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Hi. The PV-1730 was probably Panasonic's answer to the Sony SL-2700 Beta hi-fi. Like the 2700, it has direct drive reel motors and electronic servo-controlled back-tension. The same mechanism was incorporated into some Panasonic portable VCRs from the same time. The NV-180/PV-8000 being a good example.
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And the stereo Hi-Fi PV-9000 portable, can't leave that one out!
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Yeah. Quite amazing how they managed to cram the AFM circuits inside a unit that small in 1984.
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Matsushita owned a large stake in JVC but they sure didn't share any chassis or anything else. |
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Thinking about it, some of them (HR) had a centrally located DC motor between the reels for reel drive but still used an idler wheel to move one way or the other depending which direction the tape needed to go. You're probably thinking of JVC's "BR" line. My 2˘! Last edited by Ed in Tx; 05-24-2022 at 02:24 PM. |
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The HR-D470 has a separate reel drive motor but it still uses an idler tire. There's no consumer JVC with direct drive take-up and supply "pancake motors" like the PV-1730 or SL-2700. Some Grundig European-market VHS VCRs from the mid 80s have a similar setup to the PV-1730, but those utilize the U-loading system like Betamax.
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I remember getting in those HR-D470s and the Zenith version too, where the backup supercap would leak and make a mess of things on the front timer board as I recall. Some would need the star washer under a screw on the bottom deck board to ground. I installed that washer on every similar chassis JVC that came in with even the potential of needing that, just so it wouldn't come back on me. |
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And Yes I have also had the HR-U8000 S-VHS VCR as well, (which I got from the High School I went to when they retired it.) Actually I had two of them, I also got one from a garage sale one time as well, the one I got from the school had its original remote and the one I got from the garage sale didn't, the one I got from my high school when they retired it had long since died and been junked out (including the remote) by the time I found the one at the garage sale a few years later. Last edited by vortalexfan; 05-25-2022 at 02:15 PM. |
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Sorry for the confusion. The unit I have now which I think is the sister to the wood-grained S-VHS unit I was talking about is the HR-D630U Hi-Fi VHS VCR from 1987. |
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HR-D630U not S-VHS, a higher end consumer model, with central reel motor and idler drive. Any others?
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I didn't say it was S-VHS, I said it was the regular Hi-Fi VHS version of the S-VHS unit that JVC made that year because it had the same style front end layout. |
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