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Just trying this now. Honestly that second USB socket is the worst! About to give up as it’s almost impossible to remove no matter how much I try 😢

Wow what a machine

Interestingly enough this was used by Eric Persing to record the samples used for his presets for the Roland D50

Thank you for providing the informative video. I have a quick question: Does the dashcam continue to record in the background while using Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, or other applications? Thank you for your time and assistance.

Hi, great video. I have a faulty Sony CMT-NEZ7DAB "No Disc" error and I suspect the CD drive unit needs replacing. How did you source yours on Aliexpress. What did you put into the search for the correct replacement component, please?

I watched a video of a dash cam installation and the guy passed the cable through a side panel. The whole process looked much easier than the one shown here. Is passing through the side panel not an option in the dolphin? th-cam.com/video/baLi6deTyiY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=1F_esEDqO9DPFbFV

Very helpful comparison! Figured the higher end DV capture devices would do better than Canopus. Also, that song was pure torture...

These kind of comparisons are useless on a YT platform unless you fit them in a 4K frame or upscale them into 4k to take advantage of the VP9 codec of the platform, 480 is severely compressed nowadays, more compressed than what it use to look like a decade ago.

It's a shame that the DN-500 doesn't save analog video in lossless AVI.

I used to fix those vcr's in the United States. They were expensive. They cost about 8 hundred dollars, and most repairs I did would cost about 2 to 3 hundred back in 1996+. Nice Video. Thank you.

Nice video Tim as usual. Re the sticking friction wheel, if its just lack of lubricant (or congealed lubricant), could you not remove it and clean it, then add fresh lubricant? Maybe it needs a spring to bias it back to the head drum which may have lost its spring. Might be hard to replace?

Are you aware that your lovely dolphin has no zinc layer? Which means that body will probably turn into rusty dust pretty fast.

26:04. MOVMENT IS JERKY. Should be smooth. Belts bad

23:37. Might be slow from same weak rewind belt

One thing I forgot to mention in the video: Datavideo made a range of similar "DN-x" DV capture devices, but not all have S-Video or Component inputs. Surprisingly, even the higher model numbers DN-600 and DN-700 have only Composite video inputs. If you need to capture from S-Video or Component, choose carefully.

beautiful, i put many videotapes from vhs to the sony dvd recorder when dvd took over. and make vhs to vhs copies with a decopier. now i am busy restoring an editing set 2x sony SLv815HQ with the video editing system XV-AL200E. (for fun).

You can burn a disc with cdtext on it

Do you have a model number for this belt, I’m having the same issue, and can’t find the same one you found. Thanks

Nice - great help

⭐️💯🇹🇷👍Depomda yaklaşık 100 betamax ve vhs cihazım var. Yaklaşık 10.000 betamax ve vhs kasetim var. İlgilenen varsa, bunları satabilirim.

Its a great video - thanks for sharing @timf-tinkering - please can you share the source you bought the camera from? So many models and price variations that makes me wonder which to buy.

I'm amazed that we can still find spare belts for such vintage equipment! 1000% worth the effort of keeping that player out of the landfill if you ask me.

Thank you for this Video! but, I have a question, maybe you can help me? I have a TASCAM DA40 and the capstan timing belt was torn. After I reinserted it, the recorder no longer winds and shows on the display: TAPE CUT??? Is it possible that you have to pay attention to the markings when inserting the new belt? like a timing chain in a car? I would be very happy about an answer, thank you very much. ☺

This Dash Cam is Universe fit global BYD model, we are interested cooperation with you this video.

Taking the picture at 11:05 the right group of 4 holes are as follows: from left to right first hole is an anchor post for the cassette. If you stick tape on it the cassette won't be in a correct position to be detected by the deck. second is the detection hole for a DDS2 120m tape, third is for the DDS1 90m tape and the fourth is open together with the second one for DDS3 120m tapes. All these DDS tapes do work together with the two Tascam DA-30 MK I that I have by permanently shorting the detection switch of hole 2. Oh and cutting the jumper wire W402 on the digital board de-activates SMCS. That's for the Mark I don't know it there is an option for Mark II

Thank you for sharing 🙂. I have also the same model. It have not failed yet.

There were also localised versions of these recorders with the same EP function for different markets. As far as I know, there were also MESECAM EP (in this mode the amount of SECAM-fire is enormous, I've tried recording. In addition, sometimes vertical yellow-green moiré appears, it depends on the cassette itself. On 2-head tape recorders everything is very, very bad), and possibly SECAM EP, in the SECAM region tape recorders I'm trying to find, they were sold presumably only in France and Switzerland (e.g. NV-HV60F). Also there was a similar feature for 525-line regions, somewhere also since 2000 introduced VP speed (like 4 or 5 times slower than standard), it worked in NTSC and obviously should work also in PAL-M (for example in NV-HV60BR model). The quality of all these slow-speed recordings depends very much on the wear and tear of the VCR mechanism, and they don't play very well on other similar recorders...

Do you still have the Sony micro system ?

Brilliant job, can you come and do mine please.

hi pre read like on the betacam a500p or a 75p liner audio

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Nice follow up 👍

Well that was very informative I enjoyed that now will have a go mine .

What a great old machine. I've never seen one of those before. Very cool tech for it's time. Thanks for sharing.

The DVD player you are using as the S/PDif source may be adding the “SCMS” copy protect code. You may have better luck with a standard ordinary CD Player that has S/Pdif output.

Any issues with e-3 errors?

Stupenda apparecchiatura VHS,che non conoscevo.non capisco una cosa,il VHS ha la traccia stereo hi fi e la traccia mono detta normal,da dove saltano fuori 10 tacce audio,non capisco

Thanks for this Tim! Going to have to give this a go sometime this week as my camera arrived this morning. I noticed that yours had a BYD logo on the sticker packaging but nothing on the camera itself. Some cameras online appear to have the BYD logo embossed onto the metal. I can't be sure if it's genuine or not

I have the harness built into the fascia where the rear view mirror is .. mines UK spec 2023 model.

Updates and things I forgot to mention in the video: * - My Dolphin was running software version 1.3, which was the latest version available at the time of recording the video. The car has since updated to version 1.4.1, and the dashcam continues to work as normal. * - I used a 128GB MicroSD card, which was originally formatted as exFAT. The dashcam seemed quite happy with this and worked perfectly. However, to avoid any possible compatibility issues, I decided to re-format the card in the car (an option under Settings in the Dashcam app), which formatted it as FAT32. * - Some cars are apparently now being sold in the UK with the wiring harness for the dashcam already in place, so it's worth checking to see if the cable is present behind the rear-view mirror before starting.

Great video! First install I've seen on a Dolphin. I installed one into my Seal which already had the wiring, just had to install dashcam, plug it in and it was all good. Its unfortunate but they are starting to come out without the cable as well. That's the hardest part to fit!

Super video (again!) Tim. I like your presentational style. We're right with you for all the twists and turns. Complete with grunts and groans and the seats brow! Just like we all do on DIY jobs. Not glamourisec, no jazzy video effects or racy music. Other Y.T usery please note. Should get a good following expecially as that beautiful BYD Dolphin is likely to "take off" in the UK.

Nice video, definitely starting at top & working down is the way to do this. Shame no way to connect up without taking all the control panel off. Now to persuade daughter to let me rip on her car. As a aside has yours updated the software on the head unit?

Thanks Tim, very useful indeed

amazing too Panasonic NV-HS930 with TBC and 3D DNR 😉

me too. When there was no input, the right side shook by itself. This may be a problem with the 10V power supply of the LINE input amplifier circuit next to the microphone amplifier circuit.👍

デジタル処理後、送信は出来ませんでした。送信機もデジタル処理があると不可能ですね。大変複雑な接続で興味深いです。👍

It was a very fun machine. 👍

Back in the 80s and 99s I used to work in merchant banking in the city of London, all trader phone (and other voice circuits) were continuously recorded during the working day, so there were many entire racks filled with this sort of recorder, and although I never came across these particular units, devices using vhs tape were common. It was someone’s job to change the tapes daily on these dozens of recorders. As noted elsewhere in the comments, that’s an RJ21 on the back, up to 25 x balanced 600 ohm line level feeds per connector, using a 25 twisted pair cable. Of course these machines are all ancient history with hard disk recording rapidly becoming the norm, the real advantage of which was not the end of swapping and storing a months worth of tapes, but same day playback, rather than having to wait for swapsies to recover the wanted tape.

Interesting experiment! Regarding the S/PDIF input the following. The Copy Prohibit flag is always high when this input is used. A digital copy is only possible with a source that allows digital copying. The digital output of a consumer CD player always has that flag high. The digital output of the CD player can be modified. But it is also possible to modify the digital input of the 601, allowing unlimited digital copying. I once did that to one of my 601s and it worked fine. It is recommended to connect the video transmitter to the Copy output of the 601. Then the best result is obtained. When a tape without copy prohibition is played and the Copy key is pressed, a stable and error-corrected video signal is presented to the copy output.