"I SEE DUMB PEOPLE!"

Anyone ever broke down that word "gastropod"? Boils down to "gastro"- of the stomach, and "pod"- of the feet. Ergo "gastropod"- stomach-feet. Does this mean that the guy that said "An army travels on it's stomach" was illuding that soldiers were snails?

Brenda that phrase (which I think belongs to Napoloeon) eludes to the fact that an army is really only as good as it's food supply. Before the days of the 'MRE' airdrop, supplying food for an army on the march meant that a considerable amount of time in a military campaign consisted of foraging though the countryside for something to eat. This meant that battles were fought as close to the harvest seasons as practicable (and that armies were pretty much like locusts in the devastation they left to occupied lands). Even Hitler had to time his war of annihilation to the light of the harvest moon. He learned too late that all the Blitzkriegs in the world are no match against a Kansas wheatfield or an Iowa cornfield or a Texas cattle ranch...

But I'm assuming you knew that already.

:P I was hoping when I checked this morning there'd be more crossing of eyestalks.. :)

Does anybody knows how were Singapore betas/tapes??

I think they use PAL and runs 220V 50hz (?)

I mostly remind that they use multisystem devices?

A multisystem SuperBETA HI-FI with BISHB recording /playback and SuperBETA-PRO in PAL/SECAM/MESECAM????

Well, also a worldwide tunner with MTS Stereocast, ZWEITON, NICAM,...And S-VIDEO input/output?

Best link I've found for country by country TV standards:

http://www.tvradioworld.com/directory/Television_Standards/page6.asp

And an explanation of those standards:

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/WorldTV/compare.htmlhttp://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/WorldTV/broadcast.html

By the way, Singapore uses PAL system(s) B (VHF) and G (UHF) Nicam stereo 230VAC/50Hz

It seems that Andy might get more than the BIN price he'd asked for his Beta 300. Guess the previous high bidder should've bit the bullet and paid the BIN as it's less than $3 bux shy.

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The 'Continental' Snailie (uses cigarette holder)

Don't you know smoking is out? Snailie does lines now.. :P

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Snailie's into black tar heroin now

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The seller of that SL-3000 just bid for that broken SL-2000 I was looking at...

Weirdness... Especially since he "Doesn't have time to tear it down"... I wonder where he will find time for the SL-2000??? And why he is surrendering a supposedly servicable trinicon camera... When he is just trying to pick up and SL-2000.... Hmmm... could he be a part-time snail?

Sean

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"SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIENDS!"

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and in the police station...

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Snailie's been shot!

Saw the better part of a movie called "Spy Games"... Good movie, and in the end, a JVC VHS Deck buy the farm when a tape loaded with C4 is played!!!! Yeah!

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And the reason snailie got shot AT the police station? He tried to crawl off w/ the cop's donuts!

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can we please stop the drug references and the "snail" diagrams this is a beta chat page

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Sean you mentioned a JVC C4 VCR that done blowed up real good?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1373464810

lists a Sanyo VCR-7200 with a 'ticking sound' during playback...

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Olive:

All I have to say about that display of defiance is ROTFLMAO!!!!!

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So that no-one can say I didn't include any Beta content, I'd like to congratulate Andy on his Beta 300 now passing the BIN prce at $166 with 8hrs to go

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This is going to be fun! - My SLHF PAL 1700 got destroyed by flood, (South England) my insurance company is trying to replace it with a JVC vhs deck! Talk about adding insult to injury- a JVC and a VHS. I my local Sony centre expecting help but no - one there knew waht a Betamax was!!!. What can you do in this situation. I am not prepared to swap my 1700 (which took long enough to get) for a Naff JVC VHS deck - any ideas of how I might obtain a resonable offer.

The 1700 is a commercial machine, isn't it? If you can find documentation proving that, you could AT LEAST get a commercial VCR out of it... Wprth a try. I would explain, fully, how all your tapes are different from the JVC one they want to fob off to you, like LP and cassette, basically say it would be worthless to give a CD player to someone with an LP collection. That's the best I can do...

Sean

A jvc got blowed up and we dont have people from the SPCIVD showing up? (Society for prevention of cruelty to inferior video decks)

I feel sorry for all the Beta owners in Prag. I was wondering if the poor 1700 is really a total loss. Couldn't you just hose the thing down with clean water and wait for it to dry? Assuming it has't rusted out or been smashed or the chemicals in capaciters aren't leaking or reacting, there might be a chance it could be saved?

But the slo-1700 can't it be revised?

Always on sony's owner's manual it says "Disconnect the device and bring it to the nearest Sony service center"

Well, if someone who thinks it can be repaired swap it to you for a 950 (well, if he has got three 950s)

hmmmm-_@_¼¼-l[¼¼¼==] Herr Doktor Snailie listens with stethescope...

Hi Betagang! Got back from my little vacation break yesterday. Read all the past week's postings and I guess there was a little bit of a dust-up over snalie-types, the resale-value of Betas, and the used beta market. It was quite interesting, and a little bit of controversy now and then on this board is probably healthy for this site, and it certainly keeps things lively around here, if nothing else!

Got home and found the SL-HF450 I bought from the west coast has arrived! The unit was well-packed and arrived in excellent working condition. I have it hooked up to my secondary editing suite, and the unit is performing flawlessly; nice deck! I just checked through ebay, and try as I might I could not resist the urge to pick up that very rare Canadian Magnasonic Beta VCR (looks to be a Sanyo VCR4400 clone). Used BIN and picked it up for 59 bucks. This is only the third or fourth Magnasonic beta I've seen on ebay in the last 2 1/2 years, so this will deserve a nice place in my collection of rare and strange collectible beta VCRs. I'll let you all know more about this rare model when I get it in the mail inthe coming weeks. Howard

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I have to say, Franny, thank you for making a mistake... It makes me feel better... I've NEVER been able to get multi-line stuff right the first try...

Sean

congrats to Andy and his SL-HF 300 making a decent $255.99 bux on E-bay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1372472431

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Huh. Whoever decided to bid instead of BIN made a mistake... Ah, well, good for Andy, and we all like him! Isn't that silly, that, even though he offered a reasonable reserve and BIN, he still got near snail prices?

Sean

*sigh. Well, maybe people enjoy using snail logic? Or they've gotten so accustomed to snail prices they think Andy's a snail too? Hey andy by the way how is the SL-HF300 as a Super beta going?

Hey Jesse! Could you tape 60 Minutes tonite? Our retard cable company Slime Warn 'er is taking it's snailie time fixing an outage just when something interesting is on. I wanted the story about synesthesia...

Thanks!

Cable came back up in time for me to tape what i wanted on 60 minutes II (electric boogaloo?)

Thanx for the "trophy" .. SLeeeeeechh I guess. I was pleased to see the unit fetch $259.I just paid a $375 traffic ticket earlier this week, and it has hurt me. Bastids taking allme money away...

Say Andy, How's my VCRs comming? Just curious since tomorrow I leave for Hawaii, hopefully to bring back a souvenier of the beta variety, so I was hoping for an update before I largely loose contact for ten days...

Thanks!

Sean

Doesn't that seem to be the case that whenever you make any extra money you get socked with some extra expense that wipes out whatever you made?

I hope the Betas in Passau ,Dresden, Dessau, Magdeberg... can learn to swim. If you can't get them to high ground at least put them on top of your other equipment.Of course all this rain and water is sure to drive out the gastropods

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Sean

Gee for what Andy won for his Beta 300 and 20 bux you could afford the $275 BIN price for Snailie's SL-2000 system up for bid...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1373715405

Throws in the car charger and one of those damned RMT-151s

Did he like sleech a whole warehouse full of those blasted things?

Aww snails are so cute when they're young...

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1373743163

longplayvinylsnail's SLS-600 $135 start $ 200 BIN

you can still bring up the page that he BIN'd it for $125 from...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1371751579

hardly even waited for the packing boogers to settle before flipping this one..

RM-E50 Editor http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1372931541

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Lead singer Trent Reznail of 9-inch Snails with headphones on.(If you'd break open the piggy bank and replace that 14" VGA monitor it would be life-size)

Boycott Sony for what they did to Beta. Sanyo SuperBeta HiFi (do not add salt).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1373018797

"pretty pleeease with salt on top for all the nice beta sleeching snailies out there DO NOT BID if you are a SNAIL"

gleech.. none of my Spamyos have worked so screw'em

If any UK residents are interested, I am selling a SL-T20 ME (at a loss) no snailing here.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1373006559

It must be some strange C -30 deviant, Palsite do not acknowledge its existence. And its a silly red colour.

Trent Reznail rocks the mic with the pantyhose...

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"I want to sleech you like a gastropod! I want to sleech you on the inside..."

Did anyone else get flamed with a pack of Nigerian Bank Scam e-mails?

You know the one that basically says "We're a bunch of dumb Africans who somehow managed to get millions of dollars into a bank account but can't figure out how to get it out and won't you please help us by giving out your bank account numbers?"

Maybe if once I ever recieved one of these scam letters and I didn't know better I might momentarily get taken in but if you keep sending me endless variations of the same damned scam, I've pretty much been inoculated against them...

The Nigerian scammers are harvesting names from this site. It took 4 months for them to find me again after changing my email address. For some entertainment, see snopes2.com/inboxer/scams/nigeria.htm and buddyweiserman.com

Can someone please help me with this problem:seet top part of the following site: http://www.geocities.com/mick_aka/stuff/

I bet you the snails are giving them our information. ___@¼¼ psst.. here you go [Info] thanks ¼¼@____

Those goddamn bank scam messages! "I got $18.5M big one's and I need a place to put it! How about your account?" One !@#*$%^& idiot sent the same message to me today EIGHT times! My email here is an alias, so I can change it anytime I like.

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Well I admit that I get a little bit of joy at sending them down the 'memory hole'...

get this before snailie snags it and flips it for hundereds!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1374003053

SL-HF 600 at $49 start $89 BIN

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Damn...the BIN chance is gone!

I was gonna buy that one and dangle it out on front of snailie for about $150...just to see if he'd bite...

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_@_< alternate snail for people who can't find the ¡ (alt-shift-8 on my mac) or ¼ (alt-0)or ° (alt-5) characters. Since I'm using a Mac I can't help wonder if they're the same for Windoze users

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snailie from the air...

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Your characters are, in order: <alt 0161> ¼ <alt 0188> and <alt 0186>

For some reason, the first and last ones don't post on here when I try them..

darn! brenda beat me to it. Hmmm I wonder what the keystrokes in Linux are? :P

SLO - 1700 Insurance update: - After I was offered the JVC VHS deck, I contacted Sony both the domestic and industrial side. NO HELP AT ALL!!! - My insurance company will only replace with the VHS deck or cash value of the VHS deck. The trouble is I cannot find any information from anywhere that can verify that this is a flagship duplicating machine. Even the Sony Pro dept said it was "Old Hat"!!!! - How can I back up my Laserdisc collection (since they too are now discontinued) to a VHS entry level deck that does not ignore macrovision etc. Any more ideas of what to do - I did think that Sony Would be more help. They were none! and it took hours of phone calls to achieve this.

Hello there !, if someone can help me, please, I have an old sanyo VRC 500 Betamovie video camera wich I can´t use as a recording device because I have not a Betamax VCR and, this kind of cassettes are not available in our stores, so I decided to use the camera in a way alike closed circuit surveillance system, but before I risk myself inside, it would be of great help if someone can tell me from wich point of the electronic card of this model (or other alike camera) can I obtain a video signal capable of being either feed directly trough the "video in" terminals, or through an oscilator for establishing the carrier frecuency for feeding trough the "antenna in" terminal of a TV receiver.

Hi there, I was wondering if someone could answer the following question for me. I'm having a bit of a disagreement with some of my co-workers. They all saythat beta tapes were larger than vhs tapes in the late 70's and 80's and that beta came out before vhs. I disagree, I think beta came out second and thatbeta tapes were smaller. Could someone please help solve this mystery me.

Thanks,Emma

Emma, the Beta format was indeed introduced about a year before VHS was. The first beta VCR was marketed in 1975; the first VHS unit was not introduced until around mid-1976. Beta and VHS use the same type of tape (1/2 inch magnetic video tape), but the VHS cassettes are about 3/4 inch wider than Beta cassettes, and about a half inch deeper, so VHS cassettes are larger than Beta cassettes in both width and depth, even though they both use the same type of 1/2 inch magnetic tape. Howard.

Anyone know a good place in the UK to get replacement video heads for sony and/or sanyo beta machines? Please email me, any help is much appreciated.

Arrgh! I'd sure prove MY co-workers wrong if they started up with stuff like that! :P LOL

I would just take one of each of my collection to work with me.. :P I have Beta, Hi-8, DVD, LD, SVCD, VCD, S-VHS, VHS (in order of preference). Wish I still had some of my SelectaVision discs and U-matic stuff.. and what was the old Sanyo format? V-matic I think, that looked like a largish 8-track tape..

SL-HFT7 b.i.n. $105. Just wire your speakers up to its built in amplifier.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1373874675

Ultra Mega sleechies to the snail!

Got my SL-2710 today and sure enough it wasn't loading tapes. The fix was easy enough, I replace the loading gears out. While I was checking it I notice the presetter buttons weren't working so I dug out some tact switched and changed them out (though I noticed that a bad solder joint bridging two separate leads my have been the culprit). Unfortunately I can't test the tuner yet as a major thunderstorm swept through town leveling power lines everywhere. Power's been restored but the cable TV is still out.

A question though. Is the SL-2710 not supposed to power up when you put in a tape with the machine turned off? My SL-HF 300 powers on when you stick in a tape but I don't know if that's the case with the 2710. It's so nice to beat the auction snails and get a decent Beta for a decent price and with the MLV-1100 adapter I'll have MTS stereo recordings from all my local cable stations...

when they get the cables back up...

The SL-2710 is functioning normally. The powerswitch has to be "on" in order forthe unit to accept a tape, or eject. The SL-HF300 was among one of the first SonyBeta units to accept a tape without powering up first, or eject without powerup first.Hope that info helps, Andy

Someone in here mentioned a Daewoo DVD player that could be reprogramed to be zone free and macrovision disabled. Someone know the model number, and how to go about the programming? They have a model of Daewoo on sale here, and if it's the one, we want to pick one up and get the work done on it.

Crt_Tech requires creative, competent,data transfer technicians.

_@_¼¼ - someobdy must be trawling chatpages with some sort of computer programme...

Eh... What's up Doc? How come you ain't usin' Beta Doc? Haven't you 'hoid' dat you can see 20% better with SuperBeta - and ya don't even need to eat carrots?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1374228261

Bugs Bunny SuperBeta T-shirt.

Yesterday I was very lucky cos I got an old Dynamichron L-125, which stilled factory sealed in boxin a shop at only 2€. I guess they still have them because of its short length (I saw they also had L-250s but they hadn't put them in the stand or they haven't got any more)They are like classic beta tapes, not like the awful new ones and they (In my oppinion) are better than new ones in beta and superbeta picture quality (they aren't suitable for PRO mode)If someone ever goes to barcelona I can tell them the address of this place. lease feel free to eail me. Regards,

Casimir

PS: In the atpe it says it is a Dynamichron L-125 SD (what does SD means???)What does AVTS stands for (AVTS NICAM decoder, AVTS parallel IF board)

I am looking for a website that sells used betamax tapes. Bulk erased if possible. I live in the US and as such am looking for a vendor that deals with US dollars. I know I came across one about a month ago that sold used tapes at like 90 tapes for $50 or so. Just like me, I had to re-install windows and lost the book mark and haven't found that page again. But in any event, I'm looking for used betamax videos at about 1$ each or so. If anyone knows of such a website, please email me and let me know. Thank you.

Elmer Fudd: Be vewy vewy qwiet, I'm huntin' wabbits...wid my twusty supabetamowie..haaahawaha

Well that damned SL-2710 is yet another 'office tragedy' in my continuing quest for the ultimate Beta system. For no good reason the video head froze up (as in stopped turning but still imparting electrical resistance to being moved) For a while it would unfreeze for a few plays but then freeze up again till no amount of coaxing and/or begging would induce it to rotate.

Don't bother telling me what went wrong because the piece-o-feces is now rubble on the porch and some scraps parts in the basement. And no rude comments about me being the 'grim reaper of Betas. I'm feeling bad enough as it is. Probably just 'end it all' and buy a JVC deck or something...

Anybody need an SL-2710 loader assembly,capstan or reel drive? How about the display board, face plate with flipper door or the cover. The tuner board and a few others are intact.

I've got the SL-2710 manual and the RMT-318 remote for sale if someone wants to make an offer. I also have spare copies of an MLV-1100 MTS adapter manual if somebody needs that as well. The MTS adapter (and it's original manual) I'm keeping for my SL-HF 300 but if somebody made an offer sweet enough I might let it go. _@_v$$$

Now I think I'll go to the beach, gather up a bucket of pond snails, crack them open and feed them to some hungry minnows.

re: dead SL-2710

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Brenda. RE macrovision / multi regional DVD. Most Cyberhome dvd players are macrovision free and can be made multi region via secret menu. They are aso very cheap here in the UK. £99 in http://www.richersounds.com

This particular Daewoo deck (which we are told by someone here is the one (a one?) that can be easily modified, and says he will do the mods for us, and is on sale for $89..

I wonder if when the electronics industry and recording industry executives gathered together to carve up the world into 'regions' for the DVD format, they borrowed the meeting room of the Trilateral Commision and/or Council on Foreign Relations or the Illuminati or were they staying at the Bildeberg Hotel or did they book time at the Skull & Bones clubhouse...

or did they go to Snailie's place...

hmmmm....... yuk. I want a region, Microvision free DVD player just so I can say I've got one. Hehehehe..

Hi Joe -

Regarding videotapes, you can probably find that seller with creative google searching. You might want to check out these auctions as well - the below link is a list of a seller's auctions. The last eight listed are for betacam oxide tapes that are great for betamax units - better than any high-grade tape you can buy. I've never bought from this seller, but these look like a pretty good deal to me. Obviously, you do NOT want to buy the metal ("SP" or "MA") tapes, but the BCT-20G's (~L500 length) and BCT-30G's (~L750 length) look like good lots to look into. I wouldn't recommend the 3M lot. The tapes are fine, but the labels are impossible to remove from the tapes. Imagine - an adhesives company too. You can't get those darn labels off.

In case the link doesn't work, the seller's name is jon-dude . As I mentioned, I have never purchased from this person. But lots of sellers sell these, and they are an often overlooked bargain I think mainly because people do not know enough about betacam tapes to bid on them.

Good luck.

http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=jon-dude&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25

I've purchased tapes from this guy before http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&userid=yacoli

He sells generous lots of Betacam Oxide tapes that are of pretty good quality but you will be peeling a lot of stickers off them. Seems studio techies are pretty blithe about layering scads of stickerage on poor little tapes...

make that http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&userid=yacoli&include=0&since=30&sort=3&rows=0

if you want to see all of them. He hasn't had a Betacam lot up in a while...

Shame you killed the SL-2710. The problem it has was a very simple fix. It would have involved cleaning the brown glue off of the videohead stator hall sensor. If that would have not fixed it, then a stator assembly would have. I have a dead SL-2710 here myself.. got killed by a powersurge. how bad off is yours now, are the main boards toast? Or still intact?Andy

Regarding the betacams: I've bought 4 or 5 lots of tapes off that yacoli guy and have been satisfied w/ every one! However, I didn't have any major trouble regarding labels on the tapes themselves, but many of the cases had layers of "content" labels stuck on the back of them. Actually made the whole lot easier to peel off, though! You're right that yacoli hasn't had any up in quite awhile. He once had tons. Maybe he finally sold out? :(

Finally, I've never biught from that jon-dude (or whatever) guy, but he has quite a few lots of BCT-30G's up and I need to replenish my supply (got ample 20G's). Might grab a couple of those auctions! But to the guy wanting some, if you go the betacam route, be sure to look closely at the pictures as the 30G's come in both large and small cassettes (What was Sony's thinking on that one??). It's the small's you'd be after!