Whats your oldest tape?

[ESigma25]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

I've got Zenith's first Betamax deck, that tape would go good with it.

I've got pretty near their first, it's a behemoth. The Zenith "Video Director".

Doesn't work, it does thread tapes but refuses to play them.

https://i.imgur.com/BVTEdki.jpg

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by ESigma25

I've got pretty near their first, it's a behemoth. The Zenith "Video Director".

Doesn't work, it does thread tapes but refuses to play them.

https://i.imgur.com/BVTEdki.jpg

I had one of those. I think they get bad caps on servo speed control circuit mine had a weird issue where it would only play at BIII speed no matter what the tape was recorded at.
It fell and I had to glue the cabinet.... Still worked after that. I had the Sony version working so I ended up selling or donating mine.