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- The format war was raging on in the mid 1980's, and featured here was a VCR of epic proportions. Packed with features and digital effects, this VCR should have brought an end to VHS. It packed a powerful punch, but it simply didn't draw the rebels from their format, it drew them in even further!
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_"I managed to grab one from a guy who died!"_ Great line... IT's the only way you'll get MY Betamax machine baby!
HAHA! Yes indeed! Aren't you dying to get one now? :)
databits I'm very used to the vcr player
OMG! I love that machine! Betamax was such a superior format. Ages ago when I was still in school, one of my elect. Eng courses final exam was super simple. The instructor simply wheeled in a cart full of junk non-functional equipment and simply told us, "Pick an item. Any item. Fix it, pass my class. Unable to fix it? See you back here next year." And he simply walked out of the classroom. We could only fix items from parts that we can salvage. No purchased parts. Suffice to say, I ran and picked this guy. I seriously don't remember how I fixed this. I remember having access to the service manual from Sony on this model, but I just can't remember how I got it. When I was taking this class, internet was still in its infancy. No Google! Long story short, I passed that class and scored a super Beta HIFI deck.
That sounds like a pretty merciless final exam. Did they break them on purpose to control it a bit, at least?
Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality
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Of course Betamax only held 4.4 hours so that’s where it really sucked. VHS could record 10+ hours while I was on vacation. (Also helped save money because blanks were expensive.)
BTW professionals didn’t use Betamax because it was not broadcast quality. They used Umatic in the 70s and BetaCAM in the 80s - a completely incompatible format that ran the tape 5 times faster & recorded separated video
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I don't know what is more amazing, the fully loaded Beta VCR with all those buttons, sliders, lights and knobs...... or that still working Polaroid TV.
I'd buy that Polaroid TV for a dollar!!
I stuck with Beta, even got an ED-Beta from Japan. Wish I still had those machines! Last Beta I had died with "Amazon Women on the Moon" in it.
My Super Beta Hi Fi died about 10 years ago-it was a Radio Shack model 23 (Sanyo Manufactured)Got it as a clearance item in 1988 and it lasted me almost 20 years. Used to copy audio CDs and Vhs tapes to it. I still miss it.
My grandparents had a top-loader Betamax player in Bogota, Colombia in 1980. There was a Betamax tape rental store near their house. We watched Star Wars & Rocky Horror Picture Show hundreds of times each summer when we went down there. Those movies weren't even officially released for rental at that time!
It is a shame that there is not many things like that in this day and age. It looks beautiful.
so many beautiful knobs and buttons
Agreed.
OMG that is gorgeous!!! So many features. Thank you for the walk-around.
That was an expensive player back in the day. I had the Sony Hi-Fi 4Head VCR with the jog shuttle wheel and it was the bomb. I enjoyed watching movies on that player. That's when it was cool to catch the mistakes in movies. It was to me better than when the DVD actually came out. And it was better than Laserdisc.
the narration is so thrilling
💯⭐️🇹🇷👍 I have nearly 100 betamax and vhs devices in stock, I have nearly 10,000 betamax and vhs tapes, these are excellent devices and tapes.
I had one of these back in the day!
It never saw video, it was a dedicated audio recorder for my amateur recording studio.
It's a bittersweet video to watch, because my ex-wife destroyed all of it back in 2002...
Kentucky Ranger Sorry for your loss. THAT BITCH!
I had a Beta player growing up. Never owned nor truthfully recall ever seeing a single movie for it in the video store. Didn't even know anybody else who owned one. My family only ever had blank tapes for it that we used to record movies and shows off the television.
I remember my first VCR was a betamax back around 1984 and it weighed a ton, the first video rental movie I got for it was a horror movie called scanners. The peculiar loading mechanism for betamax tapes was known as 'omega wrap'. What amazed me at the time was that you could record a picture off of the television and play it back instantly, as this was back in the day when if you took a photo with a camera you had to take the film to be developed. I have only one surviving VCR left and it is a VHS/DVD player combi.
Actually, it was known as C wrap. Omega wrap as far as I know was only used in some reel-to-reel systems. The weight of your 1984 machine may have been peanuts compared to models from only a few years before. Betamax development really took off around 1982/1983.
Sony called it U load. It was the same technique they used in Umatic VCRs
chooo chooo! thank you for this video. very informative! ive always been curious about this.
I love how beta max tapes look
Alas nothing quite like this was sold in the UK.
awesome channel. Subbed!
That unit is aesthetically pleasing, that's all that matters to me
Absolutely great deck - something we never saw in Europe with the HF950 being the top of the range machine before time was called and the F25 was the last very basic Beta in the UK. Interesting that the F25 was the last machine in the UK in 1986 but in Japan the last machines where still available until 2002. Great video - love it!
Isn't the 950 the drawer loading super beta machine?
The "Faroudja" brand logo on the back of the machine indicates that Sony used a Faroudja chip for separating the 3.58 MHz color carrier from the luminance carrier during recording of composite and demodulated RF TV channels. In theory all Betamax could have an S-video output and your an see on the back of this deck that there is a covered up blank spot where they might have provided an S-video jack.
Great info! Thanks for sharing!
And those things are copyrighted, so you do see that on the back
Para mim Betamax é tudo! Tenho 24 modelos diferentes de várias marcas na minha colecção,não faltando o Sony HF-SL950 SuperBeta,e muitas cassetes originais.Amo de todo este formato!
Eu tenho alguns VHS e um SVHS novinho mas esse aí superou qualquer expectativa. Que máquina!
I love analogic vcr's and all in one stereo systems
I have a perfect SL-HF870D (the little door is even attached!) I bought back in 1991 and it still works excellent. The best feature is the digital full-speed scan which can only be accessed from the remote and is unique to this model and it's SL-HF860D predecessor which allows scanning at the maximum possible fast forward (or rewind) speed.
That multi thumbnail screen view is excellent for analysis of golf swing form....
I hope us beta fans can start a Betamax revival this decade. Much like how vinyl and Polaroid instant film made a comeback, I'd like to see beta get the second chance it so desperately needs.
Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality. There’s no reason to resurrect betamax.
@@electrictroy2010 Vinyl has got less reasons to resurrect:overrated sound,scratch,one format that never progressed in time,polluting material in excess,it sucks such garbage,Betamax is the Panda bear of the technology
I hope it does one day. There's a bit of a revival right now. I remember about 20 years ago you couldn't even give them away. Mentioning Beta was like offering to give someone AIDS but now everyone is buying them up either for replacement parts or for a piece of nostalgia-tech.
Who knows, it might just gain some steam if people start giving their friends and relatives a Betamax tape as a joke gift for Christmas or Birthday.
I like the style youre trying out.
Thanks Matt
Well, now wait a minute. I believe Beta had HiFi helical audio, meaning excellent analog audio. In addition, (at the same time), the Beta video track could be used as a huge amount of tape to connect a Sony PCM-F1 or similar digital unit, making this as you said, the first consumer or mass produced digital recording device. In 1982-1983 this was very special.
Old Bete HiFi VCRs like the 870D, 750 and 950 are highly prized for this reason as many recording studios used Beta video tape for audio recording and have huge libraries that are too extensive and expensive to convert to digital yet too valuable to throw away leaving Beta VCRs as the only way to access old recordings.
Shame it's missing the front button cover/door
It's... beautiful.... also... way better than any VHS picture.
Super VHS (420 lines) blows away this guy’s Super Betamax (300 lines). Also Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality
there was this easter egg premo moment in the start, and it's 2020...
That is one fine Betamax, and the SuperBeta picture quality seemed so much "beta" than VHS
Super VHS (420 lines) blows away Super Beta (300)
VHS/Beta hifi is my fav analog recording medium. As long as you don't swap machines it sounds great, just a little bit compression is all.
Compression?
Nice video, I also have my collection of Superbetamaxes, some older went to new houses, after I replaced with other models that found on swap meets of flea markets, and I restored, but now become to scarce so perhaps I let go some of it to some ones that want to invest on a classic machines and take care well
nice work
Good lord that betamax machine has more buttons, knobs and switches than the flight deck of a 747! Bet its operations manual was just as beefy :)
Yeah, ain't it cool. It gives people the impression that you know what everything does and how to do it. It intimidates those who don't know how to use it into leaving it alone for fear of setting off the Self Destruct sequence.
The functions on the right-hand side of the recorder might be for doing Stop-Motion animation. I remember back in the day, you could hook a camera up to a Betamax recorder and certain machines could record 3 frames at a time.
Sony made a stand alone digital effects box that you hooked between the Betamax and the TV.
Amazing
Vhs ,как говориться курит ..
What device did you use to interface to the monitor ?... If that's what it was...... If it wasn't, could you recommend one ?
Betamax was a wonderful system. The build of the Sony equipment was always great. Unfortunately most consumers were happy with a lower quality. The quality of Betamax was only discernible in an A/B comparison on high end equipment properly adjusted. Back in the 70/80s Most consumers were content with their TVs with purple/green skin tones and lousy contrast. So, back in the 80s, before DVD, before HD, Before LCD/LED/OLED TVs and Before Satellite digital signal... VHS was Just right for the times. But it should also be noted that in Europe and parts of Asia, Betamax held a much wider portion of the VCR market
Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality
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Of course Betamax only held 4.4 hours so that’s where it really sucked. VHS could record 10+ hours while I was on vacation. (Also helped save money because blanks were expensive.)
Hello ,im from russia and i watch you chanell and i like it
How the fuck did this not make it this is so much better than vhs what the hell
When this video started I thought you had had a premonition of the US in 2020!
If where Sony I would have marketed super beta HI-FI as a alternative for real to feel tape for audiophiles, after the movie system failed.
Beta PCM-F1 format sort of did that.
VHS marketed ADAT (digital tape on videocassette). You can see how well that worked to attract audiophiles (not at all)
The "Main" and "SAP" switch at 7:05 if the user set it to SAP without knowing what they are doing and when they record an over the air analog TV broadcast if the station doesn't have the SAP content or not broadcasting in MTS stereo at all there is no audio recorded on the linear track resulting in no audio if the tape is played on a non-Hi-Fi machines. Unlike the later VCR which the SAP is actually auto-SAP which means if there is no SAP content the linear audio automatically records the main audio. By the way, although that model can only record βII & βIII speed, it can also play (but not record) βI speed from early Betamax machines.
I guess I'm in the rebel category as I still own 2 Beta decks and have one inline and use it. ~Jack, VEG
Jack is such a rebel.
15:03 that sensor is actually to detect the end of tape, rather than there's a tape present. Beta uses a metal foil leader at the beginning and end, and that's what that sensor detects. VHS on the other hand uses a transparent leader, and it shines a beam of light to detect end of tape.
I think it was a late 80s fad, the digital effects things. Quite a few TVs had similar as well, like PiP, freeze-frame, mosaic, etc.
I use to have a Betamax a long time ago . I took it to go get it fixed and then I never seen it again . They sold it that made me mad that they did that . I would love to get another Betamax but can not find anything cheep . I looked on ebay and on amazon but they cost to much for a used machine . I still have some tapes but nothing to play them on . I only have a few tapes
We had a Sl-hf950 bought around 90, when the format was already dead all around europe. It was a marvelous piece of equipment. But it felt like having a Maclaren super sports car, but living in a remote area with dirt roads.….you could not rent any new film, buying tapes was miserable, as they were more expensive than vhs, and you knew they were lying in those shelves for years, so you were paying a premium but never getting a fresh tape….. as for superbeta tapes….. forget about it. In Madrid you could have them mainly in Sony Gallery Stores, paying a 50% more for a tape a 50% shorter (against a s-vhs jvc/tdk tape, also scarce but easier to get) . Remember in Pal territories we didnt had any LP for beta… So it was an disastrous movement as it was probably the best machine in some terms ( it had no nicam! we couldnt receive the same high quality sound or the hability to record a film in both spanish and english or whatever….) but it was more expensive for the mere edge (if so) over the vhs. We ended up buying a JVC s-vhs, we could rent anything, we could use a svhs tape to record in LP 8 hours of stuff when we were away for holidays or sleeping, we could have terrific sound and images (and dual laguage) for less and still exchange tapes at school (svhs at home tapes were only for backing up handycam family videos, and programming, We record them over and over with no degrading effects) I get some of you, betaheads are always complaining about quality and stuff, but to regular families, for a regular use, a nice top line vhs (stereo-hifi) or even more, a svhs using svhs tapes for some applications, was way way more convenient. For us, buying a beta, was a huge mistake!
nice
I don't understand why the Drop-Out Compensation don't work? You can see the Drop-Outs in the Picture (Drop-Outs are the withe and black small Horizontal Lines that we can see). Also there is no Sync insertion from the Digital part they verget to build in this. The Sync only came from Tape. We can see that the Horizontal Lines are not every time on the same position.
At last, a great vid about a Beta deck.
I'm still Beta, though
By the way Sony Beta(and VHS) decks *seems* to be manufactured on Sony's Kisarazu "factory" on Japan(explains that KZS sticker: S KISARAZU)
Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality
I had that exact model! Damn was it sweet! My Dad still has it somewhere in the basement stack of antiquated technology.
It is a simplified version of the U-MATIC video system.
More like miniaturised.
Umatic is 3/4 inch tape. All Sony did was shrink to half-inch tape and call it Beta
@@electrictroy2010 Maybe SONY should have stayed with 3/4" Chrome Dioxide Tape and would have killed off the VHS format because the picture quality is pretty near perfect as is the audio if the Video heads are also laying down the Audio track and I don't think that VHS could match the near perfect Quality of U-MATIC.
While I do appreciate the Sony Betamax machines, it was the VHS camp which eventually won me over due to pricing, longer record time and significantly less videotape dropouts on VHS as opposed to Beta! This is one issue that I hardly see discussed...the video dropouts between Beta and VHS videotape.
Is this unit missing a door for the controls on the bottom left?
While the VHS and BETA simpletons were fighting each other the real movie enthusiasts just got themselves a Laserdisc player and enjoyed high quality picture and sound without any issues.
The Shadow Man
No!! Laser disc sucked! giant discs that had to be flipped was annoying
The real purpose of VCRs were to record programs to watch at a later time, you couldn't do that with laserdisc,
I am aware of that. But both the recorder footage as the commercially released tapes sucked and became worse with every play, I simply don't get the commitment to this.
disk rot
Only very few titles and it is very well documented by LDDB which ones have rot and which aren't.
Most discs from Japan are spotless
Mine is still working , but I don’t remember how to connect it
Just match up the connector colors on the back of your TV, assuming it has an RCA input. If it doesn't, you can still buy an RCA to HDMI adapter that would work. It should say input and output where the RCA jacks are.
Wouldn't it be cool if those guys that were shown biking just happened to watch this video.
Yes, it would!
Whats a fair price for a beta player? My local record shop has a super beta for $100 with 8 blank tapes. Is that fair?
+Zach Mueller - I got this one in trade. I paid $15 for my Beta X1 Industrial unit. I would pay $100 for a superBeta deck in mint condition. Which model is it?
databits I believe it is a sl-hf360
Databits what video camera do you use to record your videos ?
Iphone 6 Plus
databits i might one day get beta
My parents had a Sanyo Betacord when I was little. It was a model 4670. It began eating tapes so it was put in my great grandmothers attic until my high school days when we cleaned all our old stuff out of her attic. We brought it home and I tinkered with it but couldnt figure out what was wrong with it. It ended up in a dumpster at the nearest city dump. It wasnt a hifi model. some guy on ebay was sellingone of the very last sony models released in the US for like $650 on ebay. He said was manufactured in 93. I think $650 is rediculous for a beta vcr. I'd like to have a hifi beta vcr, but I dont want to spend an arm and a leg either. I'm wanting one thats already been serviced. I think $150 is plenty for one. I dont really care which name brand it is becuase sanyo and sony both made great products. I'm wondering what my chances are of finding one in the $150 or less price range?
6:18 you can’t play a Super Beta recording on a regular Betamax player? Were there any special blank Super Betamax tapes just for these?
Sony manuals say Super Betamax will play on standard betamax VCRs, but with some noise in high-detailed image
No special tapes needed, although Sony recommended high grade tapes to get maximum value from your SBeta machine.
I'm still yet to see a Beta with a sufficient dropout suppression system.
Is there any way I could contact you? I have an audio demo cut on vhs tape of like you to check out
"It's the choo-choo train loading mechanism"! OM gosh, I belly-laughed when you said that! As you noted I also used 1 of my SL-HF units as an audio deck with frequency response of 20 - 20,000 Hz with just about 0% distortion figures and 85 db S/N ratio. The nomenclature for video quality was somewhat odd however between Beta and VHS and was based on picture resolution as expected, and noted, but the order of introduction of competing systems was a bit wrangled between SONY and JVC. As a base there was Beta 1 & VHS SP. Beta had better video ( and sound ) quality. Then along came Beta II & III and VHS SP, LP & SLP/EP (VHS SP AND BII video quality was equal but VHS won in the audio dept. (33 vs 20 mm/sec linear speed ). Then Super Beta & VHS HQ. As long as a VHS m/c had 2 of 4 technical video requirements met it had the HQ added, but Super Beta won out in video quality. Then Sony's hifi came out followed closely by VHS HIFI. Then finally came Beta ED (Extended Definition ) & Super VHS. These last 2 had video definitions just about equal to the video standard for NTSC broadcast.I always thought that there should have been a hybrid machine using Beta's larger head drum and VHS's tape wear friendly M-load system, but tape 's days were numbered. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for the comments and history!
Actually, it was the C wrap system used by betamax that was the most wear friendly. If you want to combine a large head drum and C wrap, look into the Philips VCR and VCR LP formats.
Sony called it U load; same mechanism as their Umatic VCRs
Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality
Beta-I speed was disabled by Sony in 1977. Might as well never exist, since so few customers were able to use it
I think Beta devices are rare because a) a lot of people tossed them out when VHS won b) many people nowadays think their old tech/junk is worth big money and sell their stuff on ebay, even if they're not likely to get much at all if not any. Back in the late 90's I saw a lot of beta pre recorded tapes but rarely a player/recorder. Even back then they were sort of rare.
Check again. Rare VCRs like Super VHS and Betamax are getting $400
@@electrictroy2010 They are deluded lol.
Super VHS isn't even rare and neither is Super beta.
ED Beta? Now that's rare.
Ok. Whats the difference in a 4 head hi fi and a 6 head hi fi vhs? How much better is the picutre and sound quality? Is it as good as beta hifi or not?
A high number of heads assists with special effects capability and sometimes with edits (with a flying erase head). It's as good as Beta Hi-Fi, technically.
Extra heads also allow better play of different speeds
Too bad the Betamax was WAY too expensive for consumers compared to the VHS...
Oh well, at least it survived up to 2016 as a VHS alternative that got more affordable overtime. Maybe not for watching the latest movies like originally, but for taping TV programmes and capturing good life memories.
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1:51 Sony went out like Sega.
If I put a beta tape in regular size vcr player. What happens?
It doesn't fit, won't get pulled inside.
I have to admit the betamax machines do looked considerably more upmarket and have much better build than VHS players.
The looks of the early to mid-80s Sony machines gives me hard on damn they made some sexy machines back then.
Even if I have no use for it I'd just get the a betamax machine just for the looks alone!
Too bad Sony was focused too much on Beta and Video 8 so they ended making the worst Laserdisc players.
Barebare kun If I recall correctly, Betamax was more expensive to manufacture. This meant it could not compete with VHS.
I doubt that. Betamax and VHS are basically identical. However VHS did have advantage of multiple manufacturers constantly improving it
Awesome review and demonstration. But I can't consider Sony to be the "rebel" here. Sony ruled Japanese electronics in the 70's-80's and had the superior quality deck. But JVC won the tape format war by making VHS decks cheaper and then licensing manufacturing to any company who wanted to make VCR's. In the mid 80's you'd go to the store and see 15+ VHS decks and maybe 2-4 Betamax decks on sale, or less.
The rebels I refer to were the Betamax users who stood by their format even while the VHS camp was getting all the new releases and more VCR models to choose from.
Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality
The very first thing I noticed - in the first few frames - was there’s only composite video in on the front. What a wasted opportunity. If you’re going to create a SuperBeta machine (or SuperVHS for that matter) why would you skip an S-Video connector on any input or output? This may be able to record SuoerBeta, but doesn’t have any way of getting the better signal either in or out on any input or output.
I see a disadvantage and it's not the output that separated the crominance and luminance's signal
What is the disadvantage?
We all knew that sony had the best player, I wanted one yes everyone wanted betamax. But why did we not buy betamax, becouse all movies that was released on video was on vhs lets say 99.99% of all stores did have vhs. So the choice was easy to select your player if you wanted to watch movies. And at that time we have one maybe two channels. So watching demo of these amazing betmax players yes I regret not buying one but I loved watching movies too.
I have both Bata and vhs DVD blueray to
I own a Sony sl - hf500 betamax player and it worked really well for about 3 days. The picture and the sound is very crisp and clear, but after trying to watch my Back to The Future Beta tape, the unit went completely dead...except for the front display. It will not eject my Back to The Future tape and I'm not happy about that at all. I love the Beta format vs Vhs, but I haven't had the greatest luck at all with the players... smh. The display shows the unit is playing, rewinding, of fast forwarding, but the tape mechanism is completely dead. The lights are on, but nobody is home...smh.
I'm so sorry Raymond. Unfortunately not all decks were made with the same high quality circuitry.
Check the belts
I have the 5:50 and the 1000, the 1000 has a jog shuttle dial for editing
Disney is planning to release The Princess Diaries (2001) on Betamax in a few years if it is coming back
I don´t believe Beta to come back,however if that wished return happens Ill buy one unit in that moment,´waiting for upgrades,though I had got Hard-Drive,DVD and Blu Rays and USBs,Betamax is classy.
I can't believe that unit doesn't have an S-Video connection.
Doesn’t really need S-video. 300 lines resolution is still achievable with composite video + the COMB filter in the TV
@ 03:11
... there were rumours that MCA distributed the movie - but unless any evidence surfaces, it will remain a mystery.
A thought arises...
If beta or vhs tape players had left right channel isolation, doesn't that mean you could cram about 20 hours of good, hifi music on a single tape? That's pretty incredible.
Betamax only held 4.4 hours max. VHS could do 10+
@@electrictroy2010 that's still almost 9 and 20 hours of music respectively if you don't mind mono audio
still have unwrapped beta tapes.
Cool unit but only 3 beta units had s video much better
That Almost Extremeley rare vcr betamax
That is one heck of a Betamax machine! I'd like to get a high-end Beta VCR but the prices are insane! Right now I have a Sony SuperBeta SL-HFR70 which I was lucky to find at a local flea market for $20. I'd like to get the HFP-200 Stereo processor for it but the only ones on Ebay are around $100 in non-working condition! It is crazy how expensive some of the Betamax stuff is. I did however just find a good deal on a Sony Betamovie BMC-200. I've been wanting a Betacam for a long time but never came across one at a decent price. I got it for $25 but it doesn't have the AC adapter. I'm hoping I have one from another device that has the same voltage and amps that will work with it.
BetaCAM is incompatible with Betamax…. two completely different standards.
Yeah, linear audio on vcrs is LIKE a cassette deck in function...but even a gpx boombox cassette deck sounds better then a mono linear vcr...
I still make audio/dj'ed mixes on vhs hi fi...9 hrs tapes are great for parties, put whatever video you please over the audio , only trouble is they wear out far faster then cassette or open reel tape , any video noise is audible even if you don't record any video, the video drop outs will be audible , otherwise it's CD quality but with the presence and warmth of true analog ...and with a newer vcr with real time counter, very easy to cue...
Audio cassettes are about 4 cm/second and videotape is 2 cm/second. So yes there’s reduced audio quality.
what in the world is Thomas Edison Grease?
Elbow grease? Hard work.
there is no age on the deck . no dust no nothing
There is a drop down door missing below the front loading slot that should cover all of the fine tune buttons, knobs and switches. No doubt it is nice...but not mint.
"Super Beta Hi-fi" - seriously this unit looks like it was released 15 years ago. - They should have called Mosaic "8-Bit"
1:15 Did you just spit on your Betamax?
In Europe we also had Philips' Video 2000 system which was superior to the other 2 systems, but also Philips couldn;;t compete with VHS. Philips almost Always have the best system but people never see that so they buy other systems like here the VHS.... A pity in my opinion... But this system was never made available in US I think...
Tech Connections did a standard VHS versus standard Betamax comparison. They are basically identical in image quality. Ditto Video 2000
1970's, not 1980's
It's got a headphone jack. Did they seriously expect me to clunk in my buds and sit 2 feet away from it?
Ummmm…. they made headphones with 10 foot cords
Often SuperBeta HiFi VCRs like this one were used for audio recording at professional recording studios and in that situation having a headphone jack would be useful.
HI betacam can kick this right behide i had a deck like this they can't make a work horse is your studio they wear out to fast why i went to betacam sx digi sx for
mats
Beta = CD quality , VHS = DVD quality
Super VHS approaches DVD quality