Sony Betamax sl-Hf 950 on Plasma TV
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- Опубліковано 24 кві 2008
- My old Betamax Sl-HF 950 (750 in USA) already plays very well on my new Panasonic 37PX70 Plama TV. Looks really good.
Note that there are 3 LEDs that don't work.
If someone know how to repair the leds please let me know. - Наука та технологія
![VIVA SONY LAND 1980's Betamax Promotional Video [PART 1/2]](/img/n.gif)
That is the coolest vcr I've ever seen, that door mechanism is pure awesomeness!!!
And probably prone to at shitload of mechanical problems...
That was really the very best era for consumer electronics design... What a gorgeous deck!
Btw, I recently bought a HF950 myself. Everything works, perfect condition! Love it!
Great Demo!!! I'd love an SL-HF950!!!
I've just finished watching a film called 'The Last Starfighter' from 1984 on my SL-HF100 in Beta HiFi and mines on a 37" 1080p LCD TV...The Quality (like yours) is amazing for a machine thats so old!!!
It has the same LED sound level meter as the 950...And amazingly all of the green LED's still work as does the remote :)
It has no problem recording or playing back 16:9...And it would shame even the most modern VHS machine!!!
Beta IS Better!!! :)
My SL-HF-950 after 20 years still work in perfect conditions, i use to record some DVDs and laserdiscs and audio hi-fi from vynil records too, is the best video recorder of the 80s
Forgot how noisy the old players were (loading, ejecting). We had an old top loader VHS(I forget the brand) that lasted for probably 20 years (bought new in 1984). I still remember loving the sounds of the top ejecting to take a tape.
best analogic image and sound quality ever!
The LEDs seem to burn out on this unit as the years go on....I heard it has something to do with poor solder joints. The American counterpart, the SL-HF750, has the exact same problem.
MyTVcollection I had the 750. Sold it for several hundred dollars in 2000.
Dude this Betamax "transformation" when you set the new tape is so sick! Those days nobody cared about make products much little tiny, they cared about make cool and "Star Trek like" products. Awesome
Yess, you are right, there is no supertech and cool looking consumer products those days.
I just realized that that is why 240 was the original UA-cam resolution. Mind = Blown.
I remember we had a "top loader" which I had to thump down or it would pop back up again, can't remember the make though. Good to see there are still some going!
Brian :)
I have the same Betamax here. Of course the sound was good! This was Hi-Fi FM modulation stereo. Image-wise, it looked better on our smaller screens of the time. The best results were, of course, at higher speeds with ultra high-grade tapes. It is one if the best machines to transfer those old home-made movies because the mechanism is rock-steady and tracking is manually adjustable, for those older tapes, and those recorded at B-III, for instance.
The Betamax of my dreams
Beta was definitely better than VHS. Growing up, I had always assumed VHS was better just because it was the winning format. I later learned that this was certainly not the case.
Nunca había visto ese modelo. Está hermoso...
Beta on Wide format, I just recorded Stranger Things from Netflix using my Roku on a Betamax HF860D and it is on Wide Screen as well.
Yes, the image is really recorded in 4:3, but then TV also decodes in 16:9
@macolest Acutally that is the resolution of VHS and Betamax. Videodisc was around 425. Not bad for 1970s technology!
Betamax is the best VCR recorder!!! Miko Mission still owns one!! and the creators of the Max mix 2!! the sound quility is really incredible, so amazing!! This guy has the best recorder on the world is like a spaceship!! with all this LEDs ligths,the recording tape sound IT'S A SONY, IT'S BETAMAX SHARPER PICTURE, HIFI!!
That is an EXTREMELY cool loading system! Reminds me of the very old Sony CD players!
1:02 A badass movie!
@talldude123 This film has Beta HIFI sound, that is 20hz-20khz (CD quality). Awesome!
thanks for comment
Smooth.
The image quality looks very sharp!!! I'd like to see someone convert a blu-ray disc to betamax ;)
THAT is a big cassette tray! Cool how you have Cape Fear BM to play on your HDTV.
its still the best videsystem ever made
First, I must say, that is perhaps the coolest looking Beta deck I have ever seen. Love the "CD" like loading tray. I am also impressed that you have a Beta copy of a movie in widescreen. Was this more common for Beta than VHS? I remember it being difficult to find VHS in widescreen and even then they didn't really show up until long after Beta was already out of the picture.
Woah!! Talk about top of the line for the time!
I miss top loaders! I hope they come out with a retro VCR-esque DVD player with a top loader tray!
Betamax looks amazing! I like the old cape fear more though...
true! there are a full episode about this movie
Got 2 of these babies, best results are gotten with the Pro-X tapes. Real shame those LED's die out (or at least the IC's that drive them) on most of them. Almost all of the ones i see on the net have at least a few dead LED's. One of the 2 I have still has all the LEDs working :)
these things are still cutting edge tech, great clarity!! I can get a BEta unit but the tapes must be difficult to get?
have you tried recording HD onto Betamax to see what it looks like?
Very interesting! So how is DVD quality on Betamax? Does it suffer or not? I think - not very much anyway.
@zombiehellmonkey yes, it's a real pleasure to use and see the tape moving and the vumeters also the brilliant picture quality. In ebay was selling for 300 Euro more or less (this PAL model).
I'll bet the idler sytem in this model is much easier to maintain then conventional front loaders. No need to push out or pull in. A brilliant compromise between the maintainability of the top loader and the space saving of the front. Should have been standardized.
That's weird. I know I am talking about a VCR but I can't quite recall in what context, and the original link goes nowhere.
@macolest Do you know what the resolution of videodisc is?
Yes, and I'm too surprised! Not worse, or even better that S-VHS!
Betacam SP or simply Betacam? If simply Betacam, were do you take them from? Thanks.
It looks like a modul to the international space station .... lol ;)
What is the maximum digital storage of a betamax tape? I heard dtheater VHS is 50GB.
do you worked with digital Betacam?and some professional studio video recorders to appoint this theory?
@macolest thanks for your reply. It is a beautiful machine, must be a real pleasure to use. I am going to try and get hold of one. Do you know how much that model would cost these days?
Still got my Betamax..I enjoy it a lot more than my VCR..lol.
its awesome!! how it comes out the videotape
@jupiter0225 I agree.Laserdisc was the bomb!
did you know the simpsons had a betamax player? just noticed it while watching lisa's pony
I think this is the sony beta hi-fi 750 model, I do jot think it is the 950?
@darkxapple Esta joya proviene de un familiar que en su momento lo compró aproximadamente en 1988 a un alto precio, y que hace unos años me cedió.
Tampoco fué muy popuar en españa aunque conozco bastante que gente que lo tuvo.
Gracias por comentar
Yo tengo uno igual comprado usado en Enero de este año.He tenido otros usados pero este de largo es el mejor.
Very nice video. I'm in the USA and have owned several SL-HF750s (have 1 now). The LEDs burning out is a very common problem, something to do with solder connections. BTW, what is that tiny green light that lit up above the Play button? My 750 doesn't have that. It came on when you pressed Play.
@nasw Yes, the best era !, nice hi-tech consumer electronics where produced
I have sort of an odd question. I have a SLHFR-30 Betamax and wanted to know if it would be possible to hook it to a modern cable box (the box I have is the ARRIS IPC 1100)? The reason I ask is because I wanted to see what it is like to record modern tv shows with vintage video equipment.
Maybe you need a bnc to rca converter for video and then you can connect to you box from video out (yellow). Good luck with you Betamax
Nothing odd about that, that's an excellent question, that sets the ball rolling on this topic.
Of course, there would have to be compatibility of connectivity on the rear of both devices.
I still record onto VHS tapes now and then from a VCR connected to a Sky HD box, the most common method of connectivity here is the use of a scart lead.
This is based on the assumption that the rear of your Betamax device has a scart connection to match up to the connection of your cable device.
If this is not the case, then alternative connections should be possible.
There should be plenty of tips and advice you can get.
I already use Betacam tapes and got same results than pro-x.
A few units i can see have all Led's working.
@Davey656 wow thats great quality
Betamax on a plasma TV with 360p youtube quality, are you serious?
+James Bordon It was uploaded on the highest quality youtube admitted in2008, now i don't have the original for reupload
macolest UA-cam accepted 1080p before 2008, If you did the transfer right in AVI or MPEG2 it should have been at least 480p.
+James Bordon Also original video was taken by CanonPowershot IS S1, so max resolution is 480. I think youbutbe 1080 was launched in november 2009
I'm not 100% sure
donde conseguiste esa joya de la tecnología!!!?? de que año es más o menos?? en chile el vhs siempre tuvo más popularidad que el beta(y en gran parte del mundo) debido al alto costo de este último, nunca pensé que la calidad del beta fuese tan superior, el sonido no pierde su fidelidad, la imagen es sorprendente.
Sony called it "linear skating" mechanism.
@AidanLunn
Yeah, all tv stations and recording studies used Betamax, whereas the regular consumers (to whom price and value was more important) picked VHS.
What is the mark of these tapes? BC?
@macolest Actually, SuperBeta was 500 lines (even better then Laserdisc, which did 420 lines).
It was basically the most high-resolution analog format that was ever sold as a "consumer format".
@Riddler95 Betamax was 260 lines, and SuperBetamax 300lines.
Thanks for comment.
I am surprised by the good quality of the camera you have in those days
@McLarenMercedes Oh, I know. That was when I was a kid in the 80s/90s. I learned a long time ago that the winners of format wars are often the results of cost and/or ease of use, rather than quality.
But, please correct me if I'm wrong, I thought sound quality on an iPod would be more related to the sampling rate and headphones, rather than the iPod itself.
Yo, how much for that Betamax VCR. I want that.
@zombiehellmonkey it's not possible because the betamax BNC inputs (same as RCA) only supports 480i NTSC / 576i PAL (same as dvd) and if i play HD content it would be downscaled at that resolution. The final result would be the same as recording from a SD DVD - DVB source. Thanks
@someguy001001 it's about 240 - 280 lines.
@macolest Laser discs had a big market in japan oddly.
No are difficult to get, you can buy on 2nd hand stores and websites.
@09freitas Recorded from Sat - Receiver. Thanks
@BrentAudi Yes! Beta is Better!
Thanks for your comment
macolest How did you connect that betamax to your plasma?
I have a UHD TV atm and I’m trying to connect my betamax to it.
Do you know what wires and what source to play Betamax on?
AV source?
TV Such as channel 3 or 4?
Some Flat TVs still have got RCA connectors and components Inputs,also there are adaptors from RCA to HDMI.
@@maxwelltlmm4583 ummmm ok but yeah I got like composite (red, yellow, and white) which I basically use for my VCR but betamax just seems different. It's as though I need an old non-flat from like the 70s or 80s to properly hook it up. Umm RCA is composite ,isn't it?
@@stefanpoirier6810 Beta only had RCA wires,VHS did have Component (red,green,blue)and it needed two RCA plugs(red&white) to get sound: www.ebay.com/itm/284365883796hash=item4235870994:g:SD4AAOSwZ75dTu5F
@@maxwelltlmm4583 the page you sent is 'error'. I didn't know VHS had component.
Weird loading mechanism- does it wear out much?
There was a porno called "Cape Rear".
Sure!, it is
If you buy good quality professional tapes they will last longer than any digital disc for sure, DVD+R/-R still has to proof itself by time, i also shoot HDV and want to have the masters on tape for this reason. I have the SL hf 950 ES myself and i have tapes from 1987 with movies on it from that time and they are still top notch, this machine is OLD SKOOL and one of the best machines ever, my experience is that the sony super beta pro mode is simular to S-vhs or even better color
Loved my 950 - but i'll say this very quietly the picture from my C9 was better, there said it now! Have neither now - GAVE my Beta machines and over 300 tapes to a fellow Beta nut. I wonder if he still has them?
I'm back into retro gear now and wish I'd kept the lot!!
The model is: sony Betamax sl-hf950 pal/secam.
LED's circuits simply burn out and they need to be replaced--- not very complicated. They are soldered to circuit boards.
I use Betacam tapes for superbetamax pro mode, but i not worked in a professional studio, i'm only a betamax fan.
@09freitas Thanks!
hi my mate got this unit i tested it against my betacam sp what is tonss better than any home unit. i had to many sony 950 1000 2000 units in the past. they just not up to the job
you cam get a used betacam sp 100% working in the uk for £150 easy i do like this video i just wish they were made like betacam.
Wow!!
¿como la conectas a la tv?
@Riddler95 The VHS won the format war because was much cheaper, also the JVC (vhs creator) royalties for produce VHS by other marks and distribute movies were cheaper.
Also there were other factors like vhs tapes can handle 4 hours in SP mode (PAL).
Laserdisk maybe failed because discs were too big and expensive.
where can you buy one of these betamax machines
On Ebay. This model may be expensive (from 300 to 1000€) but is quite easy to find.
yes!! :)
Cannot handle, but I put tv in zoom mode
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Why your display says PAL /SECAM??
PAL ( = Phase alternating line) was the european analog TV system (UK, Italy, Germany etc.) and SECAM (= Séquentiel à mémoire) was the french TV system, also used by USSR, middle-east and some african countries. SECAM was an improvement of PAL and displayed better contrast and a brighter picture. Warning : Only the first version branded "ES" on back and "PAL/SECAM ost" on front of the SL-HF 950 can play SECAM tapes, "E" "UB" "MK2" etc. (simplified lower cost PAL only versions) are to be avoided if you are open to the non english speaking world.
Thank you for extendend info !
have faith! :)
What is that movie at the start I only know parody from Simpsons
KozenaDrzka - Retro IT, Mafia a gaming it's called Cape Fear released in 1991
I bet his HF950 has better picture quality than his camcorder. =)
Awesome but too smooth loading
QUE RELIQUIA
This VCR was Sony's flagship back then. No surprise both picture quality and mechanism reliability are still superb after twenty years.
Awesome! post a video.
Beta is always better!!
I always felt Betamax were easier to program I found that no two VHS vcrs were the same and always flashing 12:00 because no one knew how to set the clock
Yes,but the main trouble is the remote control:it hasn´t got that function except high gama models,for consumers not too often.
hey, good in plasma tv,i make a test with my Panasonic video projector, man just see the results, crisp and clear pictures, total color fidelity....
@910364 Really very nice! post a video please.
I don't have dvd standalone recorder, because i record from pc tv capture card, but still sometimes use this betamax to record tv programs!
jajaj legendaria pelicula cabo de miedo,de las clasicas de robert de niro
Con un adaptador BNC a RCA(video compuesto) y ese directamente a la TV.