In the day i had a Philips K9 colour set and also a Philips N1700 in my lounge room, Great units, but the N1700 was changed out for a early sony beta machine. Later on i upgraded the sony beta for a panasonic NV300. The then old N1700 had been stored for around 5 years and was bought back into service after a quick clean and belts replaced. Talk about being built like a battle ship. I still have the Philips K9, but the picture tube is starting to show it's age.
About 24 years ago (1999/2000) someone gave me a Philips N1702 together with a box of tapes. Never did get it to work, changed the belts but it would never complete the loading cycle. Managed to get a scrap machine (with broken video heads) and did some (servo) board swapping but it still had the same symptoms.
My N1702 always struggles to rewind all the tapes I have to the very beginning. I’ve changed the belts, cleaned it many times & rubber renewed the idler that drives the reels. When I’ve just cleaned & renewed it fares much better when I rewind straight afterwards but the next time I use the vcr, it just struggles again. I have a dozen or so tapes (some are SVR) but they all react the same. I’d be interested to find out whether you’re successful with that on this N1700. Cheers, Rob.
I would still blame the idler. But also sometimes it's the tapes themselves. Still them in a electric oven at 50C for 24 hours and see if they work better after that.
These machines are well worth the effort. The picture & sound, while often less stable than vhs & beta, was a notch above them (especially vhs) in terms of quality. The faster video writing speed & wider track width, seemed to mean the picture needed less artificial sharpening & coring, meaning it was sometimes hard to tell you were watching a recording & not a live program on the typical 22” crt of the time. I have had a few N1700s & N1702s, some from when they were current models & I reckon only the unreliable coaxial tapes let them down. One thing I always noticed though, was that totally red screen pictures in particular exhibited a strange vertically striped image, not sure if it was because the colour had less noise overall than the Japanese models & the noise masked the effect on them??
That happened so often especially in the late 90's. I am always amazed how many of these machines are still left though! I sold one 15 years ago and thought I'd never see another one again!
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In the day i had a Philips K9 colour set and also a Philips N1700 in my lounge room, Great units, but the N1700 was changed out for a early sony beta machine. Later on i upgraded the sony beta for a panasonic NV300. The then old N1700 had been stored for around 5 years and was bought back into service after a quick clean and belts replaced. Talk about being built like a battle ship. I still have the Philips K9, but the picture tube is starting to show it's age.
2:06 Thanks for the plug!
13:07 It's shutting down due to no capstan rotation.
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About 24 years ago (1999/2000) someone gave me a Philips N1702 together with a box of tapes. Never did get it to work, changed the belts but it would never complete the loading cycle. Managed to get a scrap machine (with broken video heads) and did some (servo) board swapping but it still had the same symptoms.
New intro screen is fab.
Glad you like it. My daughter designed and produced it so I'll pass on the positive feedback. 😊
💯⭐️🇹🇷👍 I have nearly 100 betamax and vhs devices in stock, I have nearly 10,000 betamax and vhs tapes, these are excellent devices and tapes.
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My N1702 always struggles to rewind all the tapes I have to the very beginning. I’ve changed the belts, cleaned it many times & rubber renewed the idler that drives the reels. When I’ve just cleaned & renewed it fares much better when I rewind straight afterwards but the next time I use the vcr, it just struggles again. I have a dozen or so tapes (some are SVR) but they all react the same. I’d be interested to find out whether you’re successful with that on this N1700. Cheers, Rob.
I wonder if there's contamination between the upper and lower spool. Looking forward to looking into these issues further.
I would still blame the idler. But also sometimes it's the tapes themselves. Still them in a electric oven at 50C for 24 hours and see if they work better after that.
These machines are well worth the effort. The picture & sound, while often less stable than vhs & beta, was a notch above them (especially vhs) in terms of quality. The faster video writing speed & wider track width, seemed to mean the picture needed less artificial sharpening & coring, meaning it was sometimes hard to tell you were watching a recording & not a live program on the typical 22” crt of the time. I have had a few N1700s & N1702s, some from when they were current models & I reckon only the unreliable coaxial tapes let them down. One thing I always noticed though, was that totally red screen pictures in particular exhibited a strange vertically striped image, not sure if it was because the colour had less noise overall than the Japanese models & the noise masked the effect on them??
My dad had a few of these at one point but they ended up going to the tip before video,s went up of people restoring them . Sadly.
That happened so often especially in the late 90's. I am always amazed how many of these machines are still left though! I sold one 15 years ago and thought I'd never see another one again!
hi have one all the moving parts are all jammed up the video heads are ok you know all the moving parts will not move any more
💯⭐️🇹🇷👍 Stokta 100'e yakın betamax ve vhs cihazım var, 10.000'e yakın betamax ve vhs kasetim var, bunlar mükemmel cihaz ve kasetler.
Thanks for sharing.