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« Reply #15 on: 25 February 2009, 21:59:46 »
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Whats a VCR....died about 5 years ago didn't they!

Never really liked the idea of plastic tape being dragged screaming across a rotating drum!


Work VERY well in a camera - you produce your archive copy as you go.
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« Reply #16 on: 25 February 2009, 22:19:33 »
Digressing ........
We bought one of  these a couple of weeks back. We should've bought one ages ago as we'd never got around to be able to record anything on the video when went digital via a set-top box. The Humax couldn't be simpler to record with. :y  :y
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« Reply #17 on: 25 February 2009, 22:47:53 »
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Digressing ........
We bought one of  these a couple of weeks back. We should've bought one ages ago as we'd never got around to be able to record anything on the video when went digital via a set-top box. The Humax couldn't be simpler to record with. :y  :y


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Re: First v most recent VCR
« Reply #18 on: 25 February 2009, 23:17:25 »
My 1st VCR was a videostar 3v29 with cable remote.  Also still have a JVC Video somewhere and the old Grandstand videos of the lomabard RAC done on the Videostar in the 70's have fantastic picture qualiy.

Am after multiple TV recording options when I move home inclusing one of these.

http://www.humaxdigital.com/global/products/product_stb_satellite_foxsat-hdr.asp
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« Reply #19 on: 25 February 2009, 23:24:40 »
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cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.

your going back a long way there TB

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« Reply #20 on: 25 February 2009, 23:25:20 »
mine was a Ferguson videostar  top loader with piano key buttons


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« Reply #21 on: 25 February 2009, 23:32:47 »
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mine was a Ferguson videostar  top loader with piano key buttons


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Mine was the model just after with the square push buttons
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Re: First v most recent VCR
« Reply #22 on: 26 February 2009, 00:03:18 »
Still got 2 Ferguson videostars in my wardrobe with cable remotes Theres a JVC in there as well, all the old ones from the living room!
Last one I bought was an all singing all dancing Sony one, my dad decided that it'd work better on his tv so he bought a cheap Sony one and swapped it when I was working away thinking I'd never notice!
I dont think I've ever used it since it was swapped.
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« Reply #23 on: 26 February 2009, 02:50:16 »
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cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.

Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...

Magic or what  :D
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Re: First v most recent VCR
« Reply #24 on: 26 February 2009, 07:11:38 »
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cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.

Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...

Magic or what  :D
remember them, probably early/mid 90s?
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Re: First v most recent VCR
« Reply #25 on: 26 February 2009, 10:27:43 »
One of my summer jobs when I was at uni (back in the late 80's - early 90's) was developing some kit for the experimental HD-MAC HDTV outside broadcast vans. This was a 1250 line 16:9 TV standard that, IIRC, they used to cover the Olympics in the early 90's but which never took off. Not surprising as the signals used over 30MHz bandwidth IIRC, and, to get a decent picture you needed a CRT about half the size of the average living room. :o

Anyway, the devices they used to record that (uncompressed in analogue, IIRC) were fearsome. 8" diameter head with 2" wide tape IIRC. Made a nasty (expensive) mess when that all went tits up! ;D

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« Reply #26 on: 26 February 2009, 11:28:57 »
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cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.

Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...

Magic or what  :D
remember them, probably early/mid 90s?

Nearly right! .... had a look.....coz it was only 6ft away from me....sticky on underneath of it (sony centre) gives a purchase date of 28/08/99.......
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« Reply #27 on: 26 February 2009, 12:49:00 »
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cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.

Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...

Magic or what  :D
remember them, probably early/mid 90s?

Nearly right! .... had a look.....coz it was only 6ft away from me....sticky on underneath of it (sony centre) gives a purchase date of 28/08/99.......


Sony went to the darkside in about 88, but still supplied proper VCRs in the UK to about 93, in US and Japan until 2004
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