Those are some very interesting features for a 70s VCR. Buy hey, as a 2005-born kid, I can never underestimate the power of the 70s!

Wow, nice! My father had one of those in the early 80s, I remember him telling me that it cost him $1100 and it was the cheapest one he could find! He taught me how to fix and adjust it.

My childhood VCR was one of these beasts. My dad was in the air force and he and mom were stationed in Okinawa when the first VCRs were released and this is the one they got.

Oh man, that thing looks beautiful. I mean unlike today's tech where everything is streamlined and what not. 70s, 80s and 90s tech had a lot of character to them with the many buttons, switches and knobs.

This is so cool. 1970s technology

I had a PV-1100 back in the '70s. Ten of us where I worked bought ten PV-1100s from Crazy Eddy in NYC, West 4th. ST in Greenwich Village. I seem to recall we got a "deal", $600 each. The machine was a work horse, and heavy! I still have a few off air TV shows that I recorded on it. I recorded all MASH episodes (250+), some first run some re-runs. Finally got rid of the tapes a few years ago when I bought the series on DVD. Bought it right around the time my first daughter was born, 1977. Also purchased a Panasonic camera, don't recall the model, but it was a quality camera, even had a Canon lens. It came with a 25' cable, and I bought a 25' extension. Can't remember what it cost, both the camera and extension came to about the same price as the VCR. Whenever we visited the in-laws (a 2 hour drive) I would schlep the VCR and camera in two American Tourister suit cases. (Really helped develop my biceps.) The family made fun of me, but I have about 25 tapes of all nieces and nephews. Starting to archive the tapes to DVD.

We had one of these when I was a kid (actually the identical looking PV-1200 6hr version). Back when the VCRs were almost as big as the televisions. I remember it lasted until around 1987 when the "Dew" light came on and could never get it to work again. Nice to see one of these in good working order.

Cool! This was one of Panasonic’s first VHS VCR’s, it was made in 1978, the year I was born. This was the same VCR used in a TV commercial. It has a 2-speed unit, by the early 1980’s, it has a 3-speed unit where you can record up to 6 hours in EP/SLP mode, this early VCR records up to 4 hours in LP mode. BTW, the Viacom “Wigga Wigga” logo was at 9:17 shown at the end of “Perry Mason”. I remember when “Perry Mason” was on Superstation WTBS in the 1980’s, it had the “V of Doom”.

What a wonderful machine. Good to see it's still getting some use!

I can still remember one of the greatest family occasions is when we got our first VCR back in 83.

WOW! that is very useful! Recording Atari game tournaments, recording tv, and a clock all in one... and woodgrain

These machines are so beautiful and well built. I want to own them all!!!! New technology has its place too, I think that's amazing, but it doesn't give me a warm feeling or anything I want to collect like these vhs's or betamax do. :-)

I still remember how impressed I was the first time I saw a VCR in action. It was in 1977 and I was 19 at the time. I remember asking my brother "You mean this thing ACTUALLY records what's on TV so you can watch it whenever you want!!?? That's SO cool! " Unfortunately I wouldn't be able to afford one until the summer of 1984 when the prices ranged from $500 to $700. My first VCR was a Panasonic beta.

if someday we can have the built quality of those times...

I'm so jealous! the picture quality is fantastic! our first VCR was similar and I love that smell of the electronics when it got too hot after playing hours and hours of movies

This was the first VCR I bought. It was the Panasonic PV-1200 and it had three speeds SP, LP, and SLP. I paid $730 for it in August 1980. It was heavy but seemingly indestructible and it worked great for years. When stereo TV came in 1985, I sold it to a friend and bought one of the new Panasonic Hi-Fi Stereo VHS recorders. Sure wish I knew what happened to that old mono VHS recorder now though as it was really solidly built and would still work today. I still have some VHS tapes of archive material from long ago that I would rather play on that old Panasonic PV 1200 instead of the lightly built DVD/VHS player combo units made in Singapore that seems to be the only kind you can get nowadays. The modern stuff seems to break down and eat tapes more often than not, and some of the tapes I have are irreplaceable.

These Early VCR's lasted longer then these newer models

I bought one of these in the Quasar version in 1978 for $1200.00[about 8-9 thousand in today's dollars]. It was a really big deal back then. But they were crap. Both mine and my buddy's broke down constantly because of broken belts. There were no replacement parts available so we had to super glue them together every few days of use. No built in timer either. I loved the damn thing.

Slap a Magnavox label on it and it's a spitting image of the VCR my parents had during the late 70s.

I remember my elementary school had exactly this VTR on a cart with a big Electrohome TV on top in the library for videos to be shown to the class.

This was quality built!

Had this VCR in my elementary school in the eighties. It was branded as RCA.

My child hood vcr Panasonic 1100 first watched movie this Panasonic vcr my father purchased. And after many more

These VCR were made to last. Later model were like one time use, something went wrong, it went to the trash,

I stumbled on your video while doing research to find a good quality VHS VCR (as opposed to just about anything built after DVDs had taken over the market). This brings back memories. The first VCR my family had was the version of this that had an "SLP" (aka EP) mode, but it was otherwise identical. We used it well into the 90s, because the thing was built like a tank and incredibly reliable. It ate the occaisional tape over the years, but even when it did, it was almost always easier to get the tape out than it was on the front loaders. The remote was really only useful to edit out comercials when recording while watching a show, but in some ways it was better for that purpose than later infrared remote VCRs because of the instant response of the mechanical switch. A fun fact about that VCR: when Macrovision copy protection became common, we could always get a clean copy using it as the source. You lost the stereo soundtrack, but the picture was always clear.

I Loved your video.great piece of history right here! Very awesome!!!

I still have one, my father bought it in 1988.

I had a 1984 top loading GE VHS player with wired remote. Never seen this Panasonic model before, very nice.

Very nice and well taken care of!

I have the PV-1200 which looks like this one and it works perfectly. Great picture.

All can say is that it's beautiful!!!

I adore your setup. It is so late 1970s!

Some Extremely Rare 1970's and 1980's VHS Movies have dubbing Weird audio at the end during the Black screen

You have to let it warm up. 😆 Nice. I remember old tvs being that way too

So beautiful

So much bigger than 90s VCRs

That machine looks, sounds, and works remarkably similar to my RCA Select-A-Vision from the same year. It seems the only difference was a badge change.

That vcr came out win I was born

Now that's what i call AWESOME the tournement recording feature of this panasonic vcr deck, it's sooo cool how the manual shows how to connecr a atari or philips console to a vcr deck, now that's what i call FORWARD THINKING in 1987,concidering not mamy peoples dit had a vcr deck or game console,and those few ones wich dit had one or both systems must have been rich . I really hardly can imagine that in 1978 some gamers ever wanted to record games on vcr tapes,because vcr tapes were damm expensive aswell. Anyway,just amezing!!!

In those days, not many could afford VCRs. As I remember, they were far from being an instant hit and took over a decade to decline to a price most people could afford.

One of my last memories with my grandpa driving to pick up Chinese.....stop! Is that an ancient VCR on the curb?! Dirty as hell! After a good cleaning he picture was losing sync constantly. Had to clean a sensor on the drum itself...now it works great!

i hate now a days... love past

Next time it would be a good idea to close the window shade behind you, lol! Anyway, great videos. Very retro. Reminds me of the first Panasonic VCR I owned. The PV 1225. :-)

I remember my first buying VHS recorder around 1985 but by then they were not as large or as heavy as the one shown here. Before that I owned a Betamax which was large and heavy. Just like the demonstrations here I also used to record shows like Columbo, Rockford Files, Perry Mason and Ironside etc to VHS tape.

My cousin told me his told him dad told that the VCR cost more than him he breaks it he isn't going to sell him.

I remember only VCRs that had front loading heh

My first VCR

ha, my family had one of these circa 1987.

nice video presentation. I had an RCA Selectavision from 1980 that also had audio dub.made many tapes with it and still have some of them. VCRs still RULE IMO.

I remember the VCRs like Mitsubishi, RCA, JVC, Sony and Panasonic from 1984 and they were built like tanks.

love it love going back time

Every 70s VCRs you used to had just look like An Audio Cassette Recorder, I Like the 90s and 2000s VCRs better

These Early models were more reliable than the later models, i had one that lasted for about 10 years

Its so nice.. When you bought this???whensver you see this you just remember your old days.. Isnt it??

Vhs 📼 discontinued in the summer of 2016.

This is weird, how is that possible that you changed normal to vcr tape?

Better than Blue ray!

very nice

This is a #beautiful# machine. I want one!

I will use that to record South Park and MLP

I have one but it’s super fluttery, how can I get this thing serviced

Recorded from TV, right? But the saturation is so beautiful...

Wow. It's 36 years old, it's not restored, and it still works??

I think it was very clever of Panasonic to shut down the picture of the VCR when being put in pause. That way no burn-in could happen to the TV. Pretty smart thinking! :-)

Awesome

Is the top plastic is painted or just straight from the injection moulding machine? Thanks

how does the quality of this VX compare to the VHS, Betamax, Laserdisk and Videodisk????

As for the dew light, how long does it usually take until it's ready?

Cool!

i remember after watching VHS on this machine, it becomes very hOT.

iam very amazed

So I guess you just always use channel 3 or 4 on the VCRs tuner right? Since Digital channels are now the thing.

Hello sir How top make 2020 Panasonic PV-1100 VHS VCR

Tuner: tuning the right sound

Howdy. i'm a dan o'connor too... and love gadgets as well.

they are great i had one

I paid about four hundred dollars for my first model through a video stores in 1981

This VCR has probably only 2 heads and no Hi-Fi sound, am I right?

Unfortunately you could only program one at a time

Do you still own this vcr?

rockford files!! awesome

I'm about to buy one working. Whay should I check? Where are the belts???

When you pause, does the still image appear on the screen? (I suspect it requires RAM, that's why I ask)

9:17 - 1990 Viacom logo!

i was just about to buy one working.... is it easy to tune up¿

i like that blueish green glooming numerical

I have a vcr too! Except not anything like this. Should've got that.

Did you have to tune up or repair this unit? My RCA versions dont have nearly as many working features. Took forever just to find somebody that had the belts still in stock.

Rockford files is a good show.

Can you show me the VCR controls in action using the remote?

the light is terrible with your camera, might use an extra light

Hi there , Wanna sell this if you still have it ….lol

I have one of these.

Vaaaauuuu! Raritet!

That device you're watching this on can do everything that these 100lb weights can do and has better quality. And it fits in your back pocket. Plus a telephone, a computer, a video camera, and the white and yellow pages. In the 80s all of that would fill up a wall unit.

Mine says OMNIVISION VI

The remote control only did pause

better pic

CAN I HAVE UR OLD TV (not really lol)

2:29 yes. tohse machines always warned you of NEVER operate with dew light on (latter models didn´t warn but had the protection circuit built in). If the wet tape tuched the head, could ruin it.