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Old 07-12-2013, 03:32 PM
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Thumbs up VK member sent me a PXL2000!!!!!!

A VK member sent me a surprise from Philadelphia .

A Fisher Price PXL 2000 video camera to play with!!!

So COOL!! and I remember always wanting to play with one of these but managed to always HEAR of it, but NEVER see one in person...and now I have what appears to be a well loved one, but looks to be in okay shape.

All I've done so far is put a bunch of AA batteries in it and see that it does appear to run a 90 minute high-bias tape at high speed in it's transport. I will hafta look for instructions on what exactly comes out of that RCA jack on the back. I suspect it's likely channel 3 RF...so will be easy to find an RF switch like the one I use for the Atari, and feed it directly to an external antenna on any number of my little mini B/W sets. (I'll find the PXL-2000 specific little monitor at some point....but that little "monitor" is really just a rebranded Magnavox Shadow I think).

It's beautiful timing....because this would be VERY fun to play with on the Singer TV6U I got going last night. How cool would that be...the pixelated B/W output to a trippy looking little industrial style TV set

Maybe I can find a simple "RCA to 1/8" adaptor at a Tandy store tomorrow. It would make that connection look real clean without the big switcher box.

Pictures.....as soon as I can get to 'em...DEFFINATLY!
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Old 07-12-2013, 03:39 PM
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Oh no.....Some mod HELP!!

Please move this to an appropriate category. I JUST noticed it isn't where it belongs.

I meant to put it wherever "tape" and recording media was.
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Old 07-12-2013, 03:51 PM
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Oh wow, I recall someone mentioning one of those here before. Good catch. Recording video on a compact cassette? Never heard tell of that before hearing of this camera. Oh, by the way, get lithium batteries. I'm guessing that this unit would eat alkaline batteries quickly. Also, I have never seen a lithium battery spring a leak.

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Old 07-12-2013, 03:58 PM
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Seems like I remember reading at the time that there was some fairly clever engineering that went into these little guys.. Good score/gift !
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Old 07-12-2013, 09:25 PM
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A PXL-2000 manual for 10 bucks if you're interested:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/161000307696
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Old 07-13-2013, 03:25 PM
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What a score! I have wanted one of those cameras for years (but not enough to pay $eBay$ prices).

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