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Originally Posted by jr_tech
Nice decks!! Nice youtube video!! 
At one time, I had a VTR/VCR that was a transition between R-R and cassette machines. As I recall it was a National. The tape was contained in a small cassette with only ONE reel inside... when it was loaded the machine would thread itself around the heads and to take up reel (5"?)contained under the top cover of the deck. It was color. Do any of yours load that way?
jr
I found a picture of it, Lab guy has everything!
http://www.labguysworld.com/Panasonic_NV-5110.htm
It was more fun to watch the thing thread itself than the ONE cassette that I had. |
Ahh those National/Panasonic cartridge machines. I personally don't have any of those decks but I do have some cassettes for this machine, there was one National NV-5120A VCR on Ebay here in Australia last year but I unfortunately missed the auction. Anyhow I've learned from someone that because these cassettes are EIAJ format just like a standard EIAJ open reels, you can take the reels out and play them on a colour EIAJ standard reel-reel VTR. Very interesting format indeed too. I would love to one day own an operational National cartridge machine like this.
10-02-2009, 08:38 PM
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