i want to chat with you,i am walter schemid

Ditto what Dave said. And you can cut the "we" bit out unless it is some sort of split personality thing.

WOOOOOOO, I guess we hit a nerve with this creature.

You come on this page as BETADOC, MAXBETA and your really DOCTOR1024.5

I originally just posted a moron that bought a NEC for over $50.00.. I had no idea that the Moron was you.

I then went back to eBay because I found it funny that you were so embarrassed about your purchases. THEN I saw the other gems you buy.. Like the TOSHIBA ...LOL and the bunch of SANYO'S.

Your just a funny buyer. I know why you use so many names, I would too if I bought the garbage you buy.

And we cant forget the Peewee tapes and XXX tapes.

Just use your real name and enjoy your bidding on eBay.. Because I do ..LOL

Lets all calm down and take a deep breath, for me I don't really care if its NEC sanyo or anything just as long as it works or is a fixer upperI have a number of Betas that still work and I still use every day, so lets all please get back to what this site was for, as a forum for betaThank you

Jan--there is something important you need to understand about good ol’ “Mike”--he is pursuing a personal vendetta against me in public while he cowardly hides under his set of fake names. You can tell this is a personal vendetta because he only goes after me, despite the fact that there are hundreds of eBay deals every day that one could poke fun at if they had no life. Good ol’ “Mike” has no interest at all in giving the other buyer of the NEC a hard time, even though he spent more than twice what I spent. You see, it’s not really about the VCR, he just wants to use that as another opportunity to come after me.

Apparently, good ol’ “Mike” thinks this site was created so he could hijack it as a forum for his own twisted purposes? Others have already commented on the fact that good ol’ “Mike” is sick and requires professional attention, so that is certainly not in question. All he needs is any kind of trigger from me to go off. You see, just like a mongrel dog can be conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell, good ol’ “Mike” will respond to any post from me. So, anyone who uses [email protected] will get an immediate and idiotic response from that cowardly mongrel. Try it because after all, don’t we ALL need to hear more of what good ol’ “Mike” has to say? I mean, he must really think highly of all of us if he thinks we need him to keep copy/pasting his old posts and saying the exact same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again.

What more can be said about good ol’ “Mike?” Well, maybe the rest of you can tell good ol’ “Mike” how valuable his posts have been to you, how much you’ve learned about Betas from him, how much you’ve learned about respect for others, and how you are so looking forward to reading more of his esoteric entries on this site.

Dan, Why dont you read before defending, it wasnt $20.00 it was $50.50 with shipping and the person with 3 names is the one Gloating about his purchase of the NEC.

if you took the time to read , you would see that this Creature uses 3 names and is not a nice person, but I guess to you he is??? How's the weather in Denmark?

Mike what are the problems?? i dont get it man! $20.50 for a nec beta are almost the same as it was for free that nec looks so nice. you can come to me with a pal model i dont have!then i pay a very good price for it. sometimes if you collect something its not a Q of monny. look at people there collect stamps etc. they pay so much for some rare one, lol and its are only a piece of paper. actualy its are up to the people what they want! if you want a beta vcr then go buy one if not then dont buy one, but most importen please respect other people what they do. best regards Jan H.Pedersen

Very intersting BETADOC, MAXBETA and not to forgot DOCTOR1024., you found another moron that spent even more money than you did for this piece of dreck.

Its funny how you had to search for a week to find another Moron like yourself that spent even more money than you did .. I didn't think that 2 morons existed. At least Moron #2 bought one that worked. I'm sure the one you got had belts that were fine, so it would only take 20 minutes to take it out of the box, check it, repair it and then crow about it on the internet.

While your searching to try to defend your NEC purchase, did you find other people that bought Peewee herman films and XXX filthy films??? Thats disgusting...and what about that electric needle --LOL is that what you need after you find out what you bought on eBay..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5765093405

Does anybody know of a reliable Sony engineer who would be able to service/repair my SLO 1700 in the Bournemouth, Dorset area?I also have a Sony C30 to dispose of for free (not working)

That NEC looks kinda like the electronic wonders the JS&A - the working man's Sharper Image - would've put out in the 80s. They probably would've sold it at a deep discount providing you bought a certain amount of blank tape (again at a competitive price) from them.

Anyone remember them? Or that other company you'd see in the back pages of Popular Sciene/Mechanics DAK? I think they made CB radios (the original internet) back in the day...

Interesting....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39830&item=5771410380&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

and for just $91.00...oh and don't forget the $ 30. 00 shipping for a total of only $121.00

One of the odder 'suggested' applications for a used Beta SL-2500...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5773029352

"This could be a backup for your old unit or a recorder for your security system."

With the minimum $46 bux you'd have to spend to win this and take it home you could grab a new VHS VCR off the impulse buy blisterpack rack by the checkout counter at WalMart and still have enough change for a couple tapes if you really needed a security system VCR...

You can try clicking on this Brenda...

http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ShowCoreAskSellerQuestion&requested=thedropzone01&iid=5771366021&frm=284&redirect=0&SSPageName=PageAskSellerQuestion_VI

It takes you to a contact member page without the item in question.

The item number was 5771366021

Olive,

RATZ!! I saw your post above just a bit too late. I wish they wouldn't have taken the 'contact seller' links off of completed auctions, I would love to ask if they are going to relist. :(

I wonder how many times this will get relisted and remain unsold...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5772222095

Pervue thinks he can get $ 200 + $32 for shipping for an SL-2000 outfit because he has the boxes and manuals when one that has the ACP-220 power brick (you might want to get that one Brenda) and the carry case is going untouched at a mere $50 start.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5771366021

Other SL-2000 outfits on offer include this one still at $11 bux

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5772641899

And this one at $55 that hasn't broken the reserve price and probably won't unless a snail snaps at it...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5772152255

Checking the last couple weeks completed listings and the highest winning bid for an SL-2000 outfit was $46

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5768403792

Next highest bid was for $36 bux

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5768225972

$26 bux would've bagged you an SL-2000, AC-220 and an HVC-2200 camera outfit...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5771164113

By the way, be watching 1ziggi1 for a couple SL-2000s and an SL-HF400 he picked up in one lot for $50...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5770253192

hello

Olive,

Those are called PAL connectors. I have a few spares, I'll send back one of each (m/f) when I return your disc.

This is for HOMER: just a correction, his final price for the hifi rewinder was $50.50.never forget shipping. most suckers do but when they mention what they pay they conveniently leave that out ha ha

For the video-out you need a BNC connector or adapter. Not sure what the antennae/aerial plug is called - I have an SL-T50ME that needs a European aerial lead if I ever decide to put it in my video grid so it would help me to know...

I have just bought a Sanyo Betacord VTC 5150 recorder, and need to get a video out lead and connector for this machine. Could anyone tell me what type of video out connector is on this machine, please?Many thanks.Stuart.

NEC aka the Nippon Electric Company mostly developed and built their own Beta VCRs although they sometimes OEM'd from Sony. Although they built a couple portabetas on their own (VC-P1000 & VC-P1040) they had a rebadged SL-F1 (VC-P600) in their Japan Home Market product line as well as OEM-ing a few Betamovie models.

NEC also developed time-lapse security VCRs for the Navco company.

I AM IN NEED OF CABINET PARTS FOR A TOSHEBIA MODEL 8600 BETAMAX VCR. THE FRONT FACE PIECE OF THE CABINNET IS DAMAGED AND I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO REPLACE IT. IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE REPLACEMENT PARTS CAN BE ORDERED OR ANYONE WHO HAS ANY PARTS TO SELL PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT [email protected]

Reading this last post brings a strange feeling of deja-vu...

Somehow it doesn't relate to me having a large library of Beta pr0n.

Regarding NECs: Are NEC decks OEMed from someone, or is/was NEC a subsidiary of another big nippon corporation ?

I feel like $20.50 for a Hi-Fi tape winder is not such a bad deal.

With so many great deals on the Bay, why would any moron decide to purchase this example of Betacrap:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5765093405

Maybe for a planter? How about wheel chock for the SUV? Some people are just looking for problems....or maybe the seller wanted out of the auction and bid it off. I just had to write this to point out an ignorant buyer. BTW, this dude Maxbeta/Betadoc and the winner of this tank purchases X-rated filthy movies to play on our revered Betamax machines. That is an outrage.

Scammers pick up these email adresses? Yes, I noticed that too. Take a look at http://www.scamorama.com for more info on these frauds.

This site seems to be the first stop on all the Nigerian scammers eMail collection rounds. Expect an assload of poor Africans who need YOUR help in abscounding with small fortunes left by people with a remarkable propensity for dying in tragic car/plane crashes. And doing so without any heirs.

To the above personIf some people want to buy what some people might call junk that is there business, I have found this page to be very helpfull, allthough one person got my email and tried to scam me but anyway it just nice to see that there is alot of beta fans out there

I normally just follow the proceedings on this page, but I feel I must make comment. What has transpired in the last few days is "much ado about nothing". One guy knocks what a buyer purchased, the buyer responds with vitrial way beyond what is called for. One guy has 2 names, the other guy has 3 names. It is all a bit ridiculous. Let's get back to discussing what this page is all about and stop the pomposity and silliness.

Your correct Olive, its just when I saw this unit without the PS and battery I had a vision of MAXBETA, BETADOC and DOCTOR1024.5 hooking it up to the car battery in their car with 50 ft of wire..The thought of the NEC and that unit on their table is funny.LOL. I cant wait to see what these guys but next!LOLOLO Boys, dont forget to hook the postive lead to the + on the battery..

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Reel to Reel tapes transfered to CD ,2 or 4 tracks mono / Stereo any speed from 1 7/8 ips upto 15 ips , LPs and Audio cassettes also transfered to CD please contact me for details.

That's actually not a bad VCR to bid for if you have or can get a PS and battery for it.

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5771083470

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOOOLOLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO

dcotor can surly pickem ..LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOLLLLLL

Hello you all, I did buy that NEC and a few other beautys and some educational tapes .. You might call them filthy tapes.. I buy these tapes to use as head cleaning tapes. I DO NOT watch them. Check the Sony SL-3000 I just got. It didnt work even tho the seller said that it did, but i put it next to the NEC and played the head cleaning tape and it started working. Be back soon to describe other gems I have outbid others to get. I hope my kids Maxbeta and Betadoc dont watch those nasty tapes I have....must hide them till they need adult verification.

With so many great deals on the Bay, why would any moron decide to purchase this example of Betacrap:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5765093405

Maybe for a planter? How about wheel chock for the SUV? Some people are just looking for problems....or maybe the seller wanted out of the auction and bid it off. I just had to write this to point out an ignorant buyer. BTW, this dude Maxbeta/Betadoc and the winner of this tank purchases X-rated filthy movies to play on our revered Betamax machines. That is an outrage.

Betadoc... don't let the idiots get you down. Like you I have a blast repairing and restoring Beta machines and have quite a few cluttering up the house. Most folks don't understand why, but so what? I could care less what other people think of my hobbies. Life is too short and it's my money...

To those elite and eclectic elders who feel they have the right to sit in judgement of others, we anxiously await your most efficacious, educational, and epitheisized opinion on this Beta on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5770472353&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Will the judges effervescently label this another "Beta-anchor" that sold for over $55? Stay tuned for their extraordinary opinion and ecumenical pontification from on high from their etheiral environs.

RCA never made a betamax if you noticed he just signed up on ebay yesterday, Too funny

What people will resort to to cash in on the used Betamax market!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&?ViewItem&item=5771840338

RCA Selectevison VHS VCR being tauted as a "Betamax" that he can't test because he "doesn't have tapes" to test it with...

I didn't say theirs were different. I said that mine was different from theirs. In any event, now that you've been exposed for trolling yourself, you're hardly in a position to cast stones. But I understand your outrage about two or more people who share an opinion different from yours, for which you can find support only in imaginary people.

But that doesn't matter to you. Most antisocial degenerates don't give much thought to their hypocrisy and hate, and tend apply the standards they could never possibly achieve themselves to others as a form of wishful thinking about how their lives might have been.

I hope that your buffoonish behavior on this board ultimately yields some at least unintended cathartic good to you for the benefit of everyone. But at some point, you are going to need some outside help. That's obvious.

Believe it.

My last lot of approx 100 beta tapes with TV films on (quite a few westerns). Bargain price £10 the lot. Buyer collects London E4, These are UK PAL recordings, some in HI FI, not original but branded tapes. Tel 07986756696

Betadoc and Maxbeta are both: vt-williston-cuda1h4-240.sbtnvt.adelphia.net --> Mike and me are AOL. Hope this helps.

I realise that AOL is not a popular provider and adelphia.net is cooking ..LOL Get alife and get off those NEC drugs

Interestingly, it's alfonso/mike whose posts both come from the same AOL IP.

Now look at mine, maxbeta and betadoc - different IPs.

Look who can formulate coherent sentences. Now look who cannot.

Look at who can communicate useful, on topic information on this board. Now look at who is just a gadfly, spewing bile and adding nothing to the topic, the hobby or civilized ineraction.

But by all means, please continue ranting. Better to find you at your computer venting your limitless anger than riding city buses or being anywhere near socialized people.

To those who want to impose their opinions on others. Just think for a moment.

The majority of the world thinks that collecting or owning any sort of BETA machine is odd past the point of laughter.

To me collecting them and fixing them it is an enjoyable hobby. I keep the machines I like but am happy to fix any model. In the community, there are a lot of older folk out there with their family memories on tape and the only machine they are confident to operate is their pushbutton BETA unit without the bells and whistles whose clock they can still see. Get perspective and play nice PLEASE!

Roderick,

I might be able to help you with parts for the SLO-420P and or some information. Trouble is I am in Melbourne.

Dave,

It does not work as simple as that. If the tuner is shot and you don't want to fix it but want to record programs to beta then you can use the line out of a VHS machine even or a TV to your betas line in and use that tuner to tune in the station.

Ok maybe someone can help me, I have a Sanyo Model #4650 that I picked up for $5, It seems to work through the RCA jacks but I think the tuner is shot. I was thinking of using a RF converter and a TV converter but not sure if the RF converter will work backwords, going from cable in and out through the RCA jacks or somehow replacing the tunerAny Ideas?

StrangeDays, Betadoc and maxbeta please... stop the nonsence with the different names.. No 3 people could think that a NEC is anything but garbage. I see that you bid on XXX Movies.The way you praise this NEC you would think that just having that gem in your room would be enough.. maybe a blow up doll or even better a blow up NEC.

Your a Snail in hiding and you have been outed on this page.. Now live with it! Stay tuned for another name to answer this by Maxbeta!!!!

I think that the NEC VC-739E would be a great "niche" machine to specialize in. I can certainly understand the appreciation for it. There are Toshiba models like that too - arguably as good or better than most Sonys but just not very common/popular. I'd say the Sanyo 7250/Realistic 25 falls into that category as well. I looked at the auction that had initially been criticized here and didn't see anything about it worthy of commenting on here - if you want price-vs.-quality fodder for this board, check completed beta listings, highest prices first, and you will see some real jawdroppers - but at the same time, the rancorous overreaction to it is somehow not befitting a hobbyist with such a dedication to preserving such a quality piece of equipment. The sentiments expressed rather recklessly so far could all be written with a tone and subtlety that gets the point across without clobbering people with it - it's just a question of effort (and some applied intelligence). On the plus side, anything that increases awareness of different aspects of the hobby usually has some identifiable good to it, and despite the prevalent tone, that seems to be the case here. It's a pretty cool machine to which I hadn't previously paid much attention.

I agree, we should all get along , but buying crap and then bragging about it??? ... Thats just too much. At least I got a good laugh after seeing that NEC and I see he buys other gems..LOL You know what they say, one mans crap is another mans gold.. Gold Crap..LOL

Please why can't we just get along, people we are arguing over 20 year old tech!!

Betadoc, thats true, you do sound like a moron. I had to laugh when I saw that piece of crap that you spent $50.00 with shipping..LOL I might have a collection of crap, I mean great units thatIwould be happy to sell you for your collection.. As far as the NEC that you fixed in 20 minutes, please tell your tales somewhere else..What did you fix on the NEC the blinking clock.Your BS sound exactly other moron (MAX BETA) that posts on this page on a regular basis. So I guess you and MaxBeta have something in common.. 2 morons or the same moron?

Seems like neither side has done a lot to rate an observer preference in this NEC dustup.

To Max,that red f3 is identical to the Japanese f3 that I have,the writing on the red one is definately Japanese

Betadoc; Can you do alignment and repairs? I have a friend with a VC-N65EU that needs final adjustment to play and record properly.

Mike…I am the “moron” who bought the “eBay crap” to which you refer. I have Betas made by Sony, Sanyo, Toshiba, and NEC in my collection and I can tell you that the NEC betas are among the best.

This particular model, the NEC VC-739E, is a 4-head Beta HiFi that has lots of nice features (e.g., 3 slow motion and 2x speeds). I also happen to have 3 others, two of which had the same problem as the one listed. In other words, here is a machine that I know very well, know exactly how to fix, and even have an extra remote and manual to use with it. From the listing you can see that the machine is cosmetically excellent, so clearly there is no particular reason to believe that the machine has been dropped or been abused.

I’m sure you will be delighted to know that within 20 minutes of opening the box, without spending another penny I had the machine working like the day it was made. It was cleaned, nicely aligned, and every function worked perfectly. The extra VC-739 remote also worked it perfectly.

Some on this site have commented that the VC-739E made by NEC is the best non-Sony Beta HiFi ever made. Now, if you think I and the other two bidders are “morons” for buying “eBay crap” like this for $20.50, then I wonder what your opinion is of all the folks that buy 2-head non-HiFi machines like the Sony SL-2300 (not including the wired remote) and SL-2400 series machines for $250 and more. So let’s see, even by my math that seems to be more than 12 times as much as this “moron” paid for this now beautifully working 4-head HiFi NEC VC-739E (now with remote)!

Oh and by the way, this “moron” also just bought a Sony SL-HF900 for $49.99 that arrived yesterday in perfect shape along with a dozen L-750 tapes. I wonder what you must think of the buyer who just paid more than $380 for the same machine tonight?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5770292003&ssPageName=ADME:B:TB6:US:2

I’m looking forward to hearing your response...that is, after you get your head out of your ass and pull your big stinking foot out of your piehole….Best Regards, Betadoc

To mike about the ebay beta crapThe guy who won that NEC beta buys alot of beta machines including betamovies cameras. But you are right that one is a boat ancore

Anyone for tea?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5771290353

Betamax promotional tea mug.

The F3 is Japanese. The seller just assumes it's Tiawan ROC Chinese because that's where it had been purchased (must think all Asian text looks the same). Which is not to say Sony didn't have a production plant in Taiwan. I know that Sony had some US production facilities on the West coast for some products in the 80s.

With so many great deals on the Bay, why would any moron decide to purchase this example of Betacrap

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5765093405

Maybe for a planter? How about wheel chock for the SUV? Some people are just looking for problems....or maybe the seller wanted out of the auction and bid it off. I just had to write this to point out an ignorant buyer.

I thought the SL-F3 was Japanese, not Chinese:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5771237523&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT

Which is it?

I need some help with the SLO-420P I recently bought. I have rebuild the CD09 and the display is working again. I have repaired the loading mechanism, Stephan in Germany kindly send me a new gear, after decipering my very poor German ;-). But it still isn't working and the problem is that the problems cycle between a range of different issues. Sometimes it will load the tape, thread, unthread and eject the tape, this is the best scenario. Othertimes it may not load the tape at all, or not thread the tape. Sometimes the left reel motor goes ballistic and the threading motor develops a fit. And I could go on, did I mention the blinking Eject light? I am running out of ideas and was just curious if there is anybody in the Sydney area that could give me a hand? Or anybody anywhere with a spare C9 drive mechanisme? Thanks Roderick

Doc,

That site has lots of hints all right. I was surprised how many fixes there were against SLC34 as I don't think they are very common.

Looks like a shill bidding that got greedy. Expect to see that SL-HFR70 back on offer real soon...

Cancel some of last message.....I meant that I bought them on BETAMAX not, as I stupidly wrote, VHS.....Ta .....Neil

Hi there, I recently bought some John Entwhistle studio demos on vhs at an auction...unfortunately I was outbid on the delivery system ( SL-F1 with tuner/timer).....I would like to get hold of one of these or, if poss, find out if all betamax players are capable of delivering the audio from these tapes through phono-phono application on my stereo system.....help if you can.....Laters...Neil

Geez, a SL-HFR70 selling for over $400???!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5769417913&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&rd=1

Please explain

Hey,Roderick,that website Videocam is terrific

CCD-G5 video camera (NTSC) on offer...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7511589921

NEEDED TECH TIPS SONY BETA SL-HF840D OR PARTS MODE SWITCH ALINEMENT DECK FOR PARTS PHONE&FAX 410-282-4460 ASAP!

I have two sony SL-5800 vcr's and would like to know if anyone knows where I can get replacement belts for this unit, Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, RON

Congratulations, Olive. I'm sure you'll be a great mod.

Hi Sean, hope things are going well for you.

Take care, all, and stay well. :)

Found this really helpful page with trouble shooting tips for many Betamax models, back to SL-8000 !http://users.bigpond.net.au/vidcam/SONY.HTM

Scroll down the page and you'll find loads of repair suggestions.

I have plenty of Betamie spare bits if you can send a piccy of what you need.

Olive - so it was you who put their hand up. I saw that post. One thing. It seems impossible to exit that group. The unsubscribe emails don't seem to work.

Hello all, somehow got compelled to drop by after a year or so of abscence... don't ask why. Anyway, I'm wondering if there's a convenient way to get a new external power switch part for a Betamovie BMC-220. I've got one undergoing repairs and that particular part broke. Not the actual switch, just the plastic jigger that moves it. I can't proceed with repairs until this thing's replaced, and I don't want to but a whole unit for this piece...

My SL-HF 360 Betamax VCR....

http://profiles.yahoo.com/betamax_vcr_slhf360

just got made moderator of a Betamax VCR group...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/betamax/

Should be interesting...

From tomorrow evening (thurs 28) there will be a PAL Sony F1 & TTF1 on ebay and in a seperate auction a AC F1 mains unit/charger. All in working order (see auction details for full information)

John

Does anybody know where I can get C7 drive belts in the UK ?

Best regards John

Vast quantity of used L250, L500 (including Scotch PRO)& L750 PAL tapes of all makes FREE TO A GOOD HOME. These have seen very little use and most have only had a couple of passes in their lifetime.

All you have to pay is postage at the rate of £10.00 (UK only) per box of 10 tapes of your choice.

Best regards John

(UK) From tomorrow evening (Thurs 28) there will be a PAL Sony F1 + TTF1 kit and an ACF1 charger on e-bay. Both sets in working order.

Happy hunting.

Anybody know where I can get drive belts for a C7 from?

VAST QUANTITY OF L250, L500 & L750 PAL recorded tapes FREE to a good home. All sorts of makes and including some PRO Scotch versions. Most were used for recording archive material, which I have now transfered to DVD, so only two passes through a machine. All you have to pay is postage at the rate of £10.00 for a box of ten tapes or your choice. I will post to the UK only.

The tapes have a rich variety of 1980s TV programmes on them!!

I own a Toshiba V31b and would like to know if anybody can give me a hand with some self repair.It will not take a tape at all/no response when offering the tape.Is this a problem i can solve myself or would i need to take it to a High St shop.Any advice would be highlyappreciated.

Here s hoping,John.

The SL HF 900 wil play back BIs properly if it is either a Japanese unit or one that has had some parts left out of the US version put inside it. Several parts are needed to get it to record in BIs, the most expensive ebing a realy whihc is about $16- if that is left off the modification the machine can playback but not record BIs. I have had the full modification done to all my 900s and know about the partial one since when a relay was unavailable had the rest of the parts installed adn it played back BIs fine but did not record. You can hear a click when switching the record speeds from x-1 to x-2- it is this way on the 1000.

There is also an NEC deck which plays and records Bis

Found this interesting Korean Video Museum page.

http://www.kvm.or.kr/cgi-bin/webboard/main.cgi?board=videoc&number=23

This is the page with a BMC-100 and an SL-3100 on it. Page 9 of 12 devoted to live video recording equipment ....

http://www.kvm.or.kr/cgi-bin/webboard/main.cgi?board=videoc&number=7

There are several Sony cameras in this section of the "museum" including an HVC-3100 with an outboard viewfinder attached to it's light shoe.

http://www.kvm.or.kr/cgi-bin/webboard/main.cgi?board=videoc&number=21

Betamax has ab entry in Wikipedia...

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

Correction: The EDV-7500 does play B1SHB. My SLHF 900 plays B1SHB poorly, so I assume every model made after the 1000 plays B1SHB.

To Mad Beta Collector. Could you clarify your query about the V-8600? Are you not getting any back tension or do you suspect a loose part?

Looking at some innards pix of a V-8600, it looks like a brass strap holding some felt wrapped around the supply reel is what does the back tension. In most of the video decks I've had here's an adjustment screw holding the end of that strap thing around the base of the supply reel with the other end attached to the tape tension bar.

To get a best guess at good back tension I loosen the adjust screw and move the tension bar to it's tape-loaded position and tighten the adjust screw down. That usually does it.

To Samual - no point in trying to connect a BMC-100 top your VCR as it's a record-only camera with no playback or monitoring capability.

It looks as if I may be losing my source for blank tapes and was wondering where people out here are stil getting them at a reasonable price?

whoops I'm so stupid I meant V-8600 should've checked first! *embarrassed*

Hi I have just purchased a sony BMC 100P and matching vcr. I do not have the audio/video cables to connect the camera to the the vcr, however. Would anyone out there be gracious enough to suggest where I could buy some cables???? I am in Sydney, Australia. Thanking you in advance. Samuel

That Pervue guy has to relist again and again to get his price (80/90% relisting rate) and probably loses a lot in the relisting fees.

I love his meaningless load of krep ad copy, with phases like "that came to dominate the Beta industry" (for an SL-25 slimline Beta).

That'll teach me not to look at chatpage before posting...

LV-1901 combo TV/VCR...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5769065373

Local pickup only but he can arrange local shipping for a price...

I have a toshiba Beta 8080. the back tension is not in the tape path when the tape is inserted into the machine.. could this be that there is a spring missing or the belt is worn..? I have pictures of this problem. email me and I'll email the pics

Regards

Paul

Ebay Sony LV-1901 link

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5769065373

If anyone is interested, I have just listed a Sony LV-1901 Beta/TV combo on Ebay. Starting bid of $49.99. Ebay #5769065373

The TV and Beta Player work fine. It's in very good condition. Just needs a little cleaning due to dust from storage.

Paul

So here is capitalism at its best (or worst):

Buy a Beta off eBay for $125:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39830&item=5762188195

Resell it on eBay a few days later for a starting bid of $ 200: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=39830&item=5768947235&rd=1

So is this just a cool way to make money, or is it just an uncool way to make money from a poor sucker?

Shaun...I'm glad to hear your SLO-1700 is working better. I think the intermittency of the problem would be improved if you replaced the belts (unless it is due to the motors giving out). Also, try running things with the machine as "bare" as possible (no cassette top, no casing) to see if something could be rubbing.