I haven't finished watching yet, so maybe you already confirmed it for yourself, but you are correct that this made by Orion. My ex had an Orion VCR from 2003 with this same mechanism. I believe it was Orion's last mechanism before they sold out to Funai, and I consider it to be a good mechanism, if a little more cheaply-built than the ones that preceded it. Edited to add: I never noticed how it only does high speed in rewind - that's a rather humorous cost cut. My Citizen VCR from 2001, which had the mechanism that preceded this, did high speed in both directions.
Orion was never owned or sold to Funai. It had a good relationship with Toshiba during the mid-2000s. It went bankrupt by 2010, and the company does not exist anymore.
A regular old VHS in the early 2000s didn't get much love. DVDs had surpassed them in convenience and picture quality, which wasn't a high bar since VHS was basically aiming to record over-the-air in the 1970s. That's something VHS did quite well. I think what really hurt VHS in the late 80s/early 90s was S-VHS being not terrible much better than regular old VHS. S-VHS couldn't match the chroma of over-the-air NTCS/PAL broadcast. It needed to be better, basically "broadcast quality" at home. So then at the end, in the 2000s, VHS didn't have a viable upgrade path. D-VHS was perhaps acceptable in theory, but it was way too late to the market. S-VHS needed to be the bridge between, and I just think it didn't make an impact.
It always bothered me how common mono non-hifi VCRs were still in the 90s and even 2000s. By then the hifi heads and extra circuitry couldn't have added more than a few dozen cents to the cost. This machine already has 4 heads, why not just put in the hifi heads too?! VHS of course has bad picture quality, but hifi sound on VHS is incredible.
Dad bought a number of these J.V.C. decks (hi-fi stereo version) from Kroger in 2003 as they were dead cheap and he thought that they would be the last decks to be available since the format was becoming obsolete. He used one every day, like he did our Sharp VC-6730U in the 1990s. After only a few years, the head drum became toast. He cleaned it regularly but in EP, it was unwatchable. The hifi audio was always crackly and the linear audio playback had this horrible ring to it. The recordings he made on the Sharp sounded dull on it despite it being a rather "hot" sounding deck. I do not rate this series highly, and what you found at the end was part of the reason why.
Enjoyed this video! I found this video because I have a HR-A592U Hi-Fi that looks remarkably similar inside. What brought me here is mine has a tape load problem where it thinks a tape has been inserted and it tries to load an empty basket. Works fine if you feed it a tape, or leave a tape in it, but will ultimately shut off after a few seconds of trying to load a tape that isn't there haha. I think it's something to do with an IR sensor mounted beside the load tray, I think it's dead.
If it says Made in Malaysia on the back it could well be an in-house design, as they had their 'Philips & JVC Video Malaysia' plant out there. And yes, alongside the later Philips machines from around the mid-nineties, onwards (all JVC clones), though I'm not entirely sure if Philips were still making a few of their own high-end decks in Austria at the time..
Man a lot of companies cheaped out on remotes at that time. Take my workhorse VCR...I have a Magnavox VCR from the 00s, and the remote is exactly like one I got with a 13in Durabrand CRT TV I bought at Walmart when I was in college back in 2003. It's still a decent VCR, and it's stereo hifi. I use it at least a couple times a week, and it hasn't given me any issues.
There is a way to get the fast forward to go fast, you let it go up to speed on rewind then hit fast forward. I have the hifi version of this vcr and I discovered that pretty easily. Am also pretty sure that some other vcrs had the same function
I haven't finished watching yet, so maybe you already confirmed it for yourself, but you are correct that this made by Orion. My ex had an Orion VCR from 2003 with this same mechanism. I believe it was Orion's last mechanism before they sold out to Funai, and I consider it to be a good mechanism, if a little more cheaply-built than the ones that preceded it.
Edited to add: I never noticed how it only does high speed in rewind - that's a rather humorous cost cut. My Citizen VCR from 2001, which had the mechanism that preceded this, did high speed in both directions.
I think my Memorex MVR4051 probably has the same mechanism as your Citizen. It's an earlier Orion to this one.
Orion was never owned or sold to Funai. It had a good relationship with Toshiba during the mid-2000s. It went bankrupt by 2010, and the company does not exist anymore.
A regular old VHS in the early 2000s didn't get much love. DVDs had surpassed them in convenience and picture quality, which wasn't a high bar since VHS was basically aiming to record over-the-air in the 1970s. That's something VHS did quite well. I think what really hurt VHS in the late 80s/early 90s was S-VHS being not terrible much better than regular old VHS. S-VHS couldn't match the chroma of over-the-air NTCS/PAL broadcast. It needed to be better, basically "broadcast quality" at home. So then at the end, in the 2000s, VHS didn't have a viable upgrade path. D-VHS was perhaps acceptable in theory, but it was way too late to the market. S-VHS needed to be the bridge between, and I just think it didn't make an impact.
It always bothered me how common mono non-hifi VCRs were still in the 90s and even 2000s. By then the hifi heads and extra circuitry couldn't have added more than a few dozen cents to the cost. This machine already has 4 heads, why not just put in the hifi heads too?! VHS of course has bad picture quality, but hifi sound on VHS is incredible.
I can only imagine they wanted to keep production costs as low as possible, not to mention, mono non-hifi VCRs were quite a bit cheaper than hifi VCRs
This VCR was actually an Orion, you were correct on your assumption.
Dad bought a number of these J.V.C. decks (hi-fi stereo version) from Kroger in 2003 as they were dead cheap and he thought that they would be the last decks to be available since the format was becoming obsolete. He used one every day, like he did our Sharp VC-6730U in the 1990s. After only a few years, the head drum became toast. He cleaned it regularly but in EP, it was unwatchable. The hifi audio was always crackly and the linear audio playback had this horrible ring to it. The recordings he made on the Sharp sounded dull on it despite it being a rather "hot" sounding deck. I do not rate this series highly, and what you found at the end was part of the reason why.
Enjoyed this video! I found this video because I have a HR-A592U Hi-Fi that looks remarkably similar inside. What brought me here is mine has a tape load problem where it thinks a tape has been inserted and it tries to load an empty basket. Works fine if you feed it a tape, or leave a tape in it, but will ultimately shut off after a few seconds of trying to load a tape that isn't there haha. I think it's something to do with an IR sensor mounted beside the load tray, I think it's dead.
Yeah, that sounds likely. I've heard of that happening, think I saw it in a 12voltvids video...
If it says Made in Malaysia on the back it could well be an in-house design, as they had their 'Philips & JVC Video Malaysia' plant out there. And yes, alongside the later Philips machines from around the mid-nineties, onwards (all JVC clones), though I'm not entirely sure if Philips were still making a few of their own high-end decks in Austria at the time..
Mono produces sound from one channel, Nicam Stereo Hi-Fi produces sound from both channels.
Man a lot of companies cheaped out on remotes at that time. Take my workhorse VCR...I have a Magnavox VCR from the 00s, and the remote is exactly like one I got with a 13in Durabrand CRT TV I bought at Walmart when I was in college back in 2003. It's still a decent VCR, and it's stereo hifi. I use it at least a couple times a week, and it hasn't given me any issues.
There is a way to get the fast forward to go fast, you let it go up to speed on rewind then hit fast forward. I have the hifi version of this vcr and I discovered that pretty easily. Am also pretty sure that some other vcrs had the same function
They didn’t give it a lousy headphone jack!
So what you're saying is it's basically an iPhone.
VCR players cleaning tapes vhs movies VCR belts everywhere online now days everything proven am buying them myself offline from my phone now days
Wait, SQPB but it's mono audio? Why even bother, JVC?
I wonder if all the JVC-branded VCRs during this late period had it.
@@probnotstech Probably, it was likely cheaper to just leave it in even if it didn't make sense.
JVC? more like Junk Very Cheap
Junk Video Consumer (JVC)
Knowing that JVC was " The Inventor of VHS" It's someting that they would make such cheap Chinese crap.
Orion were Japanese.