony EDCAM EDW-10F Professionalhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3047406772&category=21168Sony ED-Beta EDW-30F Professionalhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3047128137&category=39830Sony Super Hi-Band Beta Hi-Fi SL-HF1000http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3046935868&category=39830http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3046795609&category=39830Sony SuperBeta Hi-Fi SL-HF750http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3046536281&category=39830

Bye

I have an old Fuji L250 Beta tape to convert for digital video editing, likely (sorry) to VHS first. Can anyone tell me whether a tape so described is consumer versus professional? I guess it makes a major difference in what deck(s) can handle it. Thank you.

David HurdonToronto Canada

Well if a consumer or pro deck made it won't make a difference except maybe if its got linear stereo and if its important than you'll need a pro Betamax to do it, but I think what you're asking is is it a Betamax (consumer format) or a Betacam (Pro format). Unless someone stuck a Betamax tape in an oxide Betacam deck, that is a regular Betamax tape, 99.999% chance of it being so. Why copy to VHS then to digital? Why not go straight to digital to minimize quality loss? I understand you need digital, presumably for non-linear editing.

Regarding the turbo charged 900's I know I have had all six I have owned modified, although I had worn one out and had some of the parts needed for the modifications taken out of it to modify the last one I picked up a couple of years ago. I also know that two fo my friends have had the modifications done to their 900's through the same technicain I use and one of them had another 900 partly modified so thatit would playback, BIs porperly but would not record in that mode.

LOL, eee! SL-HF900 S! hee hee, I wonder if you can supercharge a SL-2000amie... awww poor thing!

i need help in chat

Speaking of X2 speed I got HF95 runs double speed clearly with sound.

Also simple editing tool with PinP capabilities ,you can watch The Tuner or DVD at the same Frame or reverse the PNP.

Ancient Beta with 21st century Technology.

Hmm, Bobby, never thought of using a PiP set as an editing tool, that's a damn good idea! Also, lots of nice decks will play back with double speed audio at normal pitch. Beta HiFi enables this, that is one feature VHS truly could never match and never will. The only way VHS could do it was back with linear stereo, the BR-6400U has a whole board in it that lowers the audio pitch in 2x playback to normal, but it's a: a pro deck, not a consumer deck, and, b: linear stereo, as opposed to HiFi.

Re: x2 audio. I have a Citzen DVD player, Try DVD x2 and audio is muted. Stick in an audio CD and x2 (or x4 or x8) will output audio at the wrong speed and pitch. Alvin and the Chipmunks live again.

Yup...X2 speed is no part of NTSC BI but operate smoothly at BII and BIII, Unless turbocharged with 'Methanol'.

'Bout X2,4,6,8,even 24 speed at DVD runs OK at some Chinese Machine,few of them make pitch sounds.

Funny to know that scratched DVD Disc wont play at ONKYO ,unexpectedly works fine with the China Clone Player.

China Electronics put a tail on Japs and some other Western Industry.

Hi,

Here, I find very hard: GOOOAAAAAL for vcr list Beta in the language english, but it's incomplete:

http://www.videa.or.jp/NTSC/

WOW! After Sony, Sanyo, NEC, Pioneer and Realistic with Hi-Band (Super) Beta: Toshiba Hi-Band Beta Hi-Fi V-D65HB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It need to wait for new gallery photos (adjournment), next week!

Others site Betamax japanesehttp://hp1.cyberstation.ne.jp/beta-ma/beta-top.htm

You read this site very important: Betamax, the VTR that Sony proposed in 1969!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.nagaitosiya.com/lecture/0075.htm

Bye

Re: 1969 VTR. Sony (and others) made some important advances in VTR engineering about that time but just getting B&W images to play back on any half-inch machine other than the one that recorded them was hard enough that year. The article to which Sergio refers differs from anything I recall reading as "latest news" in 1969 electronics magazines. The new EIAJ standard was amazing enough that year (as man was walking on the moon for the first time).

"Reel" history... http://www.labguysworld.com/VTR_TimeLine.htm

I wonder what an EIAJ recording of Neil Armstrong would be worth today.

Hi everyone,By Beta C7 died last Monday and I don't think I'm going to be able to fix it this time :( Has anyone got a fully working Beta machine for sale? I can probably collect it from anywhere in the UK, but the North of England would probably be easier for me...

Hi,

Here, all photos vcr Beta and others, it isn't text nobody.http://www.kit.hi-ho.ne.jp/von3/KAIKO.HTM

Sony brochure Hi-Band Beta SL-HF750 http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/synthetic.jpgSony brochure cassette Beta Pro-X http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/prox.jpgSony brochure SL-F3http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/SLF3.jpgSony brochure SL-F7 and SL-F11http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/SLF11_7.jpgSony brochure SL-F33http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/SLF33.jpgSony brochure Video Hi-Fi SL-HF77 http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/SLHF77.jpgSony brochure Hi-Band Beta Pro SL-HF900http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/SLHF900.jpg

*VERY IMPORTANT*VERY IMPORTANT*I find two photos: small photo vcr JVC VHS prototype 1975 black (fourth photo, OK) and small photo vcr JVC Beta prototype 1974 silver/wood in Japan (last sixty photo and right, perhaps)?http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.ntv.co.jp/nnn24/live/benri/20010310.htmlBut colour of the videotape Beta was trasparent that it was prototype? JVC had copied from cassette Beta trasparent (you see third photo)!

Bye

FOR SALE:

NEW Pinch Roller for SLV-20, SLV-P116EE, SLV-M171, SLV-XR5. Thsi part is new in it's original box. sold for 10 euros. Ask for picture. [email protected]

Hi

I have a broken Sanyo VTC 5000 vcr

iam wondering if anyone has a vtc 5150 or 5000 that i could have/buy

email me or leave a message hereKind regardsJ Stephenson

To: Gaggle of people looking for operable machines. Unfortunately, operating machines rarely show up for sale on this page. Where you will want to look is the ebay web site for your part of the world, as there is one for most regions, and a worldwide search too. Give it a look. Prices are high but it is the quickest route to a new machine.

What's wrong with your VTC-5000? If it's transport troubles like not rewinding or playing or eating tapes it's probably fixable with new belts and tyres.

_@_v - eeee! amongst the beta catalog covers in ona those sites you found sergio...

http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/file23.html

_@_v - a snail!

_@_v - the beta catalogs and an early sony home computer...

http://kei.cside3.com/6100/diary2/catalogue/file28.html

Hello folks! Today's trip to Goodwill yeilded a few beta goodies. A bunch of prerecorded films including the first Highlander movie (still the best of them all!)! Also, some blanks: a half-dozen Quantegy BC -30 's and a dozen of those Sony "SuperSaver" blanks; some L-370's (of which I already had some) and others, yet another length, the L-425 (the info no the rear of boxes specifies that there was also an L-625 available, but I have yet to find any). The latter tapes appear to be unused (NOS) as they still have label kits inside; also those I tried to view were blank, but they weren't shrinkwrapped. Not bad for about $25 or so.

I just came across a vintage Sony HVC2200 Video Camera and would loike to find a manual for it. Any ideas wher I could round one up.

I would first try the Sony DAPC (Direct Access parts Center) although they have changed their once straightforward interface for something that is a blatant attempt to misderect the consumer into buying something wrong. They still seem to stock things for a surprising number of Betamax decks, although we wonder why some are listed at all when all you can do is spend $93 on a patch cable or somesuch nonsense.

Surely they will speak of the 1980s as the "Golden Age" of personal electronics as this 'Ghetto Blaster" boombox with a built-in TURNTABLE will attest to...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3048109298

Panasonic's turntable 'boom box'.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3048218742

I think Sharp's is a more 'fly' design but you could probably 'scratch' with this model...

Hello!

Can anybody say what is the price value for Sony T7 ME Betamax? I have one and I´d like to sell it, but don´t know how much I could ask from it.

Thanks in advance.

Agathon

The best advice is to look at the sales of similar Betamaxes and see what they're going for. The nice thing about your Beta is that it is a multisystem and thus you have more markets open to you...

If you're in the US check the listings for Beta VCRs here...

http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category39830/index.html?from=R11

If you're in the UK, click this link to see the listings for Betamaxes

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?query=Betamax&maxRecordsPerPage=100&category1=8345&combine=y&sc=1&SortProperty=MetaNewSort&st=0

If you're in Germany you might check these listings...

http://search.ebay.de/search/search.dll?query=Betamax&maxRecordsPerPage=100&category1=8345&combine=y&sc=1&SortProperty=MetaNewSort&st=0

If you're elsewhere you'll want to do a search of Betamax VCRs in the eBay site for your country by going to the http://www.ebay.com home page and clicking the link to your country...

I would like to say thanks to Franny for steering me towards the super ghetto blaster, damn I will have to go overdrawn again this month.

Yeah those are neat. I've got a few myself, including a large Lasonic deck with two Cassette drives, and a "Rapor" with three! None of mine have turntables, however.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2192034908&category=932

This is the one I have... of course mine was found by the curb and has no tape cassette cover, but the SOUND is incredible.

Hi,

Sony lists models Betamax:http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~general/14beta-2.htm

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~general/14beta-1.htm

Videotape japanesehttp://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://www.h5.dion.ne.jp/~rintan/page/beta.html

Very important messagehttp://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~starname/style.htm

SONY SONY Betamax and others MSX and MiniDisc and Blue Ray Dischttp://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://www2.nsknet.or.jp/~azuma/s/s0058.htm

Book Wikipedia on-linehttp://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml/title%3DBetamax%26amp%3Bredirect%3Dno

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax

Chronological table: Digital Audio Home Recording Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act also Betamaxhttp://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http://kjs.nagaokaut.ac.jp/mikami/copyrightlaw/chronology-AHRA.htm

Bye

Does anyone have more than 6 videos and conected to each one of them?..........also having problem with the interconnect......_________________________________________________________________________________You dont have to plug and unplug just to record,play and watch , simply wired them alltogether

I have the solution.

That is quite an impressive device there Sean, worthy of the word ghetto blaster. What music do you annoy your neighbours with, classic old skool hiphop, '93 funky breaks or that vicious jiggy attempt of music which passes as hiphop today?

I don't listen to rap, etc., but I'd imagine that it is a very good system if you like that sort of music...

hey im new but i still wanna chat wit some of yall dats online so can i

ahhh, have not heard it called rap for a while, man than makes me feel old. I only have vinyl so it would be safe to win that ghetto blaster but the guy has'nt got back to me about shipping to the uk, perhaps I would have to get the panasonic one.

You'd have to supply it with DC or the batteries because if it's designed for the US it will want 117VAC at 60 cycles, not whatever the UK is (250?) at 50 cycles. It might be switchable but I don't know.

_@_v - eeee! i dl-ed a couple mp3s of grandmaster flash and the furious five "white lines" and "the message". i think i still have this tape i found in a desk in school of classic 80s old-school rap including a jessie jackson for president (1984!) song...

_@_v - "hypocrites and uncle-tom's are talkin' trash! liberty and justice are a thing of the past! they want a stronger nation at any cost - even if it means that everything will soon be lost..."

_@_v - i miss my sleechy old sanyo 3 piece boombox. it was bitchy trying to press the record button cuz of the way they designed it but it had dolby and audio input jacks and you could separate the speakers....

i like the 80s freestyle and stuff until about 1997-1998 when it started turning into that yucky rap/hip-hop whatever it's called we have today... :(

http://i15.ebayimg.com/03/i/00/94/62/92_3.JPG eeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! Thas the ghetto blaster I think of when i hear "ghetto blaster!" i ALWAYS think Lasonic first!!!!!! Well ennyway the Lasonic I want has dual tape decques, but one of them is like a car's tape deck, where you stick the tape in sideways. I've seen it before, but i guess it's very rare.

Yeah Jesse that's the one I've GOT. Some dude was gonna buy it from me along with a GE for $100 for the pair. He then fell off the earth. I've tried to contact him but it's come to naught. Maybe I'll sell it to you for less, but keep in mind it's missing the cover to the tape drive, along with all the buttons, but the drive that loads like the car decks only needs a belt (you will have to get a shop to change it for you, it's hard to do). I'll let it go (it's really doing nothing for me), make an offer (I paid nothing for it, so just be reasonable).

On the subject of music, I was never a big rap fan, and I truly despise all the modern sh*te, but I do remember a time when it was not trying to be so bloody serious, take for instance a number called "Rapper's Delight" which had a hillarious verse about a meal at a friend's house gone wrong ("Have you ever been over to a friend's to eat"...)like I Said I never did like rap but it was for a while just people having fun.

Actually Jesse the one in the link you show seems to be rarer than the TRC-931. BTW mine is the orriginal, not the re-release. Well instead of clogging up the Betamax page here I'll just put the link to a really great boombox place before some trolls get on us for "Off-topic" posting.

http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/

lots of content!

_@_v - erf! MY sanyo wasn't shown in that site...

Don't feel down, Lady Escargot, my "Rapor" was not shown either, in fact I've never seen one like it before or since, and even though I sent a picture to the web site, it hasn't shown up.

Hi,

I have got nice mini-boombox Aiwa CS-M1!But motor-drive is slow cause small gear white is broken.http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/golden7.html

Thank you for Sean, I'm interesting boomboxes!Others boomboxes with format MiniDisc also compact cassette and CD, you see site: http://www.minidisc.org/equipment_browser.html "Boombox".

Regards and bye

ok, I've been with it so long I'm already forGEtting, haha.. can someone refresh my memory as to why Beta is snackrovision immune? I need a refresher on the basix, LOL; palsite data is mostly technical.

_@_v - marked down from $369 bux... now at $299 bux... gonna hafta keep marking down...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3048965258

_@_v - "case looks very valuable and expensive."

RIGHT! Uh... I paid $113 for a GCS-1 with more accessories and stuff, and an AFTERMARKET case that is actually worth something (The betamovie cases are only good for betamovies!)

Greetings,I have an sl-hf300 betamax, the remote and about 12-15 tapes with music videos and assorted movies. It needs repair but it will come on. I am asking $50 for all. Is this a realistic price? It was top of the line when I got it back in the '80's. If nothing else please tell me the name of a repair center who may give me $10 or $15 for it [email protected]

While the HF-300 wasn't exactly "Top of the line" (I have the brochure right here), it's a great deck and it's also quite refreshing to have someone ask a fair price for a deck. I'd jump for it if I weren't swimming in Beta HiFis right now, but I suppose someone else might.

Most Betas are immune to Macrovision because the AGC circuit is responds too slow to meet Macrovision standards. I heard Sony wasn't required to build their vcrs within these standards because the format was already marginal and it wouldn't represent a significant economical threath to let users copy commercial tapes. As a matter of fact, we could say the AGC circuit in VHS is "more precise" than in Beta as it responds quicker.

No, it's that the AGC is on the input. Ever try to connect a pre-beta/VHS black and white camera to a VCR??? no dice if it's a VHS< even a pro VHS, but Beta was made with a wider range of acceptable input tolerances so therefor it can accept a B&W camera. Such as this one, which I have one of: http://www.labguysworld.com/Museum008_005.htm

_@_v - this has got to be the coolest item description for a beta auction...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3049495411

"1 CUBIC FT. OF BLANK BETA TAPES (66 COUNT)"

_@_v - that has got to be one bigass snail to have a foot the size of 66 beta tapes...

Yeah instead of mini-me he'd be Mega-me...

Lucky me ,still got one L500 HiGrade tape.Sealed.

Sony HiPacking Betamax 150mNtsc BI:1h BII:2h BIII:3hPal/Secam 2h 10min

L500BT

Tapes

http://www.cjav.com.tw/product.htm#

Of course AGC is on the input !!! Where do you expect it to be ??

mega-meep

__________________@_______________________oo - MEEEP!

can anyone help as to repairing a slo 1700 machine thats for sale here in nz, seller say's the '' ic from the pcb '' is missing from the motor servo circuit, can anyone help.

An IC is an integrated circuit. A chip. a PCB is a board (Don't know the exact phrase). It's missing a chip. you'd pretty much need another SLO-1700 to get one out of, and you really must wonder why the chip is missing...

I have inherited a sony sl-c6ub that i assume works but was put away when they went vhs. I dont like to throw things away that might be usefull to someone. Does anybody want to collect it? I am in Nottingham.

PCB stands for Printed Circuit Board.

this is the responce, IC was taken out because it was faulty and was lost before it was ordered from Sony. Now, the only way to fix it is to find the schematic diagram. As far as I know, Sony NZ have a diagram (I have seen the copy). I remember that the IC was CXA.... is this machine worth taking a gamble on for $ 30 /40.

The SLO-1700, if I remember, (Being that I am in a NTSC country and not a PAL country), is a Beta HiFi industrial deck. For $ 30 -40, it's probably worth it (what's the exchange rate??? well even in US dollars it's worth it, but in US dollars that's pusing it). Industrial decks are very well made but sometimes they can show up pretty much worn to a nub. If it's in nice shape then I'd go for it. Also PAL Beta HiFis are more rare, so that increases its value over, say, a NTSC model SLO-1400.