I can't believe somebody just gave you one of those. A premiere workhorse, all around fantastic machine. Even obsolete as it is, it's still valuable.

Greetings: Before retiring, I used to service these. I still have 2 slip-ring assys (sr-13) for both DVW-A500 & A500P for sale.

I regularly used one of these and an hdcam machine for E-Cinema presentations.Very nice machines.

Back in the summer of 1981, only 18 at the time, I bought a Sony C7 Betamax, that machine cost me £715, which would be around £2500 to £3000 today. Back then nothing was close to the picture quality of the recordings, and believe or not one of the first home VCR's to have colour picture search and slow motion playback, by the time the C9 with (HiFi Stereo) came out some 3 or 4 years later, getting rental films in Beta was quite difficult, so I didn't see the point in upgrading to the new model. Around 1987/88 the C7 finally gave up and was replaced be a VHS Panasonic. However, I still felt even after all that time and improvements to the VHS system the original C7 offered better picture quality recordings. Thanks for this insight into the world of build quality video tape recorders rarely seen....

@video99couk

9 күн бұрын

The C7 was advanced for its day, if a little unreliable. That is due to get a mention in the KZread video that I will release later this week as it happens. The C9 though didn't have hi-fi stereo, only lousy linear stereo, so it wouldn't have been worth the upgrade to that anyway. Few Beta HiFi machines sold in the UK had trick functions like the C9 or (to a more limited level) the C7.

I used to use this model on a daily basis as an online editor and VT op. These cost around £25K back in the day. I remember when these things were introduced in the early 90s. I think it was '94 when I first used this machine. Before that I was operating D1, D2 and D3 for BBC destined work and later D5, HDCAM, HDCAM SR and Ampex DCT. I also worked with Umatic, Beta SP, 1"C, 1"B, DASH and Ampex 2" Quad. All good fun.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

I only wish I had so much experience with studio equipment. I'm still trying to buy an HDCAM-SR but they are stubbornly expensive.

@andrew1479

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk Yeah, Good luck with that. They are still being used by some facilities in Soho. Officially the last tape based format the BBC accepted commisioned programmes on

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

@@andrew1479 There's one for about £900 but with 10k hours on the heads, I don't think it's worth it.

@andrew1479

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk hmmm, I don't know if you know Roger Conway? He is a Broadcast specialist and Roger and I have had a fairly long association. He may be worth having a chat with he is very knowledgable and very friendly. You can mention my name if you like. Here is is his website - www.rogcon.co.uk/

I used to work with these machines on a daily basis once. There were so many options and keys that I created an interactive user manual with Filemaker Pro on the Mac for educational purposes. ALL buttons, in and outputs were explained as well as the menu's. You could lookup on keyword and it would tell you what menu item you needed to go to and what the available options were. Pressing a button would have the same visual effect as pressing it on the real machine. Great fun to create, but it gave my RSI... Too many and too long days creating that I guess. Not a lot was known at that time around RSI and the cause. P.S. I would get rid of the head sponge if I were you. It only increases wear on the heads and if the heads are dirty, you can clean them with some smooth chamois leather and alcohol. (not up and down, only in the direction of tape travel!)

If you find the flashing STOP key light annoying, you can turn the flashing off with a menu setting. From what I remember it flashes the green STOP key when the machine senses the absence of external sync, which is immaterial on a standalone player anyway.

hearing the buttons. so great. the work so great and have such a special feel.

Great video. On the DVW machines, if you hold the ENTRY button whilst pressing the MENU button, it will bring up an error log on your monitor with time code stamps of each error. Handy for checking playback or record issues. One other thing, and I’ve noticed this on a few of your machines. If the STOP light is flashing it means your machine does not have a reference signal connected on the back (usually just a black burst signal). If you switch to INT ref (switch) it will stop flashing.

@TomHansonKNVPStudios

Жыл бұрын

Also, to clear the error log (I would usually clear it each time I either record or playback), call up the error log (ENTRY + MENU) and then hit the RESET button alongside the TimeCode display on the machine panel. Enjoy!

In my collection I have a DVW-A500P recorder and a DVW-A510P player, both the rebranded Thomson versions. The recorder I got for 56€, the player for 38€. One can spend great amounts of money on these on Ebay, but with patience, these machines can be gotten for very cheap or even for free like in this video :) Unfortunately I so far haven't had the time to do much with my Digibetas, but this video will be very helpful when I finally have the time. The menu system really seems very unintuitive... The cables for the 9P remote interface are available on Ebay, I got one to connect my Digibetas together. It's quite fascinating how they work together, basic editing operations can be performed via the front panel of the recorder. A friend of mine has a small collection of Betacam equipment too, and he actually prefers the video quality of Betacam SP. Digital Betacam does employ 4:2:2 colour subsampling, and the thereby reduced colour quality apparently is noticeable when compared to analog Betacam SP.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

I've been reliably informed that BetacamSP is nowhere near as good as Digital Betacam. But I know what you mean. There's something very pleasing about the BetacamSP image, even though the resolution isn't especially high. I would say you got your machines very cheap. These things do often still fetch about £200. A freebie of course is even better, but mine really needs a pinch roller.

@derekdexheimer3070

4 ай бұрын

Where and how does one find such machines? I would love to have a DigiBeta machine, especially the A500.

@DrCassette

4 ай бұрын

@@derekdexheimer3070 Ebay is a good option, the trick is to wait until there is an offer by someone who just wants his machine gone quickly, and doesn't care so much for the price. Of course usually these offers are local pickup only. Ignore all the overpriced Buy Now offers by people trying to get rich

worked with this for years. its so awesome.

Composite input was important back in those days, the huge work was just about to begin to digitize old 2" and 1" videotapes. And they sure were composite formats! Also in many studios digibetas went straight in to replacing 1" machines, all cameras, visionmixers and everything in studio was built in composite.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I'm aware that Composite Video was used in studios for a while and this was useful for drop-in replacement. Some early professional formats were Composite Video only for this reason.

Great!!!!! excellent video and a beautiful format! successes!

In a Pro environment we would always feed a signal from a Hi-8 or VHS deck into a house synced TBC first and then into a Digibeta deck. Hence, why no S-Video input.

What a beautiful machine. Now I want one.

That is gorgeous!

This is a great video thank you so much for uploading this video to KZread

Awesome video about a great machine

Another great video Colin, and I like the way you involve your family and your outro montage.

@jefferyira1917

2 жыл бұрын

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@damianjohnny6475

2 жыл бұрын

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@jefferyira1917

2 жыл бұрын

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@jefferyira1917

2 жыл бұрын

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@damianjohnny6475

2 жыл бұрын

@Jeffery Ira Happy to help :D

The DVW series of machines are such good machines. I use them at work almost every day, our DVW-A500 has around 15,000 hours on the heads and it is just fine. We also have a DVW-A500 P for PAL work and an MSW-M2000 for NTSC or PAL depending on the menu setting (and sync fed in) along with one lone Ampex CVR-60P (Sony BVW-60P) for the really tough PAL tapes. We also have the record inhibit permanently enabled on every machine that it can be In the States, I very rarely see a 500 series machine that does not have the composite in option, as these and the SX cousins the DNW series were meant to drop right in place of an SP or oxide Betacam deck, and although they are all component formats, most edit suites and especially remote (OB) trucks at local TV stations were composite video.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

I've never seen a DVW-A500P which does have the composite video option, either in real life or even for sale. Seems like a rarer option here. Just wish it had S-Video in and out, and monitor audio would be handy too.

@azmath2059

3 жыл бұрын

I very much agree, great machines. We have 18 DVW's in racks playing and digitising simultaneously here where I work. Some DVW's can do 20,000 hrs before a head change.

@azmath2059

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk All the DVWA500P's & DVW500P's had a composite input connector, but, not all had the associated DEC-65 board that performed the processing. This was an option. S-Video was never considered for DigiBeta because it wasn't a Broadcast Standard, and the DVW's won't accept non-TBC'd signals. Back in those days, most VCR's that had S-Video out didn't have a built in TBC.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

@@azmath2059 Yet the UVW1800P and similar BetacamSP decks do have S-Video connectors. Yes, I was aware that the Composite Video input socket is always fitted, even though the option board often (usually?) isn't. Odd logic really that Composite Video input was considered OK but the much higher quality S-Video was not. So if you wanted to source some material from say a Sony EV-S9000E Hi8 with TBC, you had to use Composite.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

@@azmath2059 Do you have a source for pinch rollers?!

Hi Colin great video

I've bought a Sony dvw 790wsp from a german E-Bay seller. This camera is used but it works perfectly. I've also bought also from E-Bay BCT-D40 Digibeta metal tapes The Sony Digital Betacam format reminds me of my childhood. Greetings from Austria

@video99couk

2 жыл бұрын

I would love one of those, not because it's especially useful these days but just because it looks awesome. You would certainly get noticed if you took that and started recording anywhere. Do these tend to suffer from rot on the lenses as earlier models do?

The best!🙌

Thanks for the nice trip down memory lane for me. I maintained just about every pro format from 2" quad to HDCAM-SR for a US TV network. I was sent to Sony's service training classes for Betacam SP, Betacam SP camcorder, Digi Beta, XDCAM, and HDCAM camcorder. I always learned a lot which wasn't in the service manual. Do you know about the hidden menus in the BVW-75? The only feature I remember is that it could enable loop play or record. That is very dangerous so it was well hidden. BTW Ampex DCT has to be the best SD recorder ever made.

I've just brought one of these machines and looking forward to playing around with it. I used to use them in a studio many years ago so it's a bit of walk down memory lane for me. The unit I have has the composite decoder card installed.

@video99couk

2 жыл бұрын

It's worth checking the state of the pinch roller, my original was well past its best. I have two of the recorders (one with Composite in) and one player. All are A models so can play SP tapes too.

I used to use these on a daily basis as a BBC Editor

I have one here in living room, and the pal.In board,but sdi is used more often, low head hours too luckily The fan noise is something else however.. Nice playback of SP and digi ofc. Enjoy the grief from missus.. been.there lol

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

Nice domestic video recorder though, that must be a talking point for visitors.

7:27, this LTC XLR connection is to dub the TC from a Betacam SP deck most of the time.

Really enjoyed this overview of the DigiBeta machine. I was just starting to service some of these before leaving the industry. Wonderful to work on like other Sony machines but I did not like doing the head changes, very fiddly mechanical alignments with the fixed upper drum and inner head drum. Did you manage to source a pinchroller?

@video99couk

Жыл бұрын

Yes, on a later video you see me install a revised version of pinch roller. I understand that head changes are beyond what I could do with out alignment equipment.

I'm only partway through the video so you may have discovered the source of your black debris contamination - but it's not tape-related - it's the insulation sponge from the top cover deteriorating and raining down into the gubbins. I've had that problem with that type of sponge breaking down like that before in other contexts (typically travel cases padded with the same type of material.) I removed all traces of it from my top cover and wherever it littered the floor of the tape mech.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

Could be, I'll check that.

Betacamrecorders and DV Recorders must go on Play and Record to Recording any on the Tape. I must learn this, on my Sony DSR25 many Years later, when i have a Betamax Recorder...

Do you know what battery these use? I also got a DVW-2000 and it gives me error 96 which means dead battery for the NVRAM. Is it just a coincell battery like CR2032? Is it soldered in? I looked though the service manual and couldn't figure out what battery type.

33:24 This is not only set for remote control operation, but also the VTR is in Record Inhibit mode, hence the reason why you can't record something on a Digital Betacam L size tape previously.

hi that funny first time you have record try the 4 channel audio hifi stereo it is very ace i can tell you lot of audio levels lot of gain

You should turn the Tape Counter off of "Free Run" because that's why it was counting without it actually being in a function.

Hey man! So I just got one of these, but the video signal is blank gray, any ideas for fixes?

not sure if its been mentioned, but timecode in is for genlocking which means that the studio / facility picture chain is completely synced to a base clock

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I assumed it was something like that, but I've never worked in a studio so not had to use that connector.

@andydelle4509

3 жыл бұрын

Actually timecode is just an analog 2400/1200hz signal representing time down to the frame. It should be normally locked to tape vertical sync. Genlocking is done via the EXT REFERENCE input or can use INPUT VIDEO as well. This is for locking the internal TBC to your house sync so the VTR can be mixed with other synchronous sources. The timecode is what the edit system uses to know which frame is which.

@MePeterNicholls

3 жыл бұрын

@@andydelle4509 that’s a much much better and fuller explanation than I could have given. Thanks for the info :)

Sony sold NTSC and PAL versions of this machine, need the opposite standard, well just buy two machines! But these machines could be fairly easily modified to dual standard 525/625. All that needed to be done was to change the master VCO on the internal sync generator. The beauty of an all digital servo system and digital signal processing - it was frequency agnostic. A small shop in Hollywood made a fortune in selling this switchable dual standard modification. Sony had a fit and went so far as to modify the sync generator section to where this unauthorized upgrade was not possible on later serial numbers.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

That's just mean of Sony, unless there was some other reason. Would the dropout compensator work properly on the "wrong" standard perhaps?

@andydelle4509

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk Yes the DOC should work as it's done digitally and an RF dropout is the same in 525 or 625. I should note that the first digital VTR, the D1 format, Soiny DVR-1000, was dual standard and so was the Ampex DCT format that was competition to Digital Betacam was also dual 525/625.

have you had issues with Sony branded Digital betacam tape stock blocking the heads within 5 sec all the time?

DVW=Digital video workhorse. Hard to believe the format is 27 years old. The DCT compression development of this VTR was done at Sony Basingstoke. The early machines suffer capacitor rot unfortunately and can often create a puff of smoke.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

As mine is year 2000, I think that would be a later model.

@chancewolf3739

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk Mine ran great for awhile (early one that's an A500 despite the fact the front plate says 500) until one day I noticed I had no audio level display. Poked around a bit and yes...one of the electrolytic capacitors had chucked its cookies. It looked as though it was in circuit as a filter cap and was dragging down the power to the display so I just took it out of circuit and...voila! Back in business. I *hate* to think that problem's lurking within on other boards to any great extent as I love my A500. Realistically I suppose I should acquire a spare in the event of future problems. Or just another to keep it company.

i think that you have to press REC & PLAY together :)

Greetings I just got the sony DNW-A500P I connected it via SDI to an AJA card in my computer but it doesn't seem to get the signal Does the beta happen to have a switch to output video from either the analog or digital outputs or it should output from both anyway For now I can only see it in component or composite Thank you

@video99couk

Жыл бұрын

The DVW-A500P should output to the SDI port at all times, as far as I'm aware.

I know that you can measure your current pinch roller and get one with the same measurements, but that only works if you can slide the rubber part off the core and put the new one in. I've never tried this myself as on the VCR I had this problem on the rubber couldn't be taken off the core.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

I have a replacement which has been sent to me and will feature here shortly.

@NikHYTWP

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk Great to hear! I'm excited to see it featured as this is a really cool machine. Would love to own a DigiBeta deck myself but they're hard to find where I live and out of my price range

Hey, nice video! Is it posiblble to feed a video through sdi to the to the sdi inpunt a record it to a beta tape?

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

Yes you can record from SDI to DigiBeta, but not to analogue BetacamSP.

Where can I get this Sony DVW-A500P and the Digital Betacam and Betacam SP tapes you have free completely?

I have betacam device and when I play tape the picture ok but there is some black scratches , how can I fix it

@video99couk

2 жыл бұрын

There could be any number of reasons, dropouts or other problems. It needs to be tried on different players to start with.

I always keep the record inhibit switch turned on with my machines unless I’m planning to actually record on a tape. On most Sony machines the record inhibit indicator is different for a protected tape or an inhibited machine; from memory I think it’s steady for one and flashes for the other. You haven’t mentioned the flashing stop button. I don’t have a Digibeta, but on my other machines this indicates that a reference video signal, normally black and burst but it can be a full composite video signal, is not being received.

@video99couk

Жыл бұрын

I hadn't realised that's why the stop button flashes. I will check that it stops when I feed video into the machine. I can feel a KZread Short coming on, to cover that subject.

@srfurley

Жыл бұрын

@@video99couk With the use that you’re likely to put you machines to you probably don’t need to use reference video, Nd there should be an option in the menus somewhere to turn off the warning flash. Most broadcast grade recorders and certain other devices such as the Sony component colour corrector, will have reference video connections. There should be a pair of BNC sockets with a passive loop through between them, and a 75 Ohm termination switch, as with a composite video input. It’s basically a timing and phase reference between multiple machines.

When re-capping, where do you source your parts ?

@video99couk

Жыл бұрын

For critical jobs I use capacitors from CPC, RS or similar. For less important work I buy kits of capacitors from eBay.

Have you tried drilling holes on a Betacam SP tape so the player will recognize it as Digital Betacam? I'm sure it'll work and record fine. Just like VHS and SVHS.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

I suspect it would work badly. An experiment for another day. There were yellow BetacamSX tapes which were used on compatible digital SX machines, and these were effectively BetacamSP tapes in a different shell. The SX machines could record digitally on BetacamSP tapes too.

@azmath2059

3 жыл бұрын

@Matt Quinn That is correct, SP tape has a very different tape formulation and is also microscopically different to DigiBeta. You cannot use SP tape on a DigiBeta machine. I experimented with this back in the late 90's when DigiBeta VCR's first came out.

The best thing about discovering this upload is, that I had the pleasure to subscribe to a whole new channel with hopefully a ton of videos. So...you're hoarding videos ? :D You're most certainly several steps ahead I'd say. I'm nowhere near the joys you're having. But.....Just received two JVC first generation HR-S5000EH S-VHS machines today, so I'm up to six of them. Four Danish/Scandiavian machines and two German. This time around, almost 35 years after introduction, they're all faulty and need special care, but I hope to end up with two fully working Danish machines and a lot of spareparts. And on a personal note. Never expect the next generation to catch the awe and admiration. They haven't lived through the developments or haven't experienced how cool it was, that you could record living pictures on a tape. They haven't experienced how expensive videotapes were either. They're used to that everything works at the tip of their fingers. Funny world. Cheers. Hope you've installed the new pinch roller.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

Yes the pinch roller goes in here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3l5q7qsnpPcmJM.html My sons never watch my videos, even the ones they appear in. Old technology doesn't grab youngsters much.

@DK640OBrianYT

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk Such a coincidence. I've just watched it, seconds ago. Then I may have a trick. Just tell the next generation there's money buried in it. There really is, because once repaired/refurbished and working....and counting 15-25 years from now, we will be in a world where there's more working Edison Home Phonographs from 1880-1918 around, than working televisions or videotaperecorders from 1950-1999. I have the same bacille, but not the space to grab what ever come my way. I was once given a Sony 1" C-format BVH-1000 and a bunch of reel tapes, sometime almost a decade ago. I had plans with it, but it stole half a Kilowatt and sounded like an airport taking off. It was beautiful, but was given away in the same spirit as received. A faulty Hi8 Sony pro-broadcast model sat in a closet and was given away. The same with two Philips VCR's N1700 and N1702. The sad thing about all this is, that I handed them out before having the guts to learn to dive into the electronics and mechanics, finding service manuals and before I bought equipment. Tektronix 1725 WFM and 1735 Vector combo, Tektronix 1411 with all options and a WM700A should be coming soon. But never mind. I've settled my mind on the first generation JVC HR-S5000EH consumer S-VHS and with my limited amount of energy that might be enough. I hope to repair and refurbish and on top of that, to electronically align two machines to record better on Fuji H471S tape, than the factory set would have done. It's a theory as of now, but let's see. Do you have any experiences in aligning the recording amplifier for a specific tape in this manner ? I think it's the upper sideband I'm glaring at and putting a strong FM-signal (luminance) onto the tape before saturation sets in. Never mind.....I've just discovered your channel. Let me enjoy more of your uploads. There has to be a lot I've missed out on. Cheers mate. Kind regards from Denmark, Scandinvia

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

@@DK640OBrianYT I've not got involved in aligning head amplifiers. I'm aware that at playback, the frequency response of a machine can alter how bad "tails" appear from bright whites on poor / faded / worn tapes. For example, Sony Beta machines usually give better pictures than Sanyo, but super-poor tapes will often give a better result on a Sanyo due to different amplifier responses.

I have SONY MSW-M2000P with Error 96. how can I solve that matter? have you any idea.

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

You will have to look up the service manual for that model. It may not be a simple repair.

How do you connect it to a TV? What adapter did you use?

@video99couk

Жыл бұрын

For video , just a BNC to phono cable. Audio is a little fiddly but headphone jack to phono will do it.

@srfurley

Жыл бұрын

@@video99couk You can get small balun transformers which plug into a XLR socket and provide an unbalanced phono output.

make it more simple please make toturial about bvw75 converting btacam to digital ....talk about wiring connection and how to convert audio and video capture

I have 2 for rebuild

hi funny thing i had a deck with a bad power buttons bang my lights went out the button had a break in it you could see a very fine line where it turned in the to parts beware it eats power you need gold bars to run this deck service book i down it from the net to save the space and it's easyer to zoom in and out o a computer file i have alot of betacam decks the one thing the tanks are very very heavy man i picked up new sealed tape this week under £1 each lot of old stock about keep betacam going fans

Does it play VHS 📼 tapes?

@video99couk

2 жыл бұрын

No. This is a professional broadcast machine. VHS is firmly a low quality domestic format.

Uhh... Colin, could ya transfer all of your Betacam SP and Digital Betacam tapes you have as well as that HDCAM tape for me?

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

The contents of my test tapes stay with me, they have been variously donated to me but there may be copyright on some of the material.

@northernplacecorporation

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk Then why not transfer some copyrighted material and upload them to Google Drive?

Great video as always. Maybe you can help me with something, I have started doing transfers and I have several low hour and well cared for Panasonic AG-7350/AG-7650/AG-7750 decks yet 'the internet' says these are absolutely 'garbage' players and despite what I had assumed 'very good' characteristics one self-professed internet famous group have declared this equipment as totally unsuitable for transfers. Am I wrong here, are these machines such awful players? Given their pedigree I thought they might have been at least acceptable?

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

I believe the AG-7750 has a TBC so it's going to be a pretty good deck for this kind of work. However in my humble experience, this range of machines suffer from head wear, so you need to be sure the heads are in good condition. They don't have digital tracking so you can get into a mess with the picture tracking and hi-fi audio tracking not being well co-located, so the risk of caption buzz on the hi-fi track. (How digital tracking overcomes this I've never quite understood, but somehow it seems to). Personally I tend to use later machines such as the AG-4700, but I would have no problem running tapes with the AG-7750 in particular.

@musmodtos

3 жыл бұрын

@Matt Quinn I won't name the forum or the characters but it's very cultish around one machine, which just happens to be the one the 'leader of the gang' uses... I have had some posts telling me that these decks were built solely for recording and that the AG-7650 especially is absolute junk, funny that seeing as its not even a recorder... Ho hum. It's amazing the views you find in small communities repeated as fact when one forum _celebrity_ supports them. Anyway great channel Colin.

@lilactime2000

3 жыл бұрын

I have had 4 x AG-7650s over the last 17 years and when they worked they were fabulous, but they a habit of dying quite quickly, even at relatively low hours. Smaller prosumer machines were far more reliable. Without tempting fate some numbers in the Panasonic NV-HS range in the upper 900s can last a very long time, but it is mostly down to luck. Oh the issue I had more often than not with the massive Panasonics was an audio channel going bang. In the end the joy of their quality was outweighed by their fragility so I gave up on them

@azmath2059

3 жыл бұрын

@Matt Quinn Yes, absolutely right. I had a great deal of experience with these back in the early 2,000's and they were incredibly good machines. The picture quality in SVHS was second to none provided we used Fuji SVHS tape. They were also very reliable and easy to work on.

Did you also know the fact that the Sony HDW-M2000P would playback Betacam, Betacam SP, Digital Betacam, Betacam SX, MPEG IMX and HDCAM tapes?

@video99couk

3 жыл бұрын

But not HDCAM-SR, which is what I need a machine for.

@northernplacecorporation

3 жыл бұрын

@@video99couk OK. Almost everything the HDW-M2000P could play, with the exception of HDCAM SR. The SRW-5500 would play and record onto Digital Betacam, HDCAM and HDCAM SR, but not Betacam SP, Betacam SX, Oxide Betacam, and MPEG IMX.

hi card 11 is very good for some things yes i bet the price for it is high it doe's say on the back of the deck to all over there this deck is very HEAVY i can tell you you need a go rack to wheel them a round on i don't have video decks over 6ft high on a rack the in sur can be funny funny thing i have talked to some people have had to sell there betacam because they don't have the room for them in the cave and the lady of the place said to sell it my lady is a cat there's only 7 big players who buy used betacam decks and we are on you mail alot i just got in the betacam from betamax let me down alot

I bet your wife really liked that addition to your collection he he :-D That pinch roller is way past dead, there has to be some model of sony that has a compatable one. The head cleaning roller, Maybe remove it and brush the loose stuff off and use a new toothbrush and alcohol to give it a light scrub, drys in air :-D How you love to torture your children ha ha :-D

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My wife wasn't impressed. Even less so since it's now sitting in a hallway while I ponder how to source a pinch roller.

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