Thanks for the video! I have 2 AG-500R and one needs some repair on the VCR side. I was not sure how to open/remove the VCR from the chassis but now it will be easier to figure!
These combo players were quite common with TV broadcasters. They were typically used by field personnel, when putting a 'spot' together, for either the evening news, or editing commercials. When I was quite young, I recall getting a thorough tour of one of the local TV Stations. During that tour, we were shown several editing rooms, in which two of these VCP's were present. I believe this was around the late 1980's & early 1990's. Definitely vintage broadcast gear. Awesome to see it in action again. :)
I actually have one of these in pretty decent shape. My mother-in-law gave it to me. She was a manager of a Denny's restaurant and got it from corporate to do training videos on. Hers actually came with remote control. I've never taken apart and it works perfectly. Just clean it from time to time
Panasonic also made another model with the side ways vcp after this one called the ag-550. It has everything this unit has and more! 4 head vcr, the ability to record, and a remote. Though it doesn’t look nearly as cool as the ag-500. Very informative video that I think will definitely help somebody out, in the future.
Matsushita is prounounced "mat-soosh-ta". The "i" is silent. Fascinating product, even if it tried to eat your VHS tape. That lubricant on the cam/gear looks like Molykote, a dry Molybdenum Disulfide lubricant. Be careful, if you decide to re-lube, to clean ALL of that old stuff off. (It's like sand at the beach when it starts flaking - it gets in everything. If you don't already have a recipient in mind, might I suggest you donate this to the Vintage Geek Museum? Aaron Ishmael would likely welcome it with open arms.
Well, not "quite" silent, just really really fast. Kinda like the name Takeshi. It's there, but nearly not, more like Takesh, with a kind of after sound of an I at the end.
Thank as always for the info and great suggestion. I promised I would put it on ebay, so I will leave it there for a while and then I am happy to pass it on.
Another great video. The last time I saw one of these units was when working fast food in the late 80s early 90s. They were used to play training videos or new hire orientation vids.
Darn shame no Hi-Fi on that thing, still super cool. Put a PCM decoder on the output and watch the data packets fly by on the screen as you listen to digital music.
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I remember my aunt used to carry one of these things around with her for her job.
Thanks for the video! I have 2 AG-500R and one needs some repair on the VCR side. I was not sure how to open/remove the VCR from the chassis but now it will be easier to figure!
These combo players were quite common with TV broadcasters. They were typically used by field personnel, when putting a 'spot' together, for either the evening news, or editing commercials. When I was quite young, I recall getting a thorough tour of one of the local TV Stations. During that tour, we were shown several editing rooms, in which two of these VCP's were present. I believe this was around the late 1980's & early 1990's. Definitely vintage broadcast gear. Awesome to see it in action again. :)
Cool.
I actually have one of these in pretty decent shape. My mother-in-law gave it to me. She was a manager of a Denny's restaurant and got it from corporate to do training videos on. Hers actually came with remote control. I've never taken apart and it works perfectly. Just clean it from time to time
Panasonic also made another model with the side ways vcp after this one called the ag-550. It has everything this unit has and more! 4 head vcr, the ability to record, and a remote. Though it doesn’t look nearly as cool as the ag-500. Very informative video that I think will definitely help somebody out, in the future.
Matsushita is prounounced "mat-soosh-ta". The "i" is silent. Fascinating product, even if it tried to eat your VHS tape.
That lubricant on the cam/gear looks like Molykote, a dry Molybdenum Disulfide lubricant. Be careful, if you decide to re-lube, to clean ALL of that old stuff off. (It's like sand at the beach when it starts flaking - it gets in everything.
If you don't already have a recipient in mind, might I suggest you donate this to the Vintage Geek Museum? Aaron Ishmael would likely welcome it with open arms.
Well, not "quite" silent, just really really fast. Kinda like the name Takeshi. It's there, but nearly not, more like Takesh, with a kind of after sound of an I at the end.
Thank as always for the info and great suggestion. I promised I would put it on ebay, so I will leave it there for a while and then I am happy to pass it on.
I wish I had one, these seem so cool
at a first look thought it was a microwave
Another great video.
The last time I saw one of these units was when working fast food in the late 80s early 90s. They were used to play training videos or new hire orientation vids.
I just found one of these in my garage. If you don’t mind me asking how much is it worth if I wanted to sell it?
If you do a search on eBay and use the "sold" filter you will get a good idea.
Do you have the link for Amazon for the fuse by chance? We have the same problem and we can't find the right one. Thank you!
No problem. I put a link in the description. 😀
The music you called some kind of James Bond music, was actually from Mission Impossible.
Oh yeah. That's right!
Darn shame no Hi-Fi on that thing, still super cool. Put a PCM decoder on the output and watch the data packets fly by on the screen as you listen to digital music.
That .using wasn't from any of the James Bond movies. It was from Mission Impossible.
My school had this in first grade it had tracking issues sometimes
what a nice item
Does anyone know how much these cost for retail when they first came out?