Show Us Your Vintage Rotating Heads

[Cadillac Kid]

Here is my 1981 Sony SL-2500 Betamax. 20 pounds 12 ounces, all metal construction. I currently use it for archiving. I love these old machines. Show us what you got.

[Captain Video]

This is the FIRST VCR manufactured in Brazil ( 1983 ), it is the Philco model PVC 1000.

[Ampico-kid]

Here's my RCA SelectaVision VCT 400 manufactured July 26, 1978. It weighs in at just over 38 lbs.


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This unit has seen a LOT of use over the years (as you can see by all of the wear and tear), but was finally retired about 5 years ago when it developed a motor speed problem.

It served me well over the years.

Bob

[Captain Video]

Very nice!!!

[VHS_2012]

Originally Posted by Ampico-kid

Here's my RCA SelectaVision VCT 400 manufactured July 26, 1978. It weighs in at just over 38 lbs.




This unit has seen a LOT of use over the years (as you can see by all of the wear and tear), but was finally retired about 5 years ago when it developed a motor speed problem.

It served me well over the years.

Bob

Poor condition compared to my Aug 28th 1978 unit. :P


My is in excellent to mint cosmetic condition

Heads have Corrosion,
it's a parts or display unit at this point
bought it for $15

I think it has a bad belt on it as well.



My prized possession is a SONY RDR-VX560
DVD-RW/VHS recored combo 19micron (Quasi S-VHS Playback as well)
the reason is it has HDMI that can be used in VHS mode

Getting the pure digital signal from the tape nets way better Picture Quality and Audio Quality. plus the dvd burns look amazing. No juddering what so ever.




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[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by VHS_2012

My prized possession is a SONY RDR-VX560
DVD-RW/VHS recored combo 19micron (Quasi S-VHS Playback as well)
the reason is it has HDMI that can be used in VHS mode

Did not know Sony sold a S-VHS pb-capable combo like that. That would be handy to have. All I recorded was S-VHS from about 1988 on so lots of the stuff I have is S-VHS.

I see a Go Video (Sensory Science) dual deck there in the stack. Used to see a fair share of those. At some point in time they had to enable copyguard in their newer machines, so that made all the old ones much more desirable to keep running.

[VHS_2012]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Did not know Sony sold a S-VHS pb-capable combo like that. That would be handy to have. All I recorded was S-VHS from about 1988 on so lots of the stuff I have is S-VHS.

I see a Go Video (Sensory Science) dual deck there in the stack. Used to see a fair share of those. At some point in time they had to enable copyguard in their newer machines, so that made all the old ones much more desirable to keep running.

I sure it has that hidden feature.

even the basic Sony "player" combo has it ,I could try it if I can find a SVHS tape to test it out I do not have any on hand


I could burn a SVHS ET then try and play it on it.

[NJRoadfan]

Originally Posted by VHS_2012

more VCR's in my collection

Pretty sure that Phillips VRA-999 is a JVC clone, without the nice JVC features like the Digipure noise reduction/TBC. Its amazing how stripped down the JVC HR-S2xxx/3xxx models are. No front S-Video input? How lame.

[VHS_2012]

Originally Posted by NJRoadfan

Pretty sure that Phillips VRA-999 is a JVC clone, without the nice JVC features like the Digipure noise reduction/TBC. Its amazing how stripped down the JVC HR-S2xxx/3xxx models are. No front S-Video input? How lame.

It's a better version more then likey a JVC HR-S4xxx series

Battery back up for the time
6 head (I check to make sure but the slow motion play back indicates 6 heads 4 for video 2 for audio)
Picture modes
19micron heads
slow motion playback.

can not go worng with it/



I may have to toss the unit because I found all the VCR's on the ground the thing that the VCR's were on top of broke so two VCR's broke

the dual VCR (damage to the case) and the phillips (does not sound right when a tape is inserted) I will check it out later. I moved all the VCR;s on to something more stable.


all the others work ok still and undamaged & tested...

I am a little pissed, but the dual unit saved the other VCR's and took most of the hit when it feel.


I only paid 2$ for the dual unit so I'll eat it up..

[jr_tech]

Two fun reel-to-reel monochrome oldies:

1972 Sony AV3400, 1/2" tape, 5" reels... picture1
1966 Ampex VR660, 2" tape 12.5" reels... picture2

jr

[Captain Video]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

Two fun reel-to-reel monochrome oldies:

1972 Sony AV3400, 1/2" tape, 5" reels... picture1
1966 Ampex VR660, 2" tape 12.5" reels... picture2

jr

Were those intended for home use???

[jr_tech]

"Were those intended for home use???"

No, I don't think that they were intended for home use, although some may have ended up in homes.

The Sony "portapack" was popular with sports coaches, golf swing experts, schools, industry and perhaps a few home movies were made with these machines.

The Ampex was semi portable... about 95 lbs, but with a handle on both ends, likely was used by some tv stations to record remote events.

I remember reading once that Hugh Hefner had a 2" Tape, quad head color Ampex at his home, in days before VHS and Beta.

jr

[Aussie Bloke]

Originally Posted by jr_tech

"Were those intended for home use???"

The Sony "portapack" was popular with sports coaches, golf swing experts, schools, industry and perhaps a few home movies were made with these machines.

jr

I've gotten hold of from a guy in Queensland Australia, a couple of early 70s home movies recorded on an early 70s Sony EIAJ standard reel-reel portapack VTR. The recordings date from 1971 to about 1973 and were done in New Zealand when he lived there, the tapes transferred successfully and the pictures were mostly in great quality. A good mix of footage of family videos and segments of New Zealand TV show footage recorded via the vidicon camera pointed to the TV screen, one of the recordings was some footage of the Bee Gees In Concert circa 1971 which I've uploaded to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO2AxOF20mw . So yep some people did own portapacks back then for domestic use of making home movies.

[Aussie Bloke]

Here are some of my old video recorders I've collected over the past 7 years:

Philips N1512 VCR SP 1976
Philips N1700 VCR LP 1978
Grundig SVR-4004 1979
VCR tapes 1970s
Sony CV-2100CE 1967
National NV-3020E VTR 1973/74 (recently gave it back to the former owner as I now have a Sony AV-3620CE VTR to transfer reel-reel videos)

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

Were those intended for home use???

Originally Posted by jr_tech

No, I don't think that they were intended for home use, although some may have ended up in homes.

Here ya go.. AMPEX at Home!