I bet one of those radios or TVs is still working 55 years later! Sony has been a synonym of quality for decades. The work of the Japanese people depicted on this video is truly inspiring.
As in all things, that statement is relative. Sony products aren't perfect an still operating , may have been repaired multiple times. The Trinitron table top T V I use to own a capacitor tin the vertical sweep circuit fialed 3 times. The first two repairs where done following the recommended hack, Mounting the capacitor in the back of the circuit board, where it would be subject to less heat. After the third apparent failure, I opted to get a newer TV, with features the old Sony didn't have.
In my experience, Sony equipment has to be repaired as much as any other brand. At least after several decades. However, Sony has extremely good service documentation. Their service manuals are very comprehensive, and on the circuit boards test points etc are very well indicated. This makes repairs easier than with brands that (for instance) only have a circuit diagram available.
@@mfbfreak Yep Sony has the best service manuals without a doubt I have a 1960s National Panasonic radio that I bought broken, the service manual sucked bad it was a pain to get it working again but I did
But Sony needs to go back to making it's own products - exporting manufacturing to China and other third world countries is a bad idea, as they don't understand quality control there..
I recently repaired a Sony ICF-5080 radio made in about 1973 (almost 50 years ago). The only required servicing was that the volume control needed contact cleaner. I did not even have to replace electrolytic capacitors (which would not normally be expected to last 50 years). Sheer quality....I use the radio every day....precision equipment.
I have my SONY TV, sony laptop, sony smartphone, sony playstation,sony headphones and Sony Mp3 player thats how i love Sony ever since i was young age. 😊
From closely looking at the audio-video gear depicted in this film, I estimate this video dates from 1971, the 25th anniversary of Sony Corporation. As such, this film is a fine specimen of innovative, engaging corporate video production.
SONY truly is an amazing company. I hear they plan to reopen their robotics lab after it was shut down by Howard Stringer back in 2006. R.I.P Japanese manufacturing though.
That film was most informative about the manufacture in Japan of Sony electronic equipment; pre CD digital audio, DVD, Digital cameras, mobile phones, all of which they now manufacture..
I.Have Sony Radios from the late 1970s...To The Early 1980s....45-30 Years Later....Thay Still Work!!!....Sony Radios Remain The Best!!!!...This Is A Great Video... Thanks For Posting...I Wish I Can Get To Tokyo!!!
LOVE retro Sony and still have a decent 'collection' of their stuff. Sadly my Betamax machines and 100s of tapes are long gone. Just brought a Sony XR OLED tv which is stunning. Sad that like so many they now buy in so much tech (from LG) as they no longer have the skills and abilities in Japan 🇬🇧🇯🇵🇬🇧
Fun fact - I worked as a production control engineer at a plant here in the US that produced SONY branded CRTs in 2012. I was solely responsible for that production setup! Increased production output by 83% with no increase in defect rate! The tube assemblies were used in projection systems for commercial flight simulators.
Sony is the best. When the Trinitron TV first came out I compared the picture quality to others side by side and there was no doubt it had the brightest and sharpest picture I had ever seen. When the Betamax tape player/recorder came out I couldn't believe how sharp the picture was and that I could watch and pause a movie at home. Then came the Sony CD player. The first time I put on those headphones and listened to the demo CD I could swear I was in a concert hall. Recently I purchased the Sony WH-1000XM4 noise cancelling headphones. They block out all external sound except for what I am listening to. There are cheaper versions of everything but if you want quality Sony is worth the price.
No denying that Sony was a cut above the rest. As was the made in Japan sticker found on electronic items, radios stereo etc. Back then the cheap stuff was always made in Taiwan
Sony is always ahead of the rest of the world Sony has changed the way people listen to music and watch content and take photos and videos Sony fan and customer since 1996 Watching this on my Sony Xperia 1
If this video was made in 1971 for Sony's 25th anniversary, then as of the date I write this comment, this UA-cam upload is about half as old as Sony was when the video was made
ive always loved the sony products - they always tried to innovate and were well designed. i had a sony walkman in high school, and a trinitron TV, and a cordless phone, and a sony palm pilot (before smartphones), and they've always been great machines. i consider them to be the best of japanese electronics & culture of innovation. thx for sharing this video. it is good to know this history. 🙏
The good old days. Great video. I posted on supernius.pl It all began with a small radio Sony TR-55. Then there was the era of television. Sony has developed wings: Trinitron picture tubes, Betamax video recording system, MiniDisc, Memory Stick, walkman, discman, PSP. It's great heritage Masaru and Akio Morita Ibuki!
Sony Has been the top quality of electronics. This was during the days when Japan has really made very good quality products. Today this is now done in China. Japanese labor has been during that time of pride in the way they made product that worked well and for a long time.
@7:47 they are building Sony TC-580 open reel tape decks, the top of the line 7” auto-reverse open reel tape deck that Sony offered in 1973-74. I have a number of Sony reel to reel decks in my collection, with the exception of motor run capacitors they have had no electronic component failures. Sony manufactured their own transistors / diodes and used high quality components in their amplifier and power supply circuits. I have Sony gear that is 55 years old and still functioning properly with all of the original components, even capacitors.
American professional electronic test equipment company Tektronix chose Sony Trinitron picture tubes for their video picture monitors (used in TV stations etc), which says a lot about how good they were/are.
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Now I know where Sony is headquartered. And I cannot believe that Sony itself is 75 years old. As a matter of fact I didn't think that they're still around after all these years. As a matter of fact I didn't even know so know that this is the 75th anniversary of Sony the founding of it. And being over there in Tokyo Japan where their head offices now I see why. As a matter of fact I've got a radio here in the house a little transistor radio itself it's an amfm but basically it's a Sony and it works to perfection. Although I haven't used it very much but I still you don't think of it that way. But thanks for the narrator that told me all this I'm glad that that's all done. As a matter of fact I wonder if they still make a TVs anymore? Because I can tell you this much right now 75 years is a long time for Sony to be around!
My cousin recently went to Germany, and is going to try to fix her old mid 90s Video8 handycam that I'll get next year. I had cleaned it last week and it looked like it was absolutely brand new. Not even a scratch on the stickers that are 30 years old! It had spent it's last 26 years in a bag basically rotting away, and the only "damage" it got was being unable to play the tapes that were left with it, having refreshing errors at the top. I also have one, one from 2008 and everything is still perfect. Both don't even have charge issues! Who said electronics degrade in a couple years?
Como tristemente comentó un usuario, este video no ha tenido la cantidad de comentarios que merece SONY, pero si algo es inevitable es que no ha habido un habitante de este planeta que en algún momento no haya tenido un equipo electrónico de esta prestigiosisima marca. Yo poseo en la actualidad varias grabadoras entre las de cinta y cassette con sus respectivas cintas, un TV, un tocadiscos, y una video grabadora de estudio de TV con su respectiva cam- corder ( cámara de estudio y exteriores )
Issue No. 6 of the UK Official Playstation Magazine goes into a bit more detail than this and further back in history to Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. I'm currently editing a video on the mag if anyone's interested. =)
It's weird seeing curved Trinitron TVs. In the 80s and 90s the entire selling point of Trinitron vs. shadow invar was really the fact that they were flat.
Actually, that's not true. The point up to the late 90s was that Trinitron tubes were cylindrical instead of spherical, so one curved gradient instead of two. Real flat tubes were hard to get right for each manufacturer, and especially for Sony. It took them a few extra years compared to shadow mask tubes (from LPD for example who argually made the best performing tubes in the last days of the high end CRT up to their final bankrupcy in 2008) to get convergence and geometry up to standard on the large screen real flat tubes (their small screen tubes did fine in that department, but just a bit grainy).
I bet one of those radios or TVs is still working 55 years later! Sony has been a synonym of quality for decades. The work of the Japanese people depicted on this video is truly inspiring.
+Jedi Mark True
My man you are right, this is what distinguish sony from other brands. Never disappointed me .
As in all things, that statement is relative. Sony products aren't perfect an still operating , may have been repaired multiple times. The Trinitron table top T V I use to own a capacitor tin the vertical sweep circuit fialed 3 times. The first two repairs where done following the recommended hack, Mounting the capacitor in the back of the circuit board, where it would be subject to less heat. After the third apparent failure, I opted to get a newer TV, with features the old Sony didn't have.
In my experience, Sony equipment has to be repaired as much as any other brand. At least after several decades.
However, Sony has extremely good service documentation. Their service manuals are very comprehensive, and on the circuit boards test points etc are very well indicated. This makes repairs easier than with brands that (for instance) only have a circuit diagram available.
@@mfbfreak Yep
Sony has the best service manuals without a doubt
I have a 1960s National Panasonic radio that I bought broken, the service manual sucked bad it was a pain to get it working again but I did
One brand that I totally trust.
I have never had a problem related to workmanship or quality with any Sony products.
You get what you pay for.
But Sony needs to go back to making it's own products - exporting manufacturing to China and other third world countries is a bad idea, as they don't understand quality control there..
grochomarx2002 True words that ain't ever been better spoken.
True!
My MP3 Player is still going strong after +4 years.
You mean PANASONIC!! I totally agree...
grochomarx2002 Everyone does it as it’s cheaper.
Sony products have never disappointed me with their superior reliability, innovation, and price. 👊🏻
I recently repaired a Sony ICF-5080 radio made in about 1973 (almost 50 years ago). The only required servicing was that the volume control needed contact cleaner. I did not even have to replace electrolytic capacitors (which would not normally be expected to last 50 years). Sheer quality....I use the radio every day....precision equipment.
Made in Japan is the top all over the world!
I have my SONY TV, sony laptop, sony smartphone, sony playstation,sony headphones and Sony Mp3 player thats how i love Sony ever since i was young age. 😊
Sony has done so much for the world. This should have more views after 4 years of being uploaded!
« High quality is the outcome of fully motivated employees » This is sooo true. Some managers should see this video.
From closely looking at the audio-video gear depicted in this film, I estimate this video dates from 1971, the 25th anniversary of Sony Corporation. As such, this film is a fine specimen of innovative, engaging corporate video production.
Yes that seems about right. They depict the Umatic video system as new then and they were released in 1971
SONY truly is an amazing company. I hear they plan to reopen their robotics lab after it was shut down by Howard Stringer back in 2006. R.I.P Japanese manufacturing though.
That film was most informative about the manufacture in Japan of Sony electronic equipment; pre CD digital audio, DVD, Digital cameras, mobile phones, all of which they now manufacture..
Always go with Sony, quality and innovation at its best.
Not anymore since the turn of the century
Back then not now
@@swallows_golden_age_2022 Wow...
That was before. LG produces best TV and they even supply components to Sony.
Different times, different mentality, different standards of quality...
"Made in Japan" synonym for best quality...
Made in China means you bought a piece of ***it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely true
Not in the 50's.
@@josehenriq90 of you doesn't want Chinese crap you need to pay the price
@@marcellomedeiros9078That used to be true, but now a days premium Chinese products are very good quality.
love this video, no wonder SONY was so successful. Very well organized company
Not as much as it used to be.
I.Have Sony Radios from the late 1970s...To The Early 1980s....45-30 Years Later....Thay Still Work!!!....Sony Radios Remain The Best!!!!...This Is A Great Video... Thanks For Posting...I Wish I Can Get To Tokyo!!!
LOVE retro Sony and still have a decent 'collection' of their stuff. Sadly my Betamax machines and 100s of tapes are long gone. Just brought a Sony XR OLED tv which is stunning. Sad that like so many they now buy in so much tech (from LG) as they no longer have the skills and abilities in Japan 🇬🇧🇯🇵🇬🇧
Don't worry, I have over a dozen Sony Beta machines in good working order, there are still a good number around.
Fun fact - I worked as a production control engineer at a plant here in the US that produced SONY branded CRTs in 2012. I was solely responsible for that production setup! Increased production output by 83% with no increase in defect rate! The tube assemblies were used in projection systems for commercial flight simulators.
Interesting
2012?! Damn bro, plasmas have been out for a while, and some early lcds the fuck is still buying a crt in 2012! Haha 😄
Hes chatting shit, all crt sales ceases production BY 2010 in usa/ca.
Love sony, i consider myself a sony addict, best brand ever.
Sony is the best. When the Trinitron TV first came out I compared the picture quality to others side by side and there was no doubt it had the brightest and sharpest picture I had ever seen. When the Betamax tape player/recorder came out I couldn't believe how sharp the picture was and that I could watch and pause a movie at home. Then came the Sony CD player. The first time I put on those headphones and listened to the demo CD I could swear I was in a concert hall. Recently I purchased the Sony WH-1000XM4 noise cancelling headphones. They block out all external sound except for what I am listening to. There are cheaper versions of everything but if you want quality Sony is worth the price.
I am biggest fan of sony products from 90s. 😊its truly amazing company.
Sony is my favourite brand. Thank you very much for this very informative video.
look these workers, they look lovely.
I'm watching this on my Sony EV-DT1 Trinitron TV video 8 recorder from 1988 :)
The quality of the film transfer is stunning. Nice job and thanks for sharing.
No denying that Sony was a cut above the rest.
As was the made in Japan sticker found on electronic items, radios stereo etc.
Back then the cheap stuff was always made in Taiwan
Beautiful Sony History...I bet it was filmed with a Sony product...Thanks for sharing..
It was filmed with a 16mm movie camera.
@@erkanumut Sony 16 mm?
@@RobertK1993 No. Sony never made movie cameras, but 16mm magnetic recorder/reproducer and 8mm video transfer (telecine) projector.
Sony is always ahead of the rest of the world
Sony has changed the way people listen to music and watch content and take photos and videos
Sony fan and customer since 1996
Watching this on my Sony Xperia 1
Same but on a Xperia 1 iii
@@KS-gv8jy now I got my mark||
I wish theyakr a premium version next
Listening to this video with Sony headphones
All of that old electro-mechanical assembly must have been tedious. Credit to those assembly line workers!
Sony is totally awesome!!!!!
Damn straight
Great Sony.. Truly inspiring
The Film dates back in the 70ies, because of U-Matic and the WEGA logo at 12:43 (WEGA was bought by Sony in 1975)
If this video was made in 1971 for Sony's 25th anniversary, then as of the date I write this comment, this UA-cam upload is about half as old as Sony was when the video was made
ive always loved the sony products - they always tried to innovate and were well designed. i had a sony walkman in high school, and a trinitron TV, and a cordless phone, and a sony palm pilot (before smartphones), and they've always been great machines. i consider them to be the best of japanese electronics & culture of innovation. thx for sharing this video. it is good to know this history. 🙏
My dad owned a Sony HiFi system HCD-H150. Fortunately i did some repair works on it still works fully like a beast..😍
Love Sony…
Sony Engineering, Product build quality and Reliability remains epic to this day !
This is FANTASTIC! Amazing! Thank you for this!
The good old days. Great video. I posted on supernius.pl
It all began with a small radio Sony TR-55. Then there was the era of television. Sony has developed wings: Trinitron picture tubes, Betamax video recording system, MiniDisc, Memory Stick, walkman, discman, PSP. It's great heritage Masaru and Akio Morita Ibuki!
Sony make the best radio's there not only built to last but they are fantastic at receiving signals even the tough ones I only ever buy Sony radios
Sony radio and audio components recieves better and clearer FM/TV signal and I still don't know why. Haha!
A legend!
Mm mm that reel to reel tape. So awesome.
Sony Has been the top quality of electronics. This was during the days when Japan has really made very good quality products. Today this is now done in China. Japanese labor has been during that time of pride in the way they made product that worked well and for a long time.
中国制造品质不行，太差 索尼也不例外
Salute to Nippon.
@7:47 they are building Sony TC-580 open reel tape decks, the top of the line 7” auto-reverse open reel tape deck that Sony offered in 1973-74. I have a number of Sony reel to reel decks in my collection, with the exception of motor run capacitors they have had no electronic component failures. Sony manufactured their own transistors / diodes and used high quality components in their amplifier and power supply circuits. I have Sony gear that is 55 years old and still functioning properly with all of the original components, even capacitors.
This is mainly from 1974 with footage from years before that.
American professional electronic test equipment company Tektronix chose Sony Trinitron picture tubes for their video picture monitors (used in TV stations etc), which says a lot about how good they were/are.
Very interesting to know about "Sony"
Hi from Ekranas!!! Biggest FACTORY in Panevezys!!! WE WERE supported by America France Sweden Japan 'specialists'for 20years!!! ACIU Mersi Thanks Arigato
12.13 I don't know why I am crying.Lots of love and respect for SONY and my Japanese brother from Bangladesh.
Thank You sony for making our life Easier, Very Thank you from PAKISTAN
Yeah SONY means quality at it’s finest I still own a SONY BETAMOVIE cámara and 38 years latter it still works and the batteries still hold charge
Please Come back Japan version
Sony Mobiles please your old products spirit
Now I know where Sony is headquartered. And I cannot believe that Sony itself is 75 years old. As a matter of fact I didn't think that they're still around after all these years. As a matter of fact I didn't even know so know that this is the 75th anniversary of Sony the founding of it. And being over there in Tokyo Japan where their head offices now I see why. As a matter of fact I've got a radio here in the house a little transistor radio itself it's an amfm but basically it's a Sony and it works to perfection. Although I haven't used it very much but I still you don't think of it that way. But thanks for the narrator that told me all this I'm glad that that's all done. As a matter of fact I wonder if they still make a TVs anymore? Because I can tell you this much right now 75 years is a long time for Sony to be around!
¡Excelente material de archivo audiovisual! ¡Felicitaciones por su trabajo y su difusión! ¡Saludos desde Argentina!
I wish CRT TV’s were still produced.
Sony rulez! As simple as that!
Thank you for the upload!
long life for sony
It's been produced after 1971 because Umatic tapes are shown
the only brand which i trust till this date
AMAZING HISTORY
My cousin recently went to Germany, and is going to try to fix her old mid 90s Video8 handycam that I'll get next year. I had cleaned it last week and it looked like it was absolutely brand new. Not even a scratch on the stickers that are 30 years old! It had spent it's last 26 years in a bag basically rotting away, and the only "damage" it got was being unable to play the tapes that were left with it, having refreshing errors at the top.
I also have one, one from 2008 and everything is still perfect. Both don't even have charge issues! Who said electronics degrade in a couple years?
i need just sony
I love this company ❣️
Sony products are great
SONY has been great as yet.
those were the days...
And Sony now had PlayStation music (SME) movie and television (Sony pictures) company’s like Columbia Pictures and more
As I child, It was my dream to become an engineer at Sony. I've become an engineer, that's a thing. Working at Sony is the impossible dream though 😉
You never know !
But Sony these days isn't an innovator anymore
@@BavarianM I do realize now that not all dreams come true and innovation is a personal talent.
@@BavarianM They are but it's tough market there is huge amount of competition from China Taiwan and South Korea.
Awesome video!
I love SONY.
Great video, Are there any videos like this during the 80's showing walkman assembly lines?
8:00 That oscilloscope in the background looks a lot like a Heathkit.
and it loos like 5 people never had the chance to own a trinitron :)
just had to drop that in there.
Como tristemente comentó un usuario, este video no ha tenido la cantidad de comentarios que merece SONY, pero si algo es inevitable es que no ha habido un habitante de este planeta que en algún momento no haya tenido un equipo electrónico de esta prestigiosisima marca.
Yo poseo en la actualidad varias grabadoras entre las de cinta y cassette con sus respectivas cintas, un TV, un tocadiscos, y una video grabadora de estudio de TV con su respectiva cam- corder ( cámara de estudio y exteriores )
What's the name of the songs in the video?
It`s not a Trick, it`s a Sony!
It's a SONY! 😀
80s Sony slogan
Thanks for the great upload man.
Japan the country of smart people :-)
yeah, OK. Smart ultra-racists. BUT I LOVE MY PS4 SO DONT BE MAD TO ME!
I just love it.make believe...
7:00 Damn that's a lot of coolant
Yeah, don't want to take any chances of chips jamming that swiss lathe
Funny @ 8:05 they use a Conrac video monitor to do ailments. And the DXC cameras or "lagatrons"
Do you mean that the early DXC Trinicon tubes were laggy
@@KylesDigitalLab yes. They were horrible. Def not broadcast quality
sony- give the best of electronics !..nothing to compare
I love for Spice Girls, Backstreet Boys and Sony
11:41 for this unique reason jvc kills betamax,and for the cassette recorder this video was made in between 1974 or 75
That is not a Betamax, it's a U-matic. The film was made around 1971-72
Thanks a lot for the upload!
@ 2:51 CRF 150's or 160's on the assembly line. An excellent radio and great sounding as well. Sony at it's best! I own a CRF 150 and a CRF 5100
*RESPECT!!!*
GREAT!
No,1 Sony in the world
I love Sony
Sony ...the name u can trust
good sony..🤩🤩🤩🤩
Issue No. 6 of the UK Official Playstation Magazine goes into a bit more detail than this and further back in history to Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. I'm currently editing a video on the mag if anyone's interested. =)
love you Sony
Fantastic. I have a few of the products from this film in my collection, and they work fine still in 2018.
I love watching this video. The Japanese destroy the American electronic industry. I love sony style.
Makes you think what a protective homogenous society can do.
Seth Abdul racist
They "build better mouse traps."
Sony is really would renewed company...
It's weird seeing curved Trinitron TVs. In the 80s and 90s the entire selling point of Trinitron vs. shadow invar was really the fact that they were flat.
Actually, that's not true. The point up to the late 90s was that Trinitron tubes were cylindrical instead of spherical, so one curved gradient instead of two. Real flat tubes were hard to get right for each manufacturer, and especially for Sony. It took them a few extra years compared to shadow mask tubes (from LPD for example who argually made the best performing tubes in the last days of the high end CRT up to their final bankrupcy in 2008) to get convergence and geometry up to standard on the large screen real flat tubes (their small screen tubes did fine in that department, but just a bit grainy).
Thanks for sharing precious vdo