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Beta VCR

ATFATF Member Posts: 11,683 ✭✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
How many of you people own and use a Beta VCR ?
I find most people I ask don't even know what it is.




ATF

Edited by - ATF on 09/15/2002 11:04:13
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  • William81William81 Member Posts: 25,487 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember the format. Didn't it pretty much die out by the mid 80's

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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....It's sitting in the closet with my 4 and 8 track car tape decks, reel-to-reel tape recorder, and lava lamp.....
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  • ATFATF Member Posts: 11,683 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rembrant,You should put it up for auction.Depending on the make and model they get pretty good bids ,but shipping is on the high side.



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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rembrandt;

    Lava Lamps are back in Style and 8 Track Tapes are getting High Dollar.


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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Mine isn't working anymore but I have a bunch of tapes I would like to copy. I had a B&W camera that I took a lot of pictures of my kids with. I went to a place that copies them but for some reason they wouldn't copy.
    If you want one that noone has heard of I have a portable VCR that uses the Technicolor format. It is a fairly good size recorder & a
    seperate camera. Several years ago I bought a new battery for it & the only place in the world to buy it was from "Mad Man Muntz" as he had bought up the manufacturers entire supply of tapes & parts when they went out of bussiness.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ....I've been burnt a few times on changing formats. Bought an 8 track tape recorder thinking it would beat out the cassette....

    Anyone remember the early video disc's.....movies were available on a disc the size of a LP record...

    Also have a Bell & Howell super 8mm movie camera....then there were the cameras that used "flash cubes".....

    Good thing guns don't change as frequently as audio/video equipment...
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had an excellent Marantz Beta VCR with a wired remote and hi-fi magnetic stereo sound. It gave an even better presentation than you can get on VHS. When it broke down, I repaired it once, but it broke down again. I finally dumped it. Now those HQ Beta tapes are either in storage or gone too. I had thought for a while about getting another Beta machine, like a Sony BetaMax, to show those tapes, but very few Beta machines had stereo sound, let alone the 5.1 and 6.1 surround we are becoming spoiled by today.

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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gotta love my ATI All In Wonder 128 Pro Radeon video card and Adobe Premier. Just do a video capture and "fix 'er up" in Premier then using some really good "burning" software I make my own DVDs and video disks. Great way to fix up older movies. The same can be done with pics if you have a good way to transfer them to the computer. It also pays to have these 4 80 gig Maxtor drives in here also!
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  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680 ✭
    edited November -1
    Beta is still a viable broacast format.It's more stable than VHS,plus has other advantages that only TV broadcast engineers would appreciate.My fiance bought part of a video production facility from the hospital she works at, in an auction.She was the only bidder.She only bid $100 and got the lot.In it was a broadcast Sony Beta deck.
    We sold it on that famous online auction site(you know the one)for just over $3500!
    So don't short change those old Beta machines just yet!

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  • CWatsonCWatson Member Posts: 964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Beta is supposed to be a better format than vhs and was very popular in the middle east and parts of asia.What killed it?To stream line production cost most major adult video companies only released their movies on vhs.CW

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  • gmayesgmayes Member Posts: 415 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had one a long time ago.Very big and bulky as i remember.
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think I have a working one in a box somewere.....


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  • HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
    edited November -1
    Had one 'cause the technology was supposed to be better; also had the 4-track tape deck & phono system; and the first new technology I bought was a WIRE recorder!! That's what I get for listening to the "experts."

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