I have this VCR which I bought new for $499.00 from an electronics store called Savemart back in 1991. It actually still works even though I don't use it anymore. This has to be literally the best VCR ever made, bar none. I had to have it serviced once after I spilled a coke on top of it and it corroded a small part of the circuit board. I almost cried when I did that! This is the only electronic piece of equipment I will never get rid of!

I had one of these. I bought it at Video Concepts, which was a division of Tandy. Coolest VCR I’ve ever seen.

@ 9:46 That's the rectifier circuit. @ 9:49 That's the tuner circuit. What gives it away is all the shielding.

That's a nice VCR. It would be a fun one to play with. Back in like 86, I used my paper route money and bought a 4 head stereo GE vcr from an "authorized dealer". Never saw that model anywhere else...it was a tank. Awesome remote, great picture quality. Had a headphone jack, it was so cool. I would only put the best tapes in it. I liked these Fuji's that came in a grey case that opened and snapped shut. Those Matsushita machines from the 80's were really tight.

What a beautiful, smooth moving machine! And thanks for the insightful video!

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

What a great VCR. Drawer loading machines were even rare back in the day, and are super-rare now. I still have 3 JVC VHS VCRs and 1 Sony. Also have 10 sealed blank Fuji Super VHS 180 min tapes in library boxes. These can of course, be used in normal VHS machines (like mine) but with downgraded resolution.

Wow, I actually owned this VCR. still in my closet somewhere. I had to stop using it when something went wrong with it & it started to damage the lower edge of the tape. Also, the S-Video input jack was on the front behind the Left cover. For some odd reason, it did not have it on the back.

I love your videos. We grew up with Toshiba VCRs.. Never knew this one existed... Nice! Of course my parents would never had paid that much for one like this... haha!

I still have my 771 w/remote and the Owner's Manual. One of the great features was High Speed Rew and FF claiming under 3 min. What is interesting is that this thing really spins up super fast and when it nears the end, it slows down since hitting the tape end at this speed would destroy the cartridge. I swear they claimed it used Fuzzy Logic but I couldn't find it in the manual. This and my Mitsu U82 were the basis of my SVHS "operation." It also had an INDEX function on the remote: You can FF index to the next start of a record session. I wish I could find a schematic and service manual: While mine works just fine, if I try FF or REW while playing, the tape momentarily loses tension and the tape get's permanently scratched. My first thought is the electronic back tension needs increased but I need those documents to proceed. Belts may be the culprit but everything else worked just fine. Of course that was over 20 years ago (!) LOL I hope to get into it in the next year and can only imagine what else has "timed out." NOTE: Also have a Laserdisc player too and the 40000 JVC D-VHS (had the 30k which I got rid of which is probably more desirable since it appeared not to have 5C on it. The 40k does and won't record stuff the 30k would. Anyone remember the Vidcraft The Play Right? LOL I sitll have mine and always bragged that Beta was impervious to Macrovision. Then Sony made more Beta machines and the US Congress passed US Code requiring all modern VCR's have to have circuitry that "succumbs" to Macrovision - a sad day for Beta... Apologies! I digress....

I have this in my house still somewhere I always thought the loading deck was so futuristic LOL.

I just answered a question you asked in one of your previous videos. In the video titled 'This VCR can freeze your TV' at about 10 minutes in you asked what HP Select is. This is unique to Toshiba machines. It has to do with the playback and picture sharpness. In the 90s I used to have different video recorder machines at different times from Sony to JVC and Ferguson Videostar. I never had a Toshiba. Every one of them were just as noisy because of the motors spinning for the various parts to work. The constant whirr of the head drum spinning was so loud I was able to ignore it. Eventually the noise became intolerable so I got rid of them. As technology advanced I got into DVDs. My best machine was a Sony RDR-HXD 870; it was one of the first digital machines that had an analogue tuner with digital. The DVD was quieter as was the hard drive. The noisiest part was the cooling fan. Now I watch all my stuff using my Desktop PC which has a solid state hard drive. The only moving part in this machine is the cooling fan which is so quiet I can hardly hear it.

Very cool retro tech!!

Hi thanks for showing a vintage VCR

@livelongandprosper70

6 жыл бұрын

vintage ?? lol..

@dcfuksurmom

6 жыл бұрын

its not vintage. old but not vintage. its from the 90s

Love the LD player

beautiful !!!

I'd like to see some information on that sweet vintage TV. One can't really judge well over a camera mic, but seems to deliver powerful bassy audio, too!

hi sir, great video, that was the old days back then, I do miss them a bit. you know about this still try to adjust the tension belt that might work. Thanks

Nice vcr!

This is a 6-head VCR. That is three record heads and three playback heads. That was generally only found on commercial equipment.

Sony had a Betamax machine, the SL-HF950, that had its whole mechanism mounted in a motorised drawer. I myself had a SABA (rebadged JVC) that also had a drawer that could accept regular cassettes and VHS-C ones without the need of an adapter.

i had that laserdisc player .. i loved it... funny to think it wasnt even HD .. im in scotland year was about 1995 ish..

Thats cool.🎥📺📼

When you pause it at 16:09 I think what we see here is the previous recording showing as being still on the tape (a cartoon). While in pause mode, this VCR tries to adjust the picture and it's picks up both the recent and previous recording.

Nice deck!

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks VEG!

We still have simulcasting in Melbourne light FM 98.9 have simulcasting of the chanel nine news at six o colck during the week

We had one around 78 that was top loading with pushbutton controls like an older cassette player. WAY bigger than this.

What year was this TV? Because this tv have amazing colors for however old it is!? And I love the VHS player!

@lesrogers7310

5 жыл бұрын

I believe it's one he has refurbished with new electronics.

I got one of these new back in the day - didn't last very long as there's so much that could and went wrong with it.

Very interesting :)

Simulcast was used by MTV back in the 80s before TV got stereo.

@americanpatriot646

6 жыл бұрын

Would that mean you could get the audio of MTV for free from fm.

If you have a bad pause on a 4 head machine, you have a failed / clogged head. It uses different heads for the paused picture. You can also tell this on picture search, you should see ripples in the picture during search and not noise bars.

If you haven't figured out the tray loader not going all the way in without help, I'd suggest cleaning the gear mechanism that guides it in. There could be some gunk or dirt causing it to stop moving.

@schutz85

6 жыл бұрын

At least I'm being helpful, and not a sarcastic smartass about it.

SVHS didn't even arrive to my crappy country, lol. Even devices that accept S-Video input are very rare here.

Thank you

@databits

6 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed! Thank you for watching!

What does the syncro edit button do?

That tray is like some DAT recorders. Bad idea. Also I’m guessing that the record level was automatic. I remember a lot of hifi machines with peak meters but manual record level.

I service and restore consumer-grade S-VHS VCRs for over 17 years, and I declare Toshiba built the longest-lasting S-VHS VCRs on Earth. Period. Don't look at any other brand, you're done shopping. The only common problem in the Toshibas are belts, that's all (don't panic, that's great news), and loading motor (before SV-771 model existed). Toshiba was the only S-VHS VCR maker without any common electronic problems reported. They always play pictures perfectly because Toshiba's video process board is all-digital circuitry with minimum number of capacitors used. Toshiba did not put in any single surface-mount capacitor. The other brands always have multiple electronic problems, not just belts alone. That includes Panasonic and Sony not in my recommended list. Sorry, but JVC S-VHS VCRs have way more problems than Toshiba (at least 5 times more I calculate).

@japoople

5 жыл бұрын

Too bad Toshiba's build quality has taken a nosedive over the past 27 years. Shit they make nowadays breaks in two years.

@lesrogers7310

5 жыл бұрын

You are right BUT....JVC had most of the innovations like the tilting head drum.

@NigelMontezuma

Жыл бұрын

WTF?! One model of an S-VHS VCR of theirs is made by Samsung! Are you sure you don't recommend a Samsung VCR?!

@waltchan

Жыл бұрын

@@NigelMontezuma The 1997-2001 Toshiba S-VHS came with Samsung VCR mechanism, but the units were assembled by Venturer Electronics in China.

@NigelMontezuma

Жыл бұрын

@@waltchan China ...yuck

nice

I have a VCR that is from the 80's, when in mode fast forward or rewind mode the audio is speedup every quietly. How i know it you half to crank up the TV at a volume to hear it

16:07 It appears that due to the camera's shutter speed / frame rate mismatch, a secondary picture is showing in the still (a cartoon of some kind is revealed along with the ASPCA ad). My guess is that the image that is revealed appears to be a previous recording that was underneath the new ASPCA recording that taped over it, and the erase head is either dirty or worn, and thus remnants of the previous recording remain, possibly resulting in a dirty/snowy still image. Either that, or perhaps the erase head isn't playing nice with the tape formulation of the Digital S tape.

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

I forgot to mention that! It appears to be what I previously recorded "leaking" through! Interesting phenomenon!

@ShawnTewes

8 жыл бұрын

Indeed. The transition between the images looks interesting and unusual. I guess to the naked eye it would appear almost as two images superimposed over each other, since one image is interlaced with the other. Assuming this is a 4-head VCR, that could also indicate that one or more of the playback heads is faulty or dirty, resulting in a noisy pause. Perhaps using a normal tape would narrow that down.

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing the previous recording did not get fully erased.

I have a SV-771 Toshiba Diomage Stereo Video Cassette Recorder. I watched your presentation on You Tube and I am betting that it is the belts that are giving me trouble in regard to the front loading system not working any more. Where does one get new ones?

I wonder, how does fast forward work anyway on a VCR? It's not like you can feed a TV 30KHz horizontal rate signal.

Ah for the days when the remote functions were all on the main controls as well.. Heck AHHH for the days real buttons.

@BilisNegra

6 жыл бұрын

Well, it depends on the particular manufacturer and model, even those days. And sure enough, in the '80's the contrary was often the case in lowish range models, and remotes did not always include all of the machine's functions.

Wow!

(something goes wrong with this VCR) (I guess you could say) It's Diomaged.

@dg8019

4 жыл бұрын

More people need to see this comment!

@gamingmusicandjokesandabit1240

4 жыл бұрын

@@dg8019 OK?

Most VCRs have separate slow tracking adjustments.

Toshiba is a traditional old Japanese corporation brand that has always aimed for being a Honda-type kind of best reliability throughout history since the 1950s. Panasonic (or Toyota) is usually #1 most-reliable, then Toshiba (or Honda) is #2 most-reliable. Or, the vice versa..., depending on certain product. Often, Toshiba can be #1 most-reliable. Then Sanyo, JVC, Sharp, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Sony, and NEC (ranked in-order) to some degree, according to the 70-year median average reliability (all electronic & appliance products sold since 1950s) published by Consumer Reports magazine.

sorry I didn't get it.. are you switching channels from the TV or is all that recorded on the tape itself?? like if the tape had multiple layers?? I saw you changing channels and pausing them... what was that ???

@BilisNegra

6 жыл бұрын

If it's unclear to you whether it's direct tuner signal or a recording, that's saying a lot about this VCR's quality. Yet, it should have been clear to you when he pauses the tape, since still image is quite bad (maybe not originally so, but because some parts are badly worn).

any Betamax deck you have?

13:02 Looks like eyes. 👀

I just pulled mine out of the closet while watching this video. The machine powers on but needs TLC from an experienced enthusiasts. I am willing to sell it for super cheap to one of your subscribers or viewers. Or I will list it on ebay in 7 days.

Does anyone know what the belt sizes are for this machine or perhaps where to get them? Thamks...

Couldn't any VCR record audio from another source if it were recorded using composite cables? The first similcast tv show that I can remember growing up was the Motown 25 show with Michael Jackson. We had a Betamax then, but we didn't bother to record it.

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

The point is that it uses the video from the internal tuner but allows an external audio source. If you had a cable box the feature was pointless.

The pause issue looks like a dirty or bad special effects head. This high end vcr should have pretty clear pause.

Those broadcast-grade VHS tapes don't exactly behave well in a standard (S)VHS recorder.

Skip 12:03 actual loading of the vhs.

@imonit1177

4 жыл бұрын

GOD THANKYOU!

Great vhs vcr! Hello from Russia to all old school japan vhs recorders fans!!!

@07:47 lol! There's a typo in the French version of the warning telling you to be careful for your fingers... "(...) vos doigts _dana_ ce tiroir." "Dana" should have been *"dans".*

How much would this player have cost when it was brand new?

Can you put the digital S tape into the machine without any modification? I thought the tape is similar to that of WVHS which uses metal tape.

@databits

7 жыл бұрын

Good question, but I only have one tape which was already modified.

@louisho3355

7 жыл бұрын

So metal tape won't damage the heads?

Man, I just have a CLD-1080 - what am I supposed to stack my Diomage on now?

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

That will qualify.

what does the synchro to edit button do

@DAVIDGREGORYKERR

8 жыл бұрын

synchro edit means that it controls the playback machine is make crisp clean edits but both machines have to be the same.

Where could I find one of these?

@dg8019

4 жыл бұрын

I have one that powers on but needs some TLC. In getting ready to list it on ebay but I'd rather give you a great deal if you are still interested.

That's almost identical to the Japanese model, The toshiba BS ARENA BS-62 Which would cost ￥153000 From 1991.

@RobertSchauer1981

6 жыл бұрын

I wonder why they didn't go with the name "BS ARENA" here in the States. Weird.

@janchristianursuaaguilar7434

5 жыл бұрын

@@RobertSchauer1981 thats because it only exist in japan unless you we're refering to satellite television

right when the tray opened at 8:11 my video froze lol

Where do you find these high end VCR's?

@databits

6 жыл бұрын

Thrift stores mostly.

I want it

Can play vhs and svhs

Must really be a bitch to get a tape out, if that drawer mechanism ever fails.

Give me this vcr, please, I'm crying here for him :''(

what is a digital s tape and a super vhs tape?

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

Digital S is a pro format mainly used by Fox News back in the day. Super VHS provided 500 lines of resolution vs 240 lines of VHS.

@Lowmandavis

8 жыл бұрын

+databits oh ok, thanks :D

do you have a video on that fake old tv?

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

I don't. I've mentioned it in several videos.

@1marcelfilms

6 жыл бұрын

ok

@1marcelfilms

2 жыл бұрын

What?

Pretty silly to use a super machine like this without seeing the benefits of the S-VHS tapes and the S-VHS cable you get much higher quality I had a JVC one I think that S-VHS uses 400 lines like a DVD player wheeas he standard VHS uses only 250 therefore the higher quality. Looks a fine machine anyway.

@lesrogers7310

5 жыл бұрын

In theory a D-VHS tape like the one used here has a very similar tape formulation to S-VHS, possibly it's even higher grade.

Does it play ordinary VHS ?

@doctorfeinstone6524

6 жыл бұрын

barriep9 yes

@lesrogers7310

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, all S-VHS machines will play standard VHS but will do so with lower resolution of up to 250 lines.

will you sell it?

@databits

7 жыл бұрын

I sold it.

Would you be selling this one?

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, that will likely be its fate.

Best moment at 8:12! Loved it! :D LoL

@databits

6 жыл бұрын

Ha! Thanks!

one or more play heads needs a clean, bits of old tape running over it over the years has built-up stopped reading the tape, or one or more have failed, it a high end machine, so its going have four or six heads, it can get by with two just playing, just like a regular cheaper VCR's, terrible -)

I have one like this heads are shot though poor video (even after cleaning them ) everything else works good

the changed belt is to long! change it to a smaller one. The mechanism can't suck in the Tape with the correct Force. Then came the Timeout and the Tape will be Eject again. Change the belt to a new shorter belt and clean the wheels. i never see a worst Picture like this from a Video recorder. The Problem with the Red-Noise is a 80s Problem on VHS Video machines. Still Picture means that the 2nd LP Heads are not open (clean) or defect. The 2nd Heads are needed to have a Undisturbed good Picture during Still (Pause). The reason why the Video recorder need the LP Heads for a not Noise Picture is that during SP-Play alle Tracks that written and read from the Tape are curved this is correct during the Tape is moving with the SP Speed but if the Tape is Still in Pause the Head A & B are reading the Track not at the same curve as the moving Tape so the read a little bit between the Tracks from Head A and B so between the Tracks are no Videoinformation on the Tape. The Heads are reading the Noise and this is what you can see on the Screen. With the 2nd Heads for LP they will switched to this Heads during Still and can read the Videoinformation because this Heads have a other mechanical high and can read the Videoinformation from the Tape. There is now a clear Still Picture. I think the LP Heads are dirty - clean it and the Still will work. Defect is also the Pinch roller you can see this on the black little Tape Parts the are inside the Cassette Load. This Recorder will destroy all Tapes during Playing therefor the Still don't work too. You must change the Pinch roller.

15:40 chipmunk TV

@jeltesmit4222

5 жыл бұрын

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Looks like your erase head isn't doing a good job, when you paused you can see remnants of a previous recording.

hey

@databits

6 жыл бұрын

hey!

why are you speaking in iambic pentameter

...unnecessary extra step that forces you to drop the tape vertically in the drawer. All the drawer does is do what you would do on any front-loader. I would call it a gimmick.

Not even over a grand when it was new? Not impressive. :P

ninth to watch

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

Tyler, you rock!

@coolguy2370

8 жыл бұрын

+databits you rock too

@databits

8 жыл бұрын

+tyler henry - you rock more lol

@coolguy2370

8 жыл бұрын

+databits thanks lol