Hi Dave, after watching your videos of servicing VCR's. I took up the task for repairing a Sharp VCR VN-6V3NR. Thanks to you, i got it working. Unfortunately I didn't shoot a video but when it worked i felt so great. Thank you once again.
This one would have been a gag reel i'm pretty sure. When I was doing commercials there were plenty of bloopers and outtakes and sometimes the pitchman while shooting miss reads the cue card, and just goes off script and has some fun. Here is a link to the original. th-cam.com/video/vh3Di3LY6Ns/w-d-xo.html
That why I like tube radio they last 50 plus years ,new caps ,maybe new tubes ,then its good for another long time ,then everything that was metal is now plastic.I hope you will fix some old radios,I miss that fix from you ,And we all learn a lot from you ,you been generous with your time.nice save ,they should make vcr,s for people who still want watch there old tapes ,I bought a DVD recorder to copy VHS to dvd,s and I think it worked both ways ,my x has it now .but I think there are some options .
As a kid when these were new, a machine that ate tapes was a death sentence. I can't tell you how many VCRs I brought home with me from trash cans and dumpsters that worked just fine minus something like this. This is back when a new VCR was a couple hundred bucks before DVDs. The ones I couldn't fix I would just take apart and put back together over and over. I still remember the smell of the grease that was inside those units, some of that stuff just would not wash off your hands.
@12voltvids, I always enjoy your VCR repair videos and the sounds of a old VCR. I also learnt a few things about broadcast standards, also really enjoyed the commercial at the end, I wish all car dealers were that honest LOL
There were lots of them. I used to watch many of the LA stations on big dish satellite back when everything was in the clear. Seattle had some colorful car dealers too (cal Worthington) who ran some tacky ads.)
Your explanation of TV video broadcast standards somehow reminded me of the Spanish Inquisition... On the retainer clip, its quite a coincidence that Matt (Techmoan) is suffering from exactly the same problem, only on a cassette tape player. I guess they all let go at once. Cheers,
My sharp vc-a25u has a similar problem. Spent 1.5 hours working on it and cant fix it. Came here for help! The brake for the right spindle is activated by the swinging idler, and apparently there isnt nearly enough force to make it work.
The sound subcarrier frequency for PAL I (UK and some other countries) is 6MHz while for PAL B/G is 5.5MHz. There are also PAL N and PAL M, both used in South America, with a 4.5MHz sound subcarrier.
Yes I know. I have a JVC monitor that will tune all 21 systems used throughout the world. I paid about 800 for that monitor in the day. Still works as far as I know. Haven't used it in years but used to use it all the time when transferring tales to pal and secam.
Now I see. Brendan had the same problem with other Disney VHS tapes. I remember one time he ranted about the 1991 French Canadian VHS “Fantasia” and it had the most damaged VHS tape. He had that tape a few times that he got off eBay. He has a few VCR’s, and many of them worked fine like Toshiba, Orion, Sylvania and others. I would give a shoutout to “Brendan’s Movie Corner” for this.
FIRST! 😂. But now I need some serious advice. I'm working on a VHS/DVD combo. Cleaned the mode switch, heads, and greased everything. The unit is working great! Only issue I have is the clock will not change the time. The display works fine, the tape counter works fine, and I can set the clock. But it won't change. The time just stays on whatever it is set to. I'm 1000% puzzled.
Did sharp make good VHS camcorders? As I’ve just brought a sharp VC-C10 vhs camcorder what I’m awaiting delivery on. I’m just wondering if they were good quality and lasted. I got it as the discription says in full working order.
The only vhs camcorder I ever owned was a pvs350 svhs Panasonic. It was a full size unit. Wasn't a very good unit as far as picture quality went. Didn't have it long and upgraded to a ccdv5000 Sony hi8
Super stuff! Truly appreciate your painstaking work. VHS transport has always mystified me. I wonder if this is why my JVC HRD 910 EK started chewing tapes. I have kept it hoping one day to strip it. Maybe this is the exact same fault? Loved that machine, the HiFi stereo quality on it was awesome.
I admire yet question the perseverance of you, though the equitment you work on is what I would deem lower end range or middle range quality wise you actually dedicate yourself to fix them when most would just trash it, why don't you focus on repairing more higher end equitment that deserves this kind of time?
I get what I get. Remember I left the repair business in 2003. I don't do this for a living, and have no interest in getting back into this line of work. I have had several offers by companies wanting me to work for them. I thank them but decline the offer as I am happy in the union job I have now with benefits like 5 weeks paid holidays, medical, dental, pension. I would be crazy to go back into repair. I do this for select clients, and I pick what I want to work on.I don't do this for the money for the repair. I make far more from the advertising that goes with the video than I ever make repairing this crap.
@@lolimoka3654 No problem. I also do it to pass on my knowledge of this vintage equipment. When I was doing this I had training from factory instructors. Many of the old timers are no longer with us. It is through the channel that I try to show off common faults and ways to solve them.
I've taken apart the cassette carriage mechanism on this Sharp mechanism and it was easy to do, this is something I like, unlike the Mitsubishi mechanism that is very similar to this Sharp, that one is hard to take apart. I tried once and it ended up a disaster.
Partially true. I always suggest to digitize, BUT for the most important recordings, keep the original tapes as well. How can you archive the digitized material securely? The only way for this is doing backups regularly, every few years. If you forgot this, good luck to watch your recordings just 5-10 years later. The lifetime of writable optical media is unpredictable. I have some 15 years old DVD-Rs which are fine, but some of them fail within 3-5 years. Either hard drives not really like the idea of sitting in a drawer for years unused (bearings can stuck, heads stuck to the platters, etc). The main problem with archiving on digital media: usually the deterioration is unnoticable, to the point when it suddenly dies completely. The signal deteriorates gradually, but the error correction algoritms hide it from you, you won't notice any quality degradation, but when the error rate crosses the threshold which is too much to be corrected, the content is gone. There is only a quite narrow time window, when you can notice your digital media is dying, it's when the error rate is right on the threshold which the error correction can handle - than you will experience very slow data transfer rates, but if you are lucky, you may do a completely successful backup at this point. If you kept the original tapes, and stored them properly, you can probably play them back for many decades. There might be some quality degradation over time, but a degraded quality recording is better than a lost one. I store my few original (and already digitized) family VHS tapes in ziplock bags, with a few bags of silica gel enclosed, to protect them from moisture induced binder deterioration and mold. So I think trusting digital optical media or hard drives as backups is similar to Russian roulette. And the professionals agree with that: when they scan an old movie from 36mm film in 4K and digitally enhance the quality (color correction, scratch and dropout removal, image stabilizing, etc), finally they shot the result back to film for long term archival. Because film has proven it can be played back for 100+ years if stored properly. There's no such thing in the digital world - maybe pressed optical media will be one example, only time can tell (altough for archival purposes, they should use gold as reflective layer instead of aluminium or silver, because the latter two can be oxidized over time).
@@mrnmrn1 I suggest making backup copies on both a hard drive and solid state memory. I do have DVD r disks I burned in 1995 that still read perfect. I recommend making a backup of optical media at least every 10 years. Even the cheapest of dvd media will last 10 years easily if stored in the dark. Many of my disks are 25 years old and they are fine. I have had bad no name disks that have failed buy most of those were bad when I recorded them. I just did a video about garbage Sony hi8 take you need to watch. They do not last. My tapes were stored properly and all of my Sony tapes have failed. Always keep the source tape even after archive
JAMES AZBELL The problem with keeping analog tapes is that the machines to play them will fail long before the digital copies do. I personally store this stuff on a raided NAS with a backup of mostly off line USB hard drive(s). I have a friend that backs that up to Google Drive ( a digital storage service). Of course the problem with Digital Storage Service is that there is no right of inheritance. The service is canceled upon non-payment of the bill and all data lost. I have recordings of me from as early as 1947. Wilcox Gay Recordio to half track tape to digital. Also my son has digital copies of most of the material.
@@jazbell7 I store everything on bare hard drives. I have a pair of docks so I can copy between drives and make 2 copies of everything important. One drive stored on site, and the other drive off site. Since the drives are not spinning constantly they wil last literally forever, and since I have 2 copies if one were to fail I still have my backup. Hard drives are pretty cheap these days. I picked up a lot of 50 500 gig drives on Ebay for 80.00 and out of the 50 drives only 1 failed a surface test and was dumped.
Sharp was a funny company, they never sold well, the prices were lower but it was not junk. I think they developed the first LCD display. Yes it was when you sold old equipment too. You get married to it more than fixing it,
Oh I know all about sharp. I have an ancient LCD monitor that the clock just rolled over to 50,000 hours of use last week. Use that on my security DVR, and prior to that was on my desktop computer for many users until I got the LG that I have already had to fix the power supply on. They made great CRT TVs too. They were always seen as junk in the market because they were cheap, and got beat up by big box retailers like Krazy Krazy. Sharp was sold as a lost leader to bring people in so they could be baited and switched by slick the salesman. They had some strange looking devices though. Some of the ulgiest camcorders I ever saw were sharp.
Yes agreed, they made ugly, unknown electronics. Poor marketing, and designers but the engineering was top notch. This is from Sharp on the first LCDs made in 1973. They had a north American distribution center first in Canada too. www.sharp-world.com/corporate/info/his/h_company/1973_1975/index.html
I have a 60" Sharp with the funky Quattron panel. It has a fourth yellow subpixel because supposedly that's better than red+green. Don't know how true that is but I see new 4K sets that have worse color, especially for flesh tones. Most importantly, it's 7 years old and it still works fine. Sharp did buy the Elite brand from Pioneer and kept it alive for a few years. I think they still handle service. Those were really good sets.
@@12voltvids Great Sharp CRT TVs? I know a TV repairman who repaired a lot of them, and he says they are overcomplicated, unreliable junk. He said they used class-D amplifiers in their TVs as early as the late '90s, and those early class-D amplifier ICs were very problematic and hard to get. They used the same type for audio amp and vertical output. I have to notice, I never repaired a single Sharp TV (nor done any research about said repairman's claims), probably not because they're not failing, but because they are very rare where I live (I know only one family who had a Sharp CRT). But I got a few scrap chassis from that repairman, and I have to admit, they look very overcomplicated and a pain to repair. Double layer 90% SMD PCB, covered with 64...100+ pins PLCC and QFP packages, made in about 1995. Surely amazing technology for the time, but ease of repair was the last regard for its engineers.
Well, there was PAL B/G/D/K/I, M, N, L, and π, SECAM B/G/D/K, L, H, K, and M, and NTSC M, N, J, and Ə (which was normal NTSC, but you had to turn your set upside-down.)
I actually had a 6 disc CD Changer in 1988 that did that. I couldn't play anything in the first slot or it would scratch the back of the CD. And it was made by Sharp.... go figure..
Anyone remember those bargain movies from labels like, "Goodtimes Video?" Often some cult or obscure film on an EP- (or sometimes LP-) recorded tape? Oh, and the opening: "adjust tracking for best picture." :D
Given long enough, that plastic will degrade and turn to dust completely. Which will be a problem for the long term preservation of these things for future generations
One word. Archive. Get your video tapes into digital. I should practice what I preach as I have many home tapes just sitting on a shelf fading away slowly
@@12voltvids of course you gotta keep your digital archives apace with current technologies. Was only 15-20 years ago, I had a lot of digital content archived on Iomega Zip discs. haha
Isn't the plastic clip that split common to other Sharp VCRs of the era, or is only found in this rare multi-standard one? You're married to the golden head VCR... Many later European VHS machines had NTSC playback capability. Useful for those imported from Japan anime I often watched.
Finally !!! This video can be viewed without Flash Player . TH-cam dose not need Flash , TH-cam is a Player . Flash Player is for those internet sights . Pain in the ASS .
@@12voltvids Yep if Flash ait running , HML5 will not run ether for Live stream . When I download any vid now it there are 2 of the same , so thats 2 players . I have removed the dead Flash for RAM space . If I re-load it , it sez ...., not enough disc space . there is nothing but space here . I have to weight several days till TH-cam turns it off ! TH-cam is not improving . we have comments not loading . we have no full screen after a watching several vids . vids that are less than 720 p will not go in full screen anymore becouse they keep messing with it . Software morons .
@@750kv8 The commercial was from 68. The vhs I have it on from 84 recorded in EP speed and it is a pre recorded blooper tape. Got some pretty funny stuff on it.
That's an permanent fix, will not fly of again, but something else will :-) BTW the PAL color frequency is 4,43361875 MHz Imagine, that number still sticks in my head 40 years after I learned it...
Yes i know the feeling of being married to something. :-( "You Touched it last." is the short version of what people have said to me. It's never the same fault or area, i have been there a few times. Considering the number of parts in the average vcr, they are quite reliable really.
All EP recordings look bad. Just think if JVC didn't put that speed on to give a much longer recording time betamax likely would have been the dominant format.
Hi Dave, after watching your videos of servicing VCR's. I took up the task for repairing a Sharp VCR VN-6V3NR. Thanks to you, i got it working. Unfortunately I didn't shoot a video but when it worked i felt so great. Thank you once again.
This was a common problem with the Sharp VCRs. I repaired two of them wth the same problem. Good work Dave.
I lived in the Bay Area for over 50 years, and I vaguely remember those old ads.
But must admit I never saw THAT ad - woof!
This one would have been a gag reel i'm pretty sure. When I was doing commercials there were plenty of bloopers and outtakes and sometimes the pitchman while shooting miss reads the cue card, and just goes off script and has some fun.
Here is a link to the original.
th-cam.com/video/vh3Di3LY6Ns/w-d-xo.html
That why I like tube radio they last 50 plus years ,new caps ,maybe new tubes ,then its good for another long time ,then everything that was metal is now plastic.I hope you will fix some old radios,I miss that fix from you ,And we all learn a lot from you ,you been generous with your time.nice save ,they should make vcr,s for people who still want watch there old tapes ,I bought a DVD recorder to copy VHS to dvd,s and I think it worked both ways ,my x has it now .but I think there are some options .
Good job sir your best mechanic...
I love the blooper tape commercial at the end.
Always fun watching your troubleshooting skills
As a kid when these were new, a machine that ate tapes was a death sentence. I can't tell you how many VCRs I brought home with me from trash cans and dumpsters that worked just fine minus something like this. This is back when a new VCR was a couple hundred bucks before DVDs. The ones I couldn't fix I would just take apart and put back together over and over. I still remember the smell of the grease that was inside those units, some of that stuff just would not wash off your hands.
@12voltvids, I always enjoy your VCR repair videos and the sounds of a old VCR. I also learnt a few things about broadcast standards, also really enjoyed the commercial at the end, I wish all car dealers were that honest LOL
Used to love seeing those old car dealer commercials. Many they did live bloopers and all.
Funny thing is I remember that son of a sea crab!!!!He use to advertise in L.A. when I was a kid.!!
There were lots of them. I used to watch many of the LA stations on big dish satellite back when everything was in the clear. Seattle had some colorful car dealers too (cal Worthington) who ran some tacky ads.)
Your explanation of TV video broadcast standards somehow reminded me of the Spanish Inquisition...
On the retainer clip, its quite a coincidence that Matt (Techmoan) is suffering from exactly the same problem, only on a cassette tape player.
I guess they all let go at once.
Cheers,
My sharp vc-a25u has a similar problem. Spent 1.5 hours working on it and cant fix it. Came here for help! The brake for the right spindle is activated by the swinging idler, and apparently there isnt nearly enough force to make it work.
Nice camera work,.It is always a joy to watch these videos.
The sound subcarrier frequency for PAL I (UK and some other countries) is 6MHz while for PAL B/G is 5.5MHz. There are also PAL N and PAL M, both used in South America, with a 4.5MHz sound subcarrier.
Yes I know. I have a JVC monitor that will tune all 21 systems used throughout the world. I paid about 800 for that monitor in the day. Still works as far as I know. Haven't used it in years but used to use it all the time when transferring tales to pal and secam.
Now I see. Brendan had the same problem with other Disney VHS tapes. I remember one time he ranted about the 1991 French Canadian VHS “Fantasia” and it had the most damaged VHS tape. He had that tape a few times that he got off eBay. He has a few VCR’s, and many of them worked fine like Toshiba, Orion, Sylvania and others. I would give a shoutout to “Brendan’s Movie Corner” for this.
FIRST! 😂. But now I need some serious advice. I'm working on a VHS/DVD combo. Cleaned the mode switch, heads, and greased everything. The unit is working great! Only issue I have is the clock will not change the time. The display works fine, the tape counter works fine, and I can set the clock. But it won't change. The time just stays on whatever it is set to. I'm 1000% puzzled.
They used to sell packs of those assorted split Mylar washers at the part stores.
the poor thing is just hungry...
So, you didn't find any of the vintage Sharp VCRs reliable, from your repair experience?
Did sharp make good VHS camcorders? As I’ve just brought a sharp VC-C10 vhs camcorder what I’m awaiting delivery on. I’m just wondering if they were good quality and lasted. I got it as the discription says in full working order.
The only vhs camcorder I ever owned was a pvs350 svhs Panasonic. It was a full size unit. Wasn't a very good unit as far as picture quality went. Didn't have it long and upgraded to a ccdv5000 Sony hi8
Got to love those old ads I wonder if the dog came with the car.
He used to say "the dog is not for sale" on his ads.
Awesome VHS products man, and keep up the good work.
What is it with VHS machines that brings everyone out of the woodwork.
@@12voltvids Because even though we now have 4k bluray,we still love VHS!
@@Gljin40509 Just to watch the reels turning with the cover off.
Super stuff! Truly appreciate your painstaking work. VHS transport has always mystified me. I wonder if this is why my JVC HRD 910 EK started chewing tapes. I have kept it hoping one day to strip it. Maybe this is the exact same fault? Loved that machine, the HiFi stereo quality on it was awesome.
7:50 that wasn't a shake that was an earthquake 😂😂😂😂
I admire yet question the perseverance of you, though the equitment you work on is what I would deem lower end range or middle range quality wise you actually dedicate yourself to fix them when most would just trash it, why don't you focus on repairing more higher end equitment that deserves this kind of time?
I get what I get. Remember I left the repair business in 2003. I don't do this for a living, and have no interest in getting back into this line of work. I have had several offers by companies wanting me to work for them. I thank them but decline the offer as I am happy in the union job I have now with benefits like 5 weeks paid holidays, medical, dental, pension. I would be crazy to go back into repair. I do this for select clients, and I pick what I want to work on.I don't do this for the money for the repair. I make far more from the advertising that goes with the video than I ever make repairing this crap.
@@12voltvids it makes sense now, thanks
@@lolimoka3654
No problem. I also do it to pass on my knowledge of this vintage equipment. When I was doing this I had training from factory instructors. Many of the old timers are no longer with us. It is through the channel that I try to show off common faults and ways to solve them.
Because people like there stuff and get use to it and just want it back .working
@@nor4277 has old tapes that they want to play. This one plays European tapes.
I've taken apart the cassette carriage mechanism on this Sharp mechanism and it was easy to do, this is something I like, unlike the Mitsubishi mechanism that is very similar to this Sharp, that one is hard to take apart. I tried once and it ended up a disaster.
I have a Sharp VC-H985 doing the same thing (eating tapes upon eject) could it be the same solution ?
Awesome tape at the end!
I would recommend that you tell the customer to digitize his VHS tapes soon or else lose them forever.
He uses this to play his European tapes but you are right. Tapes do deteriorate , I keep busy digitizing tapes. Just had a dozen 8mm come in today.
Partially true. I always suggest to digitize, BUT for the most important recordings, keep the original tapes as well. How can you archive the digitized material securely? The only way for this is doing backups regularly, every few years. If you forgot this, good luck to watch your recordings just 5-10 years later. The lifetime of writable optical media is unpredictable. I have some 15 years old DVD-Rs which are fine, but some of them fail within 3-5 years. Either hard drives not really like the idea of sitting in a drawer for years unused (bearings can stuck, heads stuck to the platters, etc).
The main problem with archiving on digital media: usually the deterioration is unnoticable, to the point when it suddenly dies completely. The signal deteriorates gradually, but the error correction algoritms hide it from you, you won't notice any quality degradation, but when the error rate crosses the threshold which is too much to be corrected, the content is gone. There is only a quite narrow time window, when you can notice your digital media is dying, it's when the error rate is right on the threshold which the error correction can handle - than you will experience very slow data transfer rates, but if you are lucky, you may do a completely successful backup at this point.
If you kept the original tapes, and stored them properly, you can probably play them back for many decades. There might be some quality degradation over time, but a degraded quality recording is better than a lost one. I store my few original (and already digitized) family VHS tapes in ziplock bags, with a few bags of silica gel enclosed, to protect them from moisture induced binder deterioration and mold.
So I think trusting digital optical media or hard drives as backups is similar to Russian roulette. And the professionals agree with that: when they scan an old movie from 36mm film in 4K and digitally enhance the quality (color correction, scratch and dropout removal, image stabilizing, etc), finally they shot the result back to film for long term archival. Because film has proven it can be played back for 100+ years if stored properly. There's no such thing in the digital world - maybe pressed optical media will be one example, only time can tell (altough for archival purposes, they should use gold as reflective layer instead of aluminium or silver, because the latter two can be oxidized over time).
@@mrnmrn1
I suggest making backup copies on both a hard drive and solid state memory. I do have DVD r disks I burned in 1995 that still read perfect. I recommend making a backup of optical media at least every 10 years. Even the cheapest of dvd media will last 10 years easily if stored in the dark. Many of my disks are 25 years old and they are fine. I have had bad no name disks that have failed buy most of those were bad when I recorded them. I just did a video about garbage Sony hi8 take you need to watch. They do not last. My tapes were stored properly and all of my Sony tapes have failed. Always keep the source tape even after archive
JAMES AZBELL The problem with keeping analog tapes is that the machines to play them will fail long before the digital copies do. I personally store this stuff on a raided NAS with a backup of mostly off line USB hard drive(s). I have a friend that backs that up to Google Drive ( a digital storage service). Of course the problem with Digital Storage Service is that there is no right of inheritance. The service is canceled upon non-payment of the bill and all data lost. I have recordings of me from as early as 1947. Wilcox Gay Recordio to half track tape to digital. Also my son has digital copies of most of the material.
@@jazbell7 I store everything on bare hard drives. I have a pair of docks so I can copy between drives and make 2 copies of everything important. One drive stored on site, and the other drive off site. Since the drives are not spinning constantly they wil last literally forever, and since I have 2 copies if one were to fail I still have my backup. Hard drives are pretty cheap these days. I picked up a lot of 50 500 gig drives on Ebay for 80.00 and out of the 50 drives only 1 failed a surface test and was dumped.
Sharp was a funny company, they never sold well, the prices were lower but it was not junk. I think they developed the first LCD display. Yes it was when you sold old equipment too. You get married to it more than fixing it,
Oh I know all about sharp. I have an ancient LCD monitor that the clock just rolled over to 50,000 hours of use last week. Use that on my security DVR, and prior to that was on my desktop computer for many users until I got the LG that I have already had to fix the power supply on. They made great CRT TVs too.
They were always seen as junk in the market because they were cheap, and got beat up by big box retailers like Krazy Krazy. Sharp was sold as a lost leader to bring people in so they could be baited and switched by slick the salesman. They had some strange looking devices though. Some of the ulgiest camcorders I ever saw were sharp.
Yes agreed, they made ugly, unknown electronics. Poor marketing, and designers but the engineering was top notch. This is from Sharp on the first LCDs made in 1973. They had a north American distribution center first in Canada too. www.sharp-world.com/corporate/info/his/h_company/1973_1975/index.html
I have a 60" Sharp with the funky Quattron panel. It has a fourth yellow subpixel because supposedly that's better than red+green. Don't know how true that is but I see new 4K sets that have worse color, especially for flesh tones.
Most importantly, it's 7 years old and it still works fine.
Sharp did buy the Elite brand from Pioneer and kept it alive for a few years. I think they still handle service. Those were really good sets.
@@12voltvids Great Sharp CRT TVs? I know a TV repairman who repaired a lot of them, and he says they are overcomplicated, unreliable junk. He said they used class-D amplifiers in their TVs as early as the late '90s, and those early class-D amplifier ICs were very problematic and hard to get. They used the same type for audio amp and vertical output.
I have to notice, I never repaired a single Sharp TV (nor done any research about said repairman's claims), probably not because they're not failing, but because they are very rare where I live (I know only one family who had a Sharp CRT). But I got a few scrap chassis from that repairman, and I have to admit, they look very overcomplicated and a pain to repair. Double layer 90% SMD PCB, covered with 64...100+ pins PLCC and QFP packages, made in about 1995. Surely amazing technology for the time, but ease of repair was the last regard for its engineers.
@@mrnmrn1
Oh I used to hate repairing them, as they were a pita when they broke, but when they worked they had a great picture.
Well, there was PAL B/G/D/K/I, M, N, L, and π, SECAM B/G/D/K, L, H, K, and M, and NTSC M, N, J, and Ə (which was normal NTSC, but you had to turn your set upside-down.)
Imagine if DVD Players would Eat the Back of the Disc then Make it Scratched up!
I actually had a 6 disc CD Changer in 1988 that did that. I couldn't play anything in the first slot or it would scratch the back of the CD. And it was made by Sharp.... go figure..
Anyone remember those bargain movies from labels like, "Goodtimes Video?" Often some cult or obscure film on an EP- (or sometimes LP-) recorded tape? Oh, and the opening: "adjust tracking for best picture." :D
They were horrible.
Given long enough, that plastic will degrade and turn to dust completely. Which will be a problem for the long term preservation of these things for future generations
One word. Archive.
Get your video tapes into digital. I should practice what I preach as I have many home tapes just sitting on a shelf fading away slowly
@@12voltvids of course you gotta keep your digital archives apace with current technologies. Was only 15-20 years ago, I had a lot of digital content archived on Iomega Zip discs. haha
Isn't the plastic clip that split common to other Sharp VCRs of the era, or is only found in this rare multi-standard one?
You're married to the golden head VCR...
Many later European VHS machines had NTSC playback capability. Useful for those imported from Japan anime I often watched.
It was used in others but these are all getting scarce now.
vcrs are complex, compared to CD players and DVD what do you think?
Duh, they are much more mechanical, and more things can go wrong with them.
12voltvids thanks just wondering your thoughts
Experienced hands !
Finally !!! This video can be viewed without Flash Player .
TH-cam dose not need Flash , TH-cam is a Player .
Flash Player is for those internet sights .
Pain in the ASS .
I didn't think yt supported flash anymore.
Flash is required for many security cameras such as those on alarm.com
@@12voltvids Yep if Flash ait running , HML5 will not run ether for Live stream .
When I download any vid now it there are 2 of the same , so thats 2 players .
I have removed the dead Flash for RAM space .
If I re-load it , it sez ...., not enough disc space . there is nothing but space here .
I have to weight several days till TH-cam turns it off !
TH-cam is not improving .
we have comments not loading .
we have no full screen after a watching several vids .
vids that are less than 720 p will not go in full screen anymore becouse they keep messing with it .
Software morons .
20:44 - Did he say the f-word right there? LOL! Wow! That's some horrible quality playback! From way back in the 80's I assume, looking at those cars.
Try for 1968! And yes he did from an f bomb/
@@12voltvids - Okay, that's... wait, VHS didn't exist in '68 yet!
@@750kv8
The commercial was from 68. The vhs I have it on from 84 recorded in EP speed and it is a pre recorded blooper tape. Got some pretty funny stuff on it.
That's an permanent fix, will not fly of again, but something else will :-)
BTW the PAL color frequency is 4,43361875 MHz
Imagine, that number still sticks in my head 40 years after I learned it...
Yes and ntsc 4.43 used the same. That was an odd duck format to allow ntsc tapes to play on pal TV's.
That clip reminds me of Big Bill Hell's Baltimore
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Yes i know the feeling of being married to something. :-(
"You Touched it last." is the short version of what people have said to me.
It's never the same fault or area, i have been there a few times.
Considering the number of parts in the average vcr, they are quite reliable really.
I know all about that. She is next to me and has been since 1982
Bloody hell!!, i would have thought she needs a bath by now :)
That EP recording is terrible, colours look washed out and picture is crap.
All EP recordings look bad. Just think if JVC didn't put that speed on to give a much longer recording time betamax likely would have been the dominant format.