I still have my Sony SLV-720HF VCR that I bought in August 1996. I had to have the cassette loading mechanism repaired in 2005 but outside of that it still works fine as does my JVC HR-S3900U VCR from 2001. I have a lot of VHS tapes in my collection. Thanks for the informative video here 👍
Excellent to have VHS yet,hold your collection,I´m only having blank and sealed cassettes,in my case DVD and Blu Ray are for movies,I want to fix this same model,but replacement don´t abound,sad but true.
As a VCR tech 20- years ago we hated seeing those come in for service. That family was just poorly engineered and parts were crazy expensive. The capstan motor design was not designed to last.
Bought the 900 HF over 20 years ago, decided to take it down from the attic - works perfectly! First VHS tape in 15 years? "Yellow Submarine"... Yes, lotsa cool features on these...
Woah that loong tuner in presumably two peices or two seperate but same part style is a sudden flashback throwback man like did not even remember nor know I recalled that looking back
I have a very similar model to this one named the Sony SLV-775HF. And surely enough, it still works despite it being older than me (it first released in 1996; I was born in 2001).
Woah man nice that literally is exactly like a dejavoo moment hehe... oh man does having grown up with memory of using an ifrared remote commander that itself also had a rotatable/twisting motion capable mechanism for the fast forward/rewind function in fact I remember being taught how to change the belt or fix it via the use of a rubber band... thankful for that memory and experience looking back- kinda makes one wish the vcr designs of the noughties and 2010-june 2016 era vcr designs were not of a so much of a diffuculty or fickle to disassemble enough to acquire acess to the required parts for maintanence or repair and fixing of it to be hopefully as long lived as possibly can be acquired out of such a device... oh did you jear of a movie about someboy getting sucked into a tv or a vcr... if I recall I heard about one called... V.H.S... it even came on that and blu ray
Real time counters require either full or partial lacing in FF and RW so as to keep the tape in contact with the control head. This is a nice feature but does put more wear and tear on the tape compared to older machines that put the tape back in the shell. More modern tapes were designed with this in mind.
I found with my Samsung, which also had the real time counter, it uses that head to read the time off the tape. If you recorded something on an older vcr that time feature didn't work. That time feature also introduced the high speed rewind-fast forward because it knew when it was approaching the end of the tape
Would have love something like that back in the day. All I had was a 2 headed Emerson VCR. Low quality with mono sound. It worked for about 10 years though despite me putting it through hell and back a number of times.
Yeah... some things are amazing how much of a good run they show us even after having been though the wear of being part of our childhood... and also wondering how I never realized tracking was never anhthing I knew of for however many years old I was when I figured out what the concept pertaining to a vcr is... hehehe I guess I just was unaware of the exostence so much that I obviously had not realized before just now that even the emerson fwv404? Model has presumably auto trakcing if it does I assume... it uses channel buttons on the front for trakcing as well
Ooh imagine the concept or idea of a potential parody for a hiphop artists song and having it be titled "Vcr like that" you know? Seriously that would pretty sweet.
Hi, may I ask a question: I have Model SLV-E710VC but the mechanics inside seem to be of similar build. It worked very well until last week the cassette got stuck. It won´t come out anymore. I cut the tape and got the cassette out somehow by hand, nothing seemed damaged due to that. Looking inside the machine from the top/front the sled seems to hang on the right side. Do you have an idea what part ist stuck and how to get it fixed? thx in advance
+databits nice the one we had went out in 2009 and its long gone i all so had a 2003 Sony CTR in my room and used it tell 2008 wen i get a LCD TV and i get red of the Sony and i wish i did not cuss it would have been nice for old video games.
In Belgium almost all thrift shops straight out toss VHS tapes. Unless it happens to be some famous movie and then they only keep a few of them to sell on special "retro" days. Not sure about VHS players I suppose those are still kept and sold. Thankfully
Can I ask you about the Sony SLV-798-HF. I just got a new one still in the box...I am an old VHS guy...I have it all set up but have a problem...When it starts auto rewind, it goes to a certain point about 90% back to the beginning and stops??? The read out has an odd sequence of numbers??? 4 12 18??? What is causing this? I feel I have programmed it wrong. Sound familiar?
6:17 - May I give you a small tip? One thing about that design of that style pinch roller, is that it is essential to keep that post that the pinch roller travels up and down lubricated. I've seen those pinch roller posts get gummed up causing the pinch roller to jam in operation.
Man thats some pretty close to nostalgic memory for a similae model I used in the early noughties and in fact what makes it stick is it was one fhat the year when I set the clock meh rents stated that it was so old the year "Will not go any closer to right date" then at that time in sometime in the late noughties was cause it was not apparently anticipated by the manufacturer for it to last over a 5?, or 8 year span much less an over a decade span.
Hi , Mr Databits, maybe you are to young, I am looking for operation manual for SONY VCR SLV-L2. On the back side it is labeled NOM-97-NO-L2MX, but the question is: can this very old VCR play PAL cassette? My VCR are over 20 years, and can only play mono. Someone have a link to a operation manual ?
и ни одного комментария на русском! Мой будет первым. Аппарат просто огонь был в своё время. Думаю, это 1992-1994. Бешеные бабки тогда стоил. У меня тогда был slv-x510ee, тоже не дешёвый (400 $), 4-х головочный, но без hi-fi. С hi-fi сони и Панасоник тогда шли от 600 до 900$, при средней з/п около 30-50$. Эх, весёлые были времена...
I have the very similar SLV-E700 and indeed it is very high quality with rock-steady tracking, pause and search. I actually owned one at college (paying it off over 4 years!) but it started aging badly about 10 years later with many mechanical faults. Thankfully I managed to find another one from eBay last year, paid £30 for it, but that too was faulty and stank of tobacco. But I didn't mind because just before I picked that up, I'd won another one for £1 on eBay - and THAT one (the one I paid £1 for) was in perfect condition. So I considered I'd actually paid £31 for the good one.
I've actually tried a Sony SLV-675HF, which looked really good but the problem was, it snapped a tape. Why do some VCRs do this? My Hitachi VT-F391A doesn't make a clunking sound when its finished rewinding. And one tape I rewound with the sony VCR I had to manually fast forward it myself to get it to play in my Hitachi VCR, since the mechanism delays playing a tape until it's past the clear leader tape, but it just ejected it instead of playing because of how far back the tape was rewound.
ST. Louis here too. :-) Has anyone ever considered replacing the existing NTSC Analog Tuner with an ATSC Digital tuner? I just purchased a SLV795HF VCR from eBay this week. There are three digits in the VCR's display, which would allow digital numbers to displayed. For our Heroes and Icons station, would appear as 244 (24.4), without the dot of course. I know, I could purchase a separate Digital to Analog converter box, but that is just too much bulk. What are your thoughts.
The first (and only) VCR we got when I was a kid (Christmas 1988) was a General Electric VG-7720 (manufactured by Panasonic). It wasn't a high-end machine; about $250 at the time, but it did have 4 heads and HQ circuitry. It is most notable for being the first line of VCRs to have onscreen programming/display, which everyone soon copied. Also, like your Sony, it had a perfectly clear/stable still-frame function, and it had a slow-motion function which was perfectly clear too. On top of that, it had the cleanest picture of any VHS machine I've ever used; a very smooth picture with no noticeable video noise. I don't know why; maybe it had the full implementation of the HQ circuitry rather than the half-implementation that most of them had. It was far from perfect though. For starters, it didn't have Hi-Fi Stereo. That didn't matter to me as a kid, because I didn't know anything about it, but it would matter to me now. Also, it didn't have any AV inputs, only outputs, so when using it to copy off rented tapes, it could only be used as the playback machine along with a machine that had AV inputs. The most annoying thing was that it had hardly any functions on the VCR itself; no display of any kind (not even a clock) and no fast forward or rewind buttons. All those functions were on the rather large remote control. The clock (as well as the tape counter) could be displayed onscreen, but that's not as handy as just being able to look at the VCR whenever to see what time it is. I used it regularly up until 2001 when I got a DVD drive for my PC, and semi-regularly until I got a standalone DVD player in 2006. It was around that time that I noticed you could no longer set it to the proper date, because the built-in calendar only went to 12/31/2006, after which it rolled back to 01/01/1987. I guess the manufacturer didn't expect anyone to still be using it 20 years later. I dragged it out of the closet the other day to see if it still works, but it has issues. The blue screen that comes up when you turn it on has some motion in it, which is probably due to a bad B+ filter capacitor. When I played a tape in it, at first the picture was so full of static that you could barely see anything, and then there was no picture at all, so I'm guessing that the heads are extremely dirty. I'll probably just let it rest in peace. I don't have any use for a VCR these days, and I haven't for over a decade. Plus, I have a Zenith 4-head, Hi-Fi, HQ VCR that still works fine, though its picture has never been as clean as that GE's was when it was working properly, and it doesn't have a perfect still-frame either.
Maxim, thank you for spending the time to share your memories. My first experience with a VCR was when my uncle bought one...he was the first in the family to have one, right around 1986. It was a SHARP. He later traded someone for a Panasonic camera/VCR combo unit which we made funny home movies with. The first VCR I bought myself was from JCPenneys and was a STEREO, not HiFi audio player.
Hey, I have a question. I just bought a VCR, but the drum is lopsided (I hope I got that part name right) and I was wondering if this is normal? I don't want to damage my tapes, ya know?
pinata .time VHS Decks made by JVC never had LP b/c the LP speed was started by RCA against JVC’s wishes. So, JVC Came out with EP (6 hours) & would play tapes made in LP But, Only record in SP & EP as a FU to RCA.
JVC was always willing to license VHS to anyone (including Sony once they swallowed their pride), which was a factor in their success over Sony's Betamax. Also, Betamax wasn't even a real rival for very long. They were in the '70s, but hardly anyone could afford a VCR of any kind in the '70s. By the time VCRs really started becoming mainstream in the early '80s, it was because of VHS. By '81, VHS already had about 75% market share, and by the mid '80s it was over 90%.
Kimda like the 90s flash memory of cf or compactflash and then noughties with MemoryStick vs SecureDigital cards and briefly Dataplay [ 25 cent usa coin size double sided 250mb for each side optical music discs the same size as well usa 25 cent peice or a qaurter dollar...]
Yeah i do see lots and lots of vcr tapes in second hand stores for just $1 dollars or so but i don't bother with 240p resolution tapes because on a hdtv it looks so noisy Maybe if i can't find a wanted movie on dvd i can buy a vcr tape of it and then record it on dvd but that's it.
Those units where to much fragile. .but the old ones where so good..just 6 head hi fi stereo takes some advantage on sound..btw it requires a good crt not a flat screen tv
THE MACHINE IS AWARE IF YOU WATCH A TAPE FROM THE BIGIN TO THE END. THE TAPE WAS REWIND SO FAST. YOU COULD NOT READ THE TIME IN THE DISPLAY. AND SO FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE END COMES. THE REWINDIG GOES SLOWER. BUT IF YOU WATCH ONLY EVERY TIME A PART INSITE THE TOTAL TIME OF THE TAPE ?. IT REWINDS A LOT SLOWER.
BY REMOTE YOU CAN INPUT A POINT YOU WANNA GO ON THE TAPE. IF YOU COULD NOT READ TEH TIME IN THE DISPLAY BECAUSE IT WENT SO FAS. IT STOPS AT THE POINT YOU PUTTED IN BY THE REMOTE. AND THE VIDEO STARTS PLAYING.
Neil Robinson bought a panasonic nvhs 830 a few weeks ago for £10 from a local charity shop,works perfect,they're literally giving them away now,it's just about being in the right place at the right time.
Keep on looking. I just found a late model Mits and my friend just found a JVC. Both with SVHS ET and remotes. You really want to get one of these as they do good things for standard VHS playback. $5 each.
I have a Sony pretty close to this one, it took me awhile to figure it out. It really has ALL speeds SP, LP and EP, but it depends on the system you chose to record. SP and LP for Pal, SP and EP for NTSC. LP and EP on these machines are almost identical in quality and tape consumption. Later Panasonics, if I remember correctly, used all 3 speeds for any system. EP was very poor.
If you look back at the Betamax VCR’s that Sony made in the 1970’s, Beta 1 was the actual speed since the very beginning. Then came Beta 2 and Beta 3 are the other tape speeds, and Beta 1 was never included on later Betamax VCR’s.
I HAVE ONE WITCH LOOK AS THIS ONE. BUT I HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR TO EJECT THE CASSETTE IN AND OUT. AND THE DISPLAY WAS INSITE THE DOOR. AND SOME BUTTONS TO. THE BIG ROND BUTTON ON THE RIGHT IS THERE TO. AND THE REMOTE HAS TO FLOORS AND YOU CAN PUT THE FIRST FLOOR UP. TO GET TO THE SECOND FLOOR. AND THE BIG ROND BUTTON IS ON IT TO.
Sony usually did the Betamax VCR’s back in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Sony discontinued by the early part of the 1990’s when they made the VHS VCR and continued right up until the 2000’s along with the combo unit that has a DVD player.
I still have my Sony SLV-720HF VCR that I bought in August 1996. I had to have the cassette loading mechanism repaired in 2005 but outside of that it still works fine as does my JVC HR-S3900U VCR from 2001. I have a lot of VHS tapes in my collection. Thanks for the informative video here 👍
Excellent to have VHS yet,hold your collection,I´m only having blank and sealed cassettes,in my case DVD and Blu Ray are for movies,I want to fix this same model,but replacement don´t abound,sad but true.
My grandfather had this one unit the day he died. Loved it!
Finally a VCR that actually gives you instructions! I need this!
As a VCR tech 20- years ago we hated seeing those come in for service. That family was just poorly engineered and parts were crazy expensive. The capstan motor design was not designed to last.
Bought the 900 HF over 20 years ago, decided to take it down from the attic - works perfectly! First VHS tape in 15 years? "Yellow Submarine"... Yes, lotsa cool features on these...
Woah that loong tuner in presumably two peices or two seperate but same part style is a sudden flashback throwback man like did not even remember nor know I recalled that looking back
Just bought one at Goodwill store today , for $8:20 cents . Works great !
I have a very similar model to this one named the Sony SLV-775HF. And surely enough, it still works despite it being older than me (it first released in 1996; I was born in 2001).
Woah man nice that literally is exactly like a dejavoo moment hehe... oh man does having grown up with memory of using an ifrared remote commander that itself also had a rotatable/twisting motion capable mechanism for the fast forward/rewind function in fact I remember being taught how to change the belt or fix it via the use of a rubber band... thankful for that memory and experience looking back- kinda makes one wish the vcr designs of the noughties and 2010-june 2016 era vcr designs were not of a so much of a diffuculty or fickle to disassemble enough to acquire acess to the required parts for maintanence or repair and fixing of it to be hopefully as long lived as possibly can be acquired out of such a device... oh did you jear of a movie about someboy getting sucked into a tv or a vcr... if I recall I heard about one called... V.H.S... it even came on that and blu ray
Real time counters require either full or partial lacing in FF and RW so as to keep the tape in contact with the control head. This is a nice feature but does put more wear and tear on the tape compared to older machines that put the tape back in the shell. More modern tapes were designed with this in mind.
I've got one just like this, and I love it. The remote is great too. It's 17 inches wide so looks perfect in a giant component stack like mine!
Thanks for your comments!
Just curious, how do you get under the hood of a 2008 magnavox dual DVD/VHS?
I found with my Samsung, which also had the real time counter, it uses that head to read the time off the tape. If you recorded something on an older vcr that time feature didn't work. That time feature also introduced the high speed rewind-fast forward because it knew when it was approaching the end of the tape
Would have love something like that back in the day. All I had was a 2 headed Emerson VCR. Low quality with mono sound. It worked for about 10 years though despite me putting it through hell and back a number of times.
Yeah... some things are amazing how much of a good run they show us even after having been though the wear of being part of our childhood... and also wondering how I never realized tracking was never anhthing I knew of for however many years old I was when I figured out what the concept pertaining to a vcr is... hehehe I guess I just was unaware of the exostence so much that I obviously had not realized before just now that even the emerson fwv404? Model has presumably auto trakcing if it does I assume... it uses channel buttons on the front for trakcing as well
I wish I had a VCR like that.
Ooh imagine the concept or idea of a potential parody for a hiphop artists song and having it be titled "Vcr like that" you know? Seriously that would pretty sweet.
This VCR retailed for $350 back in 1996...that’s $500 in today’s dollars!
this model have one of the fastest rewind/forward cassette system
Hi, may I ask a question:
I have Model SLV-E710VC but the mechanics inside seem to be of similar build.
It worked very well until last week the cassette got stuck. It won´t come out anymore.
I cut the tape and got the cassette out somehow by hand, nothing seemed damaged due to that.
Looking inside the machine from the top/front the sled seems to hang on the right side.
Do you have an idea what part ist stuck and how to get it fixed?
thx in advance
Autosetting clock? Laserdisc-style jog dial? Pretty cool vcr databits
It would set the clock if it Recieved Teletext data
we had that VCR wen i was a kid a long with a SONY 27inch TV
+graywolf89 - I still have my Sony 27 inch TV CRT
+databits nice the one we had went out in 2009 and its long gone i all so had a 2003 Sony CTR in my room and used it tell 2008 wen i get a LCD TV and i get red of the Sony and i wish i did not cuss it would have been nice for old video games.
mines the same model plus i have the remote which also has the jog shuttle knob on it nicest vcr i ever owned or seen!
How Did You Push The Volume Button To Get No Volume, Databits?
Hey can my VCR play closed captions on my tapes? My TV doesn't have CC but I'm wondering if I can get CC somehow through this model VCR on my tapes.
also i dont like how some thrift shops are getting rid of vhs tapes. but thats life.
In Belgium almost all thrift shops straight out toss VHS tapes. Unless it happens to be some famous movie and then they only keep a few of them to sell on special "retro" days. Not sure about VHS players I suppose those are still kept and sold. Thankfully
Sony VHS VCR SLV-720HF Overview
You mean SLV-760HF?
That's my exact vcr!
Can I ask you about the Sony SLV-798-HF. I just got a new one still in the box...I am an old VHS guy...I have it all set up but have a problem...When it starts auto rewind, it goes to a certain point about 90% back to the beginning and stops??? The read out has an odd sequence of numbers??? 4 12 18??? What is causing this? I feel I have programmed it wrong. Sound familiar?
6:17 - May I give you a small tip? One thing about that design of that style pinch roller, is that it is essential to keep that post that the pinch roller travels up and down lubricated. I've seen those pinch roller posts get gummed up causing the pinch roller to jam in operation.
If it's mech 2 then yeah
If it's mech 3 then no problem
I had this same vcr I brought it with my Circuit City credit card. It died about 5 years ago.
Man thats some pretty close to nostalgic memory for a similae model I used in the early noughties and in fact what makes it stick is it was one fhat the year when I set the clock meh rents stated that it was so old the year "Will not go any closer to right date" then at that time in sometime in the late noughties was cause it was not apparently anticipated by the manufacturer for it to last over a 5?, or 8 year span much less an over a decade span.
Hi , Mr Databits, maybe you are to young, I am looking for operation manual for SONY VCR SLV-L2. On the back side it is labeled NOM-97-NO-L2MX, but the question is: can this very old VCR play PAL cassette? My VCR are over 20 years, and can only play mono. Someone have a link to a operation manual ?
и ни одного комментария на русском! Мой будет первым.
Аппарат просто огонь был в своё время. Думаю, это 1992-1994. Бешеные бабки тогда стоил. У меня тогда был slv-x510ee, тоже не дешёвый (400 $), 4-х головочный, но без hi-fi. С hi-fi сони и Панасоник тогда шли от 600 до 900$, при средней з/п около 30-50$. Эх, весёлые были времена...
I have the very similar SLV-E700 and indeed it is very high quality with rock-steady tracking, pause and search. I actually owned one at college (paying it off over 4 years!) but it started aging badly about 10 years later with many mechanical faults. Thankfully I managed to find another one from eBay last year, paid £30 for it, but that too was faulty and stank of tobacco. But I didn't mind because just before I picked that up, I'd won another one for £1 on eBay - and THAT one (the one I paid £1 for) was in perfect condition. So I considered I'd actually paid £31 for the good one.
+BizMarkUK - thanks for sharing! I too bought a VCR in my early 20s and took forever to pay it off!
I've actually tried a Sony SLV-675HF, which looked really good but the problem was, it snapped a tape. Why do some VCRs do this? My Hitachi VT-F391A doesn't make a clunking sound when its finished rewinding. And one tape I rewound with the sony VCR I had to manually fast forward it myself to get it to play in my Hitachi VCR, since the mechanism delays playing a tape until it's past the clear leader tape, but it just ejected it instead of playing because of how far back the tape was rewound.
I have Sony slv 662HF anyone has it?
I never was a fan of VHS either.....such a shame Betamax didn't take off like VHS did.....
ST. Louis here too. :-) Has anyone ever considered replacing the existing NTSC Analog Tuner with an ATSC Digital tuner? I just purchased a SLV795HF VCR from eBay this week. There are three digits in the VCR's display, which would allow digital numbers to displayed. For our Heroes and Icons station, would appear as 244 (24.4), without the dot of course. I know, I could purchase a separate Digital to Analog converter box, but that is just too much bulk. What are your thoughts.
nice:)
A piece fell out of my vcr wondering how important it really is, machine still works. Has a spring but broke off white plastic piece
The first (and only) VCR we got when I was a kid (Christmas 1988) was a General Electric VG-7720 (manufactured by Panasonic). It wasn't a high-end machine; about $250 at the time, but it did have 4 heads and HQ circuitry. It is most notable for being the first line of VCRs to have onscreen programming/display, which everyone soon copied. Also, like your Sony, it had a perfectly clear/stable still-frame function, and it had a slow-motion function which was perfectly clear too. On top of that, it had the cleanest picture of any VHS machine I've ever used; a very smooth picture with no noticeable video noise. I don't know why; maybe it had the full implementation of the HQ circuitry rather than the half-implementation that most of them had.
It was far from perfect though. For starters, it didn't have Hi-Fi Stereo. That didn't matter to me as a kid, because I didn't know anything about it, but it would matter to me now. Also, it didn't have any AV inputs, only outputs, so when using it to copy off rented tapes, it could only be used as the playback machine along with a machine that had AV inputs. The most annoying thing was that it had hardly any functions on the VCR itself; no display of any kind (not even a clock) and no fast forward or rewind buttons. All those functions were on the rather large remote control. The clock (as well as the tape counter) could be displayed onscreen, but that's not as handy as just being able to look at the VCR whenever to see what time it is.
I used it regularly up until 2001 when I got a DVD drive for my PC, and semi-regularly until I got a standalone DVD player in 2006. It was around that time that I noticed you could no longer set it to the proper date, because the built-in calendar only went to 12/31/2006, after which it rolled back to 01/01/1987. I guess the manufacturer didn't expect anyone to still be using it 20 years later.
I dragged it out of the closet the other day to see if it still works, but it has issues. The blue screen that comes up when you turn it on has some motion in it, which is probably due to a bad B+ filter capacitor. When I played a tape in it, at first the picture was so full of static that you could barely see anything, and then there was no picture at all, so I'm guessing that the heads are extremely dirty. I'll probably just let it rest in peace. I don't have any use for a VCR these days, and I haven't for over a decade. Plus, I have a Zenith 4-head, Hi-Fi, HQ VCR that still works fine, though its picture has never been as clean as that GE's was when it was working properly, and it doesn't have a perfect still-frame either.
Maxim, thank you for spending the time to share your memories. My first experience with a VCR was when my uncle bought one...he was the first in the family to have one, right around 1986. It was a SHARP. He later traded someone for a Panasonic camera/VCR combo unit which we made funny home movies with. The first VCR I bought myself was from JCPenneys and was a STEREO, not HiFi audio player.
Hey, I have a question. I just bought a VCR, but the drum is lopsided (I hope I got that part name right) and I was wondering if this is normal? I don't want to damage my tapes, ya know?
It is normal.
@@databits thank you! I really appreciate it!
Mine won’t play my vhs movies. It makes a weird noise too when I try to effect I have to put my fingers in to pull out the movie
hi data bits i have a Philips VCR with a regional remote control but my machen not working at the moment but i well get it fixed
i hate how newer vcr's only have sp and slp. why did they get rid of lp?
GIVE US ARE LP!
+shesnailie i need the lp!
also thanks
I have 2 older VCR's that don't have LP
pinata .time VHS Decks made by JVC never had LP b/c the LP speed was started by RCA against JVC’s wishes. So, JVC Came out with EP (6 hours) & would play tapes made in LP But, Only record in SP & EP as a FU to RCA.
Thank you! LP was a hack. Typically the decks without LP would still play the LP recorded tapes.
I think it was a nice truce for JVC to license the VHS format to Sony, who was their rival with the Betamax format.
Truce? I'm sure it killed Sony to have to write those licensing checks to JVC every month.
JVC was always willing to license VHS to anyone (including Sony once they swallowed their pride), which was a factor in their success over Sony's Betamax. Also, Betamax wasn't even a real rival for very long. They were in the '70s, but hardly anyone could afford a VCR of any kind in the '70s. By the time VCRs really started becoming mainstream in the early '80s, it was because of VHS. By '81, VHS already had about 75% market share, and by the mid '80s it was over 90%.
Kimda like the 90s flash memory of cf or compactflash and then noughties with MemoryStick vs SecureDigital cards and briefly Dataplay [ 25 cent usa coin size double sided 250mb for each side optical music discs the same size as well usa 25 cent peice or a qaurter dollar...]
Dolby surround?
This VCR from 1996
Alexander Gridnev
What exactly is a pbs station
I still have got that machine,but i need to fix it for certain fails,it´s an original VCR made in Japan.
How do you set the clock??
On screen menu
Why is the title wrong? Its an SLV-760HF not a SLV-720HF.
do you mean 760hf?
I think to get the best vhs video out put quality you need a CRT TV.
For sure
And This Video Too?
i have the same model but auto cassette intaker is broken.
8:26 ..unless you can't, the music video seems to not exist on this channel.
How much to buy
Yeah i do see lots and lots of vcr tapes in second hand stores for just $1 dollars or so but i don't bother with 240p resolution tapes because on a hdtv it looks so noisy
Maybe if i can't find a wanted movie on dvd i can buy a vcr tape of it and then record it on dvd but that's it.
VHS isn't 240p, it's 240i. Classic video game consoles, up to and including the original Sony Playstation, were ~240p.
Get a crt
Those units where to much fragile. .but the old ones where so good..just 6 head hi fi stereo takes some advantage on sound..btw it requires a good crt not a flat screen tv
Sony has made some pretty good vcrs. But some were more fragile than an ice replica of the statue of liberty
THE MACHINE IS AWARE IF YOU WATCH A TAPE FROM THE BIGIN TO THE END. THE TAPE WAS REWIND SO FAST. YOU COULD NOT READ THE TIME IN THE DISPLAY. AND SO FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THE END COMES. THE REWINDIG GOES SLOWER. BUT IF YOU WATCH ONLY EVERY TIME A PART INSITE THE TOTAL TIME OF THE TAPE ?. IT REWINDS A LOT SLOWER.
databits, why haven't you down videos regarding Laserdisc?
TheThingKing Why haven't you watched them? ua-cam.com/video/v-xO3kuJuWg/v-deo.html
Sorry man I did not realise. That's awesome.
BY REMOTE YOU CAN INPUT A POINT YOU WANNA GO ON THE TAPE. IF YOU COULD NOT READ TEH TIME IN THE DISPLAY BECAUSE IT WENT SO FAS. IT STOPS AT THE POINT YOU PUTTED IN BY THE REMOTE. AND THE VIDEO STARTS PLAYING.
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am looking for an SVHS machine at my local thrifts, no luck so far and i have been looking for years.
Neil Robinson bought a panasonic nvhs 830 a few weeks ago for £10 from a local charity shop,works perfect,they're literally giving them away now,it's just about being in the right place at the right time.
Keep on looking. I just found a late model Mits and my friend just found a JVC. Both with SVHS ET and remotes. You really want to get one of these as they do good things for standard VHS playback. $5 each.
It has LP, but for PAL only.
EP is for NTSC
Big Bro NTSC had 3 speeds. SP, LP & EP/SLP. Some VHS decks don’t have LP recording.
I have a Sony pretty close to this one, it took me awhile to figure it out. It really has ALL speeds SP, LP and EP, but it depends on the system you chose to record. SP and LP for Pal, SP and EP for NTSC. LP and EP on these machines are almost identical in quality and tape consumption. Later Panasonics, if I remember correctly, used all 3 speeds for any system. EP was very poor.
If you look back at the Betamax VCR’s that Sony made in the 1970’s, Beta 1 was the actual speed since the very beginning. Then came Beta 2 and Beta 3 are the other tape speeds, and Beta 1 was never included on later Betamax VCR’s.
I HAVE ONE WITCH LOOK AS THIS ONE. BUT I HAVE TO OPEN THE DOOR TO EJECT THE CASSETTE IN AND OUT. AND THE DISPLAY WAS INSITE THE DOOR. AND SOME BUTTONS TO. THE BIG ROND BUTTON ON THE RIGHT IS THERE TO. AND THE REMOTE HAS TO FLOORS AND YOU CAN PUT THE FIRST FLOOR UP. TO GET TO THE SECOND FLOOR. AND THE BIG ROND BUTTON IS ON IT TO.
Is this betamax player ?
Sony usually did the Betamax VCR’s back in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Sony discontinued by the early part of the 1990’s when they made the VHS VCR and continued right up until the 2000’s along with the combo unit that has a DVD player.
Aside from Sony, Philips also made some stonking vhs players.
Yes Philips just like Sony did make garbage VCR's that were junk just like any VCR brand
Love or hate VHS , there is nothing else to use , I mean use , unlike DVD which is a wast of time
U.K. thrift stores don’t stock VHS.
Jack Walker nope! Our charity shops can't even recycle them ! They have 3 or more different plastics in them.
sony vhs taps
+Lee Hall - yes, tapes
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Share this video with those unfortunate millennials.
No one like Sony.
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i hate software video stabilisation ..
It's a new made vcr ... almost at the end of vhs era. Unshielded psu , simple mechanism , no manual adjust of sound level ....
Nothing special ...