At the beginning of 2000 I had a VR2340: image noise. A few years later I got a 2350 Matchline: noise image, same as 2340. At the same time I got a 2024 stereo with an infrared sensor, but it didn't work. I took it to a professional who repaired it and wow, the device was from another universe. The device was barely audible during operation and the image quality was better than I've ever seen from anyone else. I had several Grundig 2x4 880s, two 2340s, and a 2350, but the VR2024 delivered the best picture by far. No image disturbances when switching to picture search or pause, whisper quiet and tape forward could only be heard in dead silence. The 2350 looks great and the remote control is top, but the picture quality is not the best. Last week I bought a new, unused Grundig 2280 2x8 stereo in the original packaging! oh man, what a find! plug into the socket: magic smoke from the wima 0.1uF capacitor...
Watching the v2000 videos on the channel brings back many good memories of our home v2000 machine we had at home in the 1980's and really liked it. That and the Philips TV with Teletext (ceefsx in UK, but I grew up in the Netherlands) was a good mix. Txt TV came in 1982 and later another one with 200 page memory so no waiting for a specific page. Dutch Teletext was very good compared to comparable services in other countries: more pages, faster (as it used 2x or maybe even 4x as many off-screen lines compared to Ceefax).... Good good memories 😊
I've had a few VR2324 vcr's great machines when they work, one of them behaved exactly like this from cold, it was (as usual) caused by the Blue Philips axial capacitors in the power supply, over time they lose capacitance and go high esr which from cold stresses the psu (which can cause other annoying problems) and you get wierd intermittent operation, while it may improve the longer its powered up, if you leave it off for a week then power it up again your back to square one. PS the above caps can cause havoc with the dynamic tracking too & its a right old faff replacing them, Keep up the good work :)
All right. I liked the previous video, because I had 3 or 4 of these back in the day (not all at once). And now after an other video I saw a screenshot with this recorder in it, not knowing this was a new one. So when this video started with you saying ‘…you know this broke down on me.’ I sad ‘yes’ out loud. 😄 Because of owning (and repairing) quite a few of the video 2000 systems I still love seeing video’s like yours about it. Very informative. By the way, I loved your video’s about the fiber FttP stuff a lot. Also you visiting at that place where everything needed for a fiber installation was laid out. Those guys were very open about every detail of the process. And that guy talking to your son (?) about the latency. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this video. 😎 Keep up the great content… and I’ll keep watching. Maybe even become a patron or something… Greetings from ‘the other side of the pond’ the Netherlands. 🙂
@@video99coukWell okay, you talked me in to it.😉 Also, I am a patron already for a few channels, so I know how it works. And since 3 minutes ago also of this channel. Keep up the great content. 👍 Greetings from Jeroen. (In English pronounced as Juroon). 😎
Good work Colin clean the transistor so it work again its same on my VCR 60 Bang olufson click sound i Also clean the transistor so its Running fine now.
I haven't seen those universal remotes in Poundland for a few years now. I wish I'd bought a few of them while they were still selling them. The one I did buy I've managed to lose.
Just found your channel and oh boy does this take me back ! I had a few of the 2020 and 2022 models back in the 80's and 90's and I loved them despite the occasional quirk that would leave me scratching my head 🤔 I'm not familiar with the other 2000 system models so I have to ask which one do you think was the best of the bunch as I'm thinking about acquiring a new weekend project and you definitely know more about these systems than I do, thanks in anticipation and keep up the good work 👍
No V2000 machine is reliable. I have a slight preference for the Grundig 2x4 Super over some other models, because it's slightly more fixable than some. But they are all a pain.
It's almost certain that the power failure was caused by a connector from a power regulator. These connectors are underrated, a reliable fix is to solder the wires. Another issue is the unnecessary Rifa filter capacitor in the black box near the power inlet, this capacitor will finally explode if not removed. The solder joint of the inlet connector is a weak point. Under the tape mechanism is a command encoder with contact brushes, the mechanism will not work reliable when they are contaminated. The 2324 is internally identical with the 2334. Only some buttons and the infrared receiver are missing. A interesting project is to add SAA3028P, some components and an infrared receiver. All play functions, including the real time counter and 'goto' can be selected with a compatible remote control.
Yeah, your comment made me remember that I had identical looking machines but one had more knobs. Several for going slowly forward at different speeds or just one step. Also there was one that was in two halves. You could disconnect the two and connect a camera to the right half and with a battery and shoulder strap it was portable… sort of.. You wouldn’t want to walk around with that thing for too long. 😄
I will now throw out the 2024 , it kills my time and nerves. Meanwhile it shows some sort of life ... after many times of ac on/off, the clock blinks and the counter shows up, the eject works and it can FWD/RWND. But no Play, there it gets crazy again. I think I will look for a later model like this 2324 or similar. If shipping to UK wouldn't be so expensive, I would offer the 2024 to you for parts...
No V2000 machine is reliable. Until I got the VR2324, my favourite was the Grundig 2x4 Super, but I'm going off that model due to poor back tension control towards the last few minutes of some tapes. The VR2024 may be repairable, but it really helps to have a spares machine so you can test panels to try to narrow down the fault finding.
@@video99couk yes that is my biggest issue having no parts to swap between the machines. That would make things so much easier ;) But I give up now, it consumes too much time and makes me unhappy having it but doesn't work. And looking for machines in the web they ask too much money for it. Specialy because they have their problem it makes no sense to me spending hundreds or Euros for another machine. I will be patient andy wait. If some day a machine for a reasonable price pops up or I "fall over" one, then it is time to go on here ;)
@@video99couk Oowyeah Grundig! I’ve had a few of those. 👍 Last one was a frontloading machine and I think it even was stereo. Reliability back in the day was pretty good. At least with the ones I owned. Had a LOT more trouble with VHS machines back in the day. The ‘broken’ v2000’s I got for free, I usually only had to clean the tape path and the heads. (Yes, really!) 🙂 And sometimes a tiny tiny drop of oil here and there in the mechanism where it was a bit stiff, and made a noise like it was struggling to work. 🙂 I could just listen to those machines and tell what was wrong before even opening them up. 😁 I heard a couple of familiar sounds with one of your machines. 😄 By the way, you also kind of solved an old mystery (old as in somewhere in the early ‘90’s) as to what was wrong with a machine with an intermittent error, that I could not fix back then. I wasn’t experienced at all when I started to ‘repair’ videorecorders. If it was mechanical, which it was a lot, I could repair that. The electrical part not so much. Or it had to be something very obvious. I learned all that later. Obvious like in, ‘Geeez, what’s this, you dropped this machine, or what?’ ‘Drop it? Noooo, of course not!’ And YES, he did drop it and something got unplugged. Or something, it’s all a bunch of very vage memory’s these days. 😄 (But it did look very familiar tho when you opened the machine up.) 👍
@@video99couk Question: Did Grundig have a recorder that looked like the second one in this video? Or is that just my own scrambled memory? Also, those things were not very light. Very heavy even. 😃 Some as heavy as an old tv.
@@video99couk VHS machines were also cheaper to repair, since parts cost less. Whether this was a natural consequence of the technology, or a cunning move by the manufacturers is unknown, though it is hard to see why VHS parts should be inherantly cheaper than Beta. Whatever the reason, this was another incentive to buy VHS - and another to avoid V2000, which as time went on gained a reputation for unreliability. One survey (in Which magazine) found that 59% of V2000 machines had been returned for repair, compared with around 25% for the other two formats. From Total Rewind.
I often do that where it's possible. Other thumbnails include the Sanyo VTC5150 and Philips N1700. th-cam.com/video/VHT3QJ-r2w0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/04FEiwxq5eA/w-d-xo.html Most people probably don't notice, so well done.
At the beginning of 2000 I had a VR2340: image noise. A few years later I got a 2350 Matchline: noise image, same as 2340.
At the same time I got a 2024 stereo with an infrared sensor, but it didn't work.
I took it to a professional who repaired it and wow, the device was from another universe.
The device was barely audible during operation and the image quality was better than I've ever seen from anyone else.
I had several Grundig 2x4 880s, two 2340s, and a 2350, but the VR2024 delivered the best picture by far. No image disturbances when switching to picture search or pause, whisper quiet and tape forward could only be heard in dead silence.
The 2350 looks great and the remote control is top, but the picture quality is not the best.
Last week I bought a new, unused Grundig 2280 2x8 stereo in the original packaging!
oh man, what a find!
plug into the socket: magic smoke from the wima 0.1uF capacitor...
We had a V2000 machine many years ago. I loved the clunking noises it made when you pressed the buttons.
Watching the v2000 videos on the channel brings back many good memories of our home v2000 machine we had at home in the 1980's and really liked it.
That and the Philips TV with Teletext (ceefsx in UK, but I grew up in the Netherlands) was a good mix. Txt TV came in 1982 and later another one with 200 page memory so no waiting for a specific page. Dutch Teletext was very good compared to comparable services in other countries: more pages, faster (as it used 2x or maybe even 4x as many off-screen lines compared to Ceefax).... Good good memories 😊
I remember the first time I saw Teletext, it looked like science fiction. Later Fastext TVs were certainly better.
V2000 machines work by means of a probability drive.
Thanks for the interesting videos.
And the probability of any given V2000 machine working, is very low.
"It would look as good as it works" :)
Another great video. I’m hoping to get my VHS tapes sent to you soon :)
I've had a few VR2324 vcr's great machines when they work, one of them behaved exactly like this from cold, it was (as usual) caused by the Blue Philips axial capacitors in the power supply, over time they lose capacitance and go high esr which from cold stresses the psu (which can cause other annoying problems) and you get wierd intermittent operation, while it may improve the longer its powered up, if you leave it off for a week then power it up again your back to square one. PS the above caps can cause havoc with the dynamic tracking too & its a right old faff replacing them, Keep up the good work :)
All right. I liked the previous video, because I had 3 or 4 of these back in the day (not all at once). And now after an other video I saw a screenshot with this recorder in it, not knowing this was a new one. So when this video started with you saying ‘…you know this broke down on me.’ I sad ‘yes’ out loud. 😄 Because of owning (and repairing) quite a few of the video 2000 systems I still love seeing video’s like yours about it. Very informative. By the way, I loved your video’s about the fiber FttP stuff a lot. Also you visiting at that place where everything needed for a fiber installation was laid out. Those guys were very open about every detail of the process. And that guy talking to your son (?) about the latency. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this video. 😎 Keep up the great content… and I’ll keep watching. Maybe even become a patron or something… Greetings from ‘the other side of the pond’ the Netherlands. 🙂
Patrons often get to see videos early and occasionally bonus material.
@@video99coukWell okay, you talked me in to it.😉 Also, I am a patron already for a few channels, so I know how it works. And since 3 minutes ago also of this channel. Keep up the great content. 👍 Greetings from Jeroen. (In English pronounced as Juroon). 😎
Good work Colin clean the transistor so it work again its same on my VCR 60 Bang olufson click sound i Also clean the transistor so its Running fine now.
Thanks Colin great video.
Video 2000 has a frequency deviation of 1.35 MHz, but no video noise reduction.
I haven't seen those universal remotes in Poundland for a few years now. I wish I'd bought a few of them while they were still selling them. The one I did buy I've managed to lose.
Just found your channel and oh boy does this take me back ! I had a few of the 2020 and 2022 models back in the 80's and 90's and I loved them despite the occasional quirk that would leave me scratching my head 🤔 I'm not familiar with the other 2000 system models so I have to ask which one do you think was the best of the bunch as I'm thinking about acquiring a new weekend project and you definitely know more about these systems than I do, thanks in anticipation and keep up the good work 👍
No V2000 machine is reliable. I have a slight preference for the Grundig 2x4 Super over some other models, because it's slightly more fixable than some. But they are all a pain.
It was very interesting.😊
It's almost certain that the power failure was caused by a connector from a power regulator. These connectors are underrated, a reliable fix is to solder the wires.
Another issue is the unnecessary Rifa filter capacitor in the black box near the power inlet, this capacitor will finally explode if not removed. The solder joint of the inlet connector is a weak point. Under the tape mechanism is a command encoder with contact brushes, the mechanism will not work reliable when they are contaminated.
The 2324 is internally identical with the 2334. Only some buttons and the infrared receiver are missing. A interesting project is to add SAA3028P, some components and an infrared receiver. All play functions, including the real time counter and 'goto' can be selected with a compatible remote control.
I would like to add remote control to the 2334, let me know if you have any wiring information on that modification: colin@video99.co.uk
Yeah, your comment made me remember that I had identical looking machines but one had more knobs. Several for going slowly forward at different speeds or just one step. Also there was one that was in two halves. You could disconnect the two and connect a camera to the right half and with a battery and shoulder strap it was portable… sort of.. You wouldn’t want to walk around with that thing for too long. 😄
There was even a VHS recorder with the same housing…
I will now throw out the 2024 , it kills my time and nerves.
Meanwhile it shows some sort of life ... after many times of ac on/off, the clock blinks and the counter shows up, the eject works and it can FWD/RWND. But no Play, there it gets crazy again.
I think I will look for a later model like this 2324 or similar.
If shipping to UK wouldn't be so expensive, I would offer the 2024 to you for parts...
No V2000 machine is reliable. Until I got the VR2324, my favourite was the Grundig 2x4 Super, but I'm going off that model due to poor back tension control towards the last few minutes of some tapes. The VR2024 may be repairable, but it really helps to have a spares machine so you can test panels to try to narrow down the fault finding.
@@video99couk yes that is my biggest issue having no parts to swap between the machines.
That would make things so much easier ;)
But I give up now, it consumes too much time and makes me unhappy having it but doesn't work.
And looking for machines in the web they ask too much money for it. Specialy because they have their problem it makes no sense to me spending hundreds or Euros for another machine.
I will be patient andy wait. If some day a machine for a reasonable price pops up or I "fall over" one, then it is time to go on here ;)
@@video99couk Oowyeah Grundig! I’ve had a few of those. 👍 Last one was a frontloading machine and I think it even was stereo. Reliability back in the day was pretty good. At least with the ones I owned. Had a LOT more trouble with VHS machines back in the day. The ‘broken’ v2000’s I got for free, I usually only had to clean the tape path and the heads. (Yes, really!) 🙂 And sometimes a tiny tiny drop of oil here and there in the mechanism where it was a bit stiff, and made a noise like it was struggling to work. 🙂 I could just listen to those machines and tell what was wrong before even opening them up. 😁 I heard a couple of familiar sounds with one of your machines. 😄 By the way, you also kind of solved an old mystery (old as in somewhere in the early ‘90’s) as to what was wrong with a machine with an intermittent error, that I could not fix back then. I wasn’t experienced at all when I started to ‘repair’ videorecorders. If it was mechanical, which it was a lot, I could repair that. The electrical part not so much. Or it had to be something very obvious. I learned all that later. Obvious like in, ‘Geeez, what’s this, you dropped this machine, or what?’ ‘Drop it? Noooo, of course not!’ And YES, he did drop it and something got unplugged. Or something, it’s all a bunch of very vage memory’s these days. 😄 (But it did look very familiar tho when you opened the machine up.) 👍
@@video99couk Question: Did Grundig have a recorder that looked like the second one in this video? Or is that just my own scrambled memory? Also, those things were not very light. Very heavy even. 😃 Some as heavy as an old tv.
@@video99couk VHS machines were also cheaper to repair, since parts cost less. Whether this was a natural consequence of the technology, or a cunning move by the manufacturers is unknown, though it is hard to see why VHS parts should be inherantly cheaper than Beta. Whatever the reason, this was another incentive to buy VHS - and another to avoid V2000, which as time went on gained a reputation for unreliability. One survey (in Which magazine) found that 59% of V2000 machines had been returned for repair, compared with around 25% for the other two formats. From Total Rewind.
I have an 2022s who's also shut down occasionally without obvious reason. I still didn't found the cause.
I had that years ago on a VR2023 and traced it to a bad relay contact on the PCB under the deck.
freezed frammed at 25:30 you leave your address in full view, thought you should know
Thanks, fixing that now. The address is quite easy to look up anyway, but it's bad practice to have it in the TH-cam video, I agree.
❤️💚👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
Did you set the displays to show model numbers for the thumbnail? Nice attention to detail :)
I often do that where it's possible. Other thumbnails include the Sanyo VTC5150 and Philips N1700.
th-cam.com/video/VHT3QJ-r2w0/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/04FEiwxq5eA/w-d-xo.html
Most people probably don't notice, so well done.
WoW, your sharp man. 👌 I never noticed that. That certainly IS nice attention to detail. 👍