Who Has Beta?

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by MX70

My Betas:
Sony SL2710B (daily driver),SL-2000 portable, SLO-260 industrial (works perfect!), SL-100 superbeta (I'm the original owner), Sanyo VCR-7300 beta hifi portable, Sanyo VTC-9100A (still working) and a parts unit SL2710 for my working 2710B. And that's just the betas!

Don't even ask me how many VCR's I have! Lost count, a while ago.
At the Wisconsin swap meet, a Sanyo Beta, marked freebee, was the only one taken. It seemed to be complete and in decent shape.

[MIPS]

I have three.
One is the SL-2700B and it ran perfectly fine and had an MPX decoder but then one day the plastic loading arm gear shattered and it's been sitting on a shelf ever since.
There's also an SL-HF900 but it has power supply issues and I have no idea how to service stuff like that.

The only other deck I have is an SL-2000. I ended up paying $30 to rebuild the battery pack and adding in an A/V out jack to the back near the multi-connector but it became a real workhorse. I used it and an HVC-2800 to make this a month or so ago for another project.

[pac.attack76]

I have a Sony SL-HF900 with manual and remote. Only one movie: (Tron)

[Dave A]

Tron! Lora/Yori (Cindy Morgan) is an old friend from her first tv job as a weathergirl at my station in Rockford, IL. 1973. You do the math. Unrepentant diva even then. Now back to our regularly scheduled thread.

[centralradio]

I have the Sony SL-HF750 and a NEC beta HiFi "I cant recall the model number " betamax too.

I payed $990 bucks for the Sony back in 1988 from a electronics mail order outfit.

The NEC I got free.

I used the SL-HF750 daily up to the late 1990's until the beta tapes source dried up here .I must have about 700 plus beta tapes recorded.

[ChrisW6ATV]

I recently restored a Sony SL-8200 (1977 model, Sony's first with the BII speed) to good working condition. Now, I need to pull out some of my old tapes of TV shows recorded in 1979-1990 or so and watch them.

[EdKozk2]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Don't even ask me how many VCR's I have! Lost count, a while ago.
At the Wisconsin swap meet, a Sanyo Beta, marked freebee, was the only one taken. It seemed to be complete and in decent shape.

Thanks Dieseljeep,
Now I know who gave my son the Sanyo VCR4020 Betacord. The vcr needs new belts and idler tires. The originals were cracked or broken.
I ordered new belts then realized I forgot to check the idler tires. Tires are on order now. The vcr powered up ok.
I ended up buying a belt set for my Quasar VH5042XQ vcr and Sony TC-248D Eight Track Player at the same time. The 8-track works fine just had to remove the 30-40 year old gooey rubber belt off the pulleys.
My son has been finding old Beta tapes a our local Goodwill, along with VHS
tapes also.
I hope to have the Sanyo working by the end of this week.
Ed

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by EdKozk2

Thanks Dieseljeep,
Now I know who gave my son the Sanyo VCR4020 Betachord. The vcr needs new belts and idler tires. The originals were cracked or broken.
I ordered new belts then realized I forgot to check the idler tires. Tires are on order now. The vcr powered up ok.
I ended up buying a belt set for my Quasar VH5042XQ vcr and Sony TC-248D Eight Track Player at the same time. The 8-track works fine just had to remove the 30-40 year old gooey rubber belt off the pulleys.
My son has been finding old Beta tapes a our local Goodwill, along with VHS
tapes also.
I hope to have the Sanyo working by the end of this week.
Ed

My niece's B/F asked me if I would want two VCR's, a Beta and a VHS.
I mentioned that, there's renewed interest in Beta's. He was talking about taking them to Best-Buy for recycling.
I'm glad, it was a win-win situation for all.
BTW, where did you get your replacement belts? Studio Sound?

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

I recently restored a Sony SL-8200 (1977 model, Sony's first with the BII speed) to good working condition. Now, I need to pull out some of my old tapes of TV shows recorded in 1979-1990 or so and watch them.

I didn't realize Sony Beta's were around that long!
I bought my first VCR in early 1982, after they came down to slightly under $600 . VHS tapes were $12 to $14 each.

[EdKozk2]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

My niece's B/F asked me if I would want two VCR's, a Beta and a VHS.
I mentioned that, there's renewed interest in Beta's. He was talking about taking them to Best-Buy for recycling.
I'm glad, it was a win-win situation for all.
BTW, where did you get your replacement belts? Studio Sound?

I bought the first order from Studio Sound in Ind. and have the tires on order from SMC in Mass.
SMC had a better look-up table/listing for the tires IMO, since I didn't know the exact specs. It's hard to measure old and worn belts and idler tires exactly.
Ed

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I didn't realize Sony Beta's were around that long!

Sony made and sold Beta VCRs in Japan until late 2002, but they were last sold in the USA in the mid-1990s, I think.

[EdKozk2]

My son and I got the Sanyo Betacord VCR4020 back together, new belts and head cleaning. The vcr works fairly well. The coarse tracking control is a little touchy, but not too bad. We tried different old beta tapes from the mid-eighties, some played better than others depending on prior usage.
I had to re-clean the head after it picked up some dirt from one tape, Star Wars . One barely used tape of Gallagher the comedian played back the best.

[Dude111]

Im glad ya got her going buddy

ANALOG IS A TRULY WONDERFUL PLATFORM... VHS,BETA and VIDEODISC are quite good in my opinion!!

[ceebee23]

My first VCR was a Philips N1500 in 1975 ..I still have part of the 1976 Olympics recorded by it. Max running time per tape 60mins ...
VHS in 1978 and Beta ...Sanyo 9300 (PAL model fo the 9100)..recorded the 1980 Olympics ..the ones in Moscow...with it! N1500 is now with another collector for restoration Sanyo still running ... stll working perfectly.

[Dude111]

Wow that was recorded off analogue TV -- I would love watching those!!