folks, what about vintage video-recording ? lately i got quite a passion for the brand Sanyo. what a wide production-line - with very, very few examples for modular-systems - any product seems to be different - but more about that in a different thred, soon ! now i was offered a 70's Sanyo V-Cord portable system (camera, p/s, recorder) plus a handfull of V-Cord cassettes. and yes, i will take it, but can only pick it up on the weekend. i don't know if it's working, but for sure i'll do anything to get it to work, i'tll be the basement for my own private personal B-movie anybody here who's into vintage video-recording, i mean long before VHS ? what's your experiance ?
Dude, you scared me! Got myself some fun memories: Who cares about video of me sitting on the potty!? Wish there was a video or maybe just a recording of mini-me playing piano, with my best buddy Tim (white lab rat) running over the keys while mini-me attempted to play Schubert!
Wow that's sounds interesting Auto, I'm guessing there are no prerecoded tapes for itvjustvself made ones? Look forward to some snaps
The only thing i remember before VHS( or maybe at the same time) was Sony Betamax which in my opinion was even better than VHS. I remember watching some movies with a very good Betamax player called Sony T7
@autoreverser instead of removing/editing my previous post I want to apologize for my yesterday's rambling! Drinking Lager while thinking about Stephen Hawking passing and reminiscing about my own life was a bad combination! Once again, I am sorry, my post had nothing to do with our hobby
I don't think we ever got VCord in the UK. Before VHS / Betamax if you could afford a VCR you bought a Philips N1500. A couple of pre-VHS memories of mine All the time I was at secondary school 1973 to 1978 the only Video Recorder they had was a Black and White Reel to Reel machine linked to a large (probably 26" TV) in a lecture theatre. I think the Video recorder was a Shibaden. The tape would be set up and started by the school librarian Mr Tucker who had a monitor linked to it in his library office on the floor below. This was because you could almost guarantee that after about 30 minutes of playing the picture would go fuzzy and start shaking about. He would then come running upstairs and spray one of those aerosol air duster cans into the a strategic place in the mechanism while it was still running resulting in a watchable picture again ! Youngsters with their 4K Smartphones have no idea what early 1970s technology was like. The second was far more boring. During the mid 1980s I used a Sony U Matic VCR quite a bit at work. Apart from everything being bigger and heavier than VHS/Betamax it worked just as well as either of those formats. Back to Sanyo for a couple of years the Sanyo VTC5000 Betamax machine was the best selling one in the UK. However, that was because it was about 2/3rds the price of the cheapest VHS machine. Comedian Lenny Henry contributed to the demise of Betamax with a sketch that went along the lines of "When Burglars raid your house the first thing they always nick is the VCR. Well no one is going to nick my VCR. I was smart and bought a Betamax" Finally video (and other technology) enthusiasts might like to look at https://www.rewindmuseum.com/home.htm
We didn't have much of it over here outside of commercial industries. When Beta came out around 78 the machines were around $500.00 USD, big money back then. Super 8 was still somewhat popular but even then wasn't that prevalent. When mainstream video cameras were somewhat affordable in the early 80's, nobody wanted to lug around that big, mostly shoulder mounted, camera and be that dork. Finally when they shrunk to handheld size they became cool and we'd see someone taking action shots at the skateboard ramp, snowboard hills or urban exploring, now I wish we could find some of those tapes. The other issues we had when we did find the equipment for sale used was that we never knew how to hook it all up. Most of it didn't have RCA connections and the media was non-existent. You should check out the movie "Auto Focus" the story of Bob Crane from Hogan's Hero's. His best friend is a salesman for the 70's equipment and gets Bob hooked on it. The movie does have adult content and may offend some but it's a semi-biographical account of Bob's Life.
