@ 13:46, With the Mask movie ejecting, I can hear Jim Carey saying "SMOKIN!' 😂 LOL!

My usual experience when finding a VCR in the wild: "Cool a VCR! I hope its a Jv.... Magnavox" "Here's another! Maybe it will be a Panaso.... Magnavox" "Wow this one looks vintage could it be an RC.... Magnavox" lol it's insane how many Magnavox VCRs were sold...

The old VCR is better then the new ones

13:47 Sssssmokin'!

The Multi-Format panasonic probably converts the signal to PAL. You should be able to select the output standard in the menu.

The PAL VCR is likely outputting NTSC 4.43. Basically the color carrier is at the PAL frequency, not the standard 3.58Mhz of NTSC. Your capture cards should be able to decode it.

This was actually really satisfying to watch 😂 made it through to the end!

Don't just trash the non-working ones! Like others have said, the mode switch is likely the only fault with many of them. At least give them away to someone who might be interested in fixing them.

One thing you could do is with the VCRs that don't work properly is harvest the parts from the other machines that don't work to repair them. That's if the parts are compatible with the other machines and then you could get as many working as possible.

Lemme see if I can guess what's wrong with each VCR you showed! VCR 1, 2, 4, 11, 23, 24: Mode Switch VCR 3: I dunno, maybe alignment issues. Stumped on that one! Love the 5th VCR!! VCR 6, 10, 18, 22: Needs a belt. Wait Magnavox VCR/DVD combos weren't only made by Funai?! Looks like the 8th VCR could've been made by LG or something. VCR 12: That was hilarious😆😆 VCR 14 is most likely Orion made since they were rebadged Orion VCRs. VCR 16: Most likely needs a mode set on the remote. That is a keeper!! VCR 17: Maybe needs an alignment. VCR 18 can also be a Mode Switch VCR 21: Buttons need to be oxidized. Needs Deoxit. If that doesn't help, the buttons could have a bad solder joint. VCR 25: Not sure, maybe a bad pinch roller. Methinks that Mask tape needs to be trashed unless if you wanna keep that as a test tape for more of these.

14:38 That is gunk from the automatic "Head Cleaning" sponge, which in these Magnavox units is a small, round yellow sponge like roller which quickly taps the head (supposedly cleaning it a bit), before and after each tape insert. Over time, they degrade and fill with gunk, causing it to actually place dirt onto the head rather than cleaning it. Then, your tape goes around that head which got the gunk on it, making gunk go onto the tape.

On the back of a Panasonic VCR, should be a switch for PAL, NTSC and SECAM/MESECAM. Have a look, because this might be why the picture is in black and white and not colour.

I’m very lucky myself as I bought a VCR here in the UK from a charity store for dirt cheap and it works flawlessly - I’ve always owned LG players and was happy to see the charity shop one was an LG 4 head stereo machine with scart socket

32:00 I have that exact make & model of Sanyo VCR. That VCR was one of a very, VERY few VCR's that had a TVGuardian (TVG) foul language filter built into it! Nice that it works & that it has the original remote, box & manual with it! IMO, I wouldn't sell that one!

No, you definitely not throw away VCR players

@17:20 "Don't touch that... you don't know where it's been!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sometimes if only the remote is used and never the buttons the buttons tend to gather dust etc or static inside them which either makes them useless or hard to function

That Was Entertaining, at least some of them work so not a total loss, that double VCR player is cool! never seen one like that

I could not understand why the Panasonic units were not working. I can understand if the units were Sony, JVC or Mitsubishi though... 😏

cool lamp in da backround

Some of those VCRs are going 19:34 to need their mode switches cleaned and they will work just fine. For the PAL machine you might have to set it to ntsc.

I still have a Sony VHS bought many years ago that am using to digitise to some vhs picked up couple of years ago, also got a VHS to DVD machine that used few years ago to copy my own recorded VHS stuff

Those Sansui ones can die pretty badly I went through 2so my uncle could finalize dvds that Pal vcr is probably fine you may need a converter box for it some won't play on NTSC tvs I have a multystem in my room and a multi system flat pannel.

I had a Funai machine, it was with me for 15 years, the machine itself didn’t give out, the scart connector did, but by that time I was just hanging onto something I never used and I binned it. Still got my stash of vhs tapes in the loft though 😉

NEVER THROW AWAY VCRs OF ANY KIND reasons why, once these machines are gone there gone forever, they dont make them anymore. also -those vcrs are not broken, the servo control mode switch is dirty, super easy to fix. and a very common issue especially when vcrs sit for a long time. -not a head issue try the tracking knob and buttons not all vcrs have auto tracking plus some vcrs have a auto head cleaner and it gums up, removal is required, easy fix -rewind not broken, the machine is determining tape position so it can fast rewind or slow rewind. can also be a mode switch issue -the black and white is due to the vcr set into pal and not ntsc also beating a vcr is not going to fix it. eating of the tapes is due to a dirty mode switch or bad belt easy to fix mono vcrs are not crap there quite useful because most home video camcorders record in monaural audio I WANT ALL THOSE VCRS i can fix them all.

I bought the go video duel vcr for a 1000 dollars in 94 it beat the macrovision copy protected that was embedded in the rental tapes

24:39 good ol percussive maintenance

28:38. The Sansui seems shot, but it looks like it has the same osd as a Memorex vcr of mine. That makes sense, as Orion, Sansui, & Memorex occasionally made VCRs for each other in the 90s.

I sent my VCR to Lightning Fast VCR Repair. Been over a decade and it's still not fixed.

Man I'd love to dumpster dive at your place and pick up all those "broken ones" lol. I've been repairing and servicing VCRs for the past 15 years and I garentee majority of them just need the mode switch cleaned like the first one

19:33 That multi-standard VCR is probably stuck in PAL mode. You'll probably have to get the original remote, off of eBay, & use it to access the VCR's main menu to change that, unless the Picture Mode button, on the front, is supposed to change it.

13:47 that's what I call a hot tape

I thought I was crazy with my 7 or 8 VHS machines in the cellar.

Sure it's not the most exciting video but it is still interesting. That darn state farm commercial couldn't be placed at a worse spot. Just as the tape was ejecting there was Smoke. Boom here comes the commercial to interrupt the moment! Bummer! 😞 Otherwise a nice video. Your operating is pretty neat too! Now when folks ask me about transfers, I tell them about you!

Sansui seems to be a good brand. The monitor I'm watching this video on is a 19 inch Sansui flat screen TV and it was purchased back in the late 2000s and still works. I wish I could take all of those garbage VCRs off your hands but I'm not in FL. Would be cool if people could travel in dropships like in the movie Starship Troopers and just fly anywhere they want. I saw the macrovision in some of those shots of the TV it's the white bars above the picture, not normally seen.

that vcr has a power supply in it it just takes a sandard cord

All those cheap a$$ Funai mechanisms in those later models. I believe they were the very last company to make VCRs actually.

On the Panasonic Omnivision- Check the capacitors on the power supply board, chances are they will be leaking or will have leaked. Still a good VCR if caps replaced.

Just donated the broken Players to goodwill 😂

some go videos coudl copy protected movies but they don't have the VHS logo on it and it says epic hifi on it

I own the Sylvania tv/vcr combo seen in this video. Does the vcr part work on yours?

use ohter ones that dont work to fix them up

I guess the one with the european plug like output a PAL color signal or something, that's why it was black and white perhaps. if you don't have a PAL TV, maybe try it with a capture device and see if you get color switching to PAL mode and see what happens. And maybe someone else could make us of the ones not working!

Funai Emerson And other cheap VCR I won't trust them but theirs counterparts the vintage ones are pretty decent

That PAL VCR is B&W, because it's PAL and there is a little chance you can switch it to NTSC. You just need a PAL TV/Display.

All the VCRs I've been using for converting tapes came out of a dumpster with the exception of my original Funai that now likes to chew tapes. I only keep them as spares if they're fairly decent 4/6 head models.

I revived a couple early betamaxes last fall like 1976-77 early. I replaced all the belts in them (still need to replace idlers because one wont REW while another won’t FF). I enjoy playing old movies and tapes in my SL-8200 and get nostalgia for a time well over a decade before I was alive lol.

That smoke was all I was waiting on. Ha AH good one!!

There not making VCR's anymore and if you throw them out, that means there are that many less VCR's in the world to be put to good use. Somebody might be able to fix them and make them work properly if you cant with limited testing and cleaning. You got yours that you use for digitizing becuase someone did not throw them out, same with the cameras you use for digitizing.

7:07 that VCR is made by Panasonic, I have a GE 9-7500 it has the same VFD and the mechanism sounds exactly the same. It's from 1987, still works good as new!

I have a dual deck VCR same company and it can make commercial free copies and has commercial skip

in every piece of junk there is a little bit of gold, take it out and burn the rest😄

The pal vcr is black and white because you need to use rca with 5 cables

i liked the duble deck vcr

They all seem like easy fixes. I love the older style of that 2nd magnavox but those suck to work on

Top gang!

I would would sell the broken as parts or e-recycling over landfill

Just a tip, when testing VCR cover the top with something as with some models the light messes with the IR tape sensors

I love vcrs in my opinion you should try to at least sell or give away the ones that don't work especially the decent brands. There's certainly someone out there that will want them, amazingly my 1987 sears sr 3000 as well as built in vcr on my memorex crt (1998 I think ?) still work great and I haven't had to work on them

man if you were in melbourne australia i would have loved to repair those broken ones, i have a panasonic 4 head /dvd combo unit that im going to digitize some tapes with, i mainly do cassette decks but i like the VCRs too

Curious how you don't think it was a "total success" when you say you got it all for free and 11 of them work, including the boxed VCR with the remote? Free money is always a total success, no matter how much.

Do you still have some of those working VCRs?

Sansui been around since the 70's. My dad had a receiver from them way back when. I actually got it to work by buying a fuse for the receiver. It was an amazing experience. I did have a Sansui DVD player that filtered out curse words too!!!

Good for you! Whoo Hoo! Esp the 8mm stuff!

How do you not have scart in the USA? Best connector tor ever for vcrs

Rip the mask FR 😭😂

My grandparents had the jvc

Great content I must say, I have been enjoying. But do you not have a recycling depot near you? Trashing that much electronics just feels so bad

the one that has reverse as eject instead, i'd buy it, seriously but nothing expensive

Where to purchase these. vcr

super super

I saw those on marketplace!

A lot of those VCRS could be fixed and saved with just a good mode select switch and head cleaning.

Please tell me you didn't throw away that 1987 Panasonic-made Magnavox...

I have 4 of the go video combo vcrs. A dvd vhs combo, 8mm vhs cobo and two dual vhs ones. One of the dual vhs one's is the same as in your video and it will copy any vhs even ones with macrovision copywrite protection it does not remove the macrovision though it just duplicates the tape with the macrovision on the copy.

19:34 The TV must be PAL-N also

Paradise, thanks for sharing, best regards from Brazil !

Ooh noiice that Sansui is a dvd recorder also.

That RCA deck is actually a DVD recorder as well, probably why it needs a power cord hooked up to it!

Wow, you hit the mother load! I’ve heard of Sansui, I had one of their televisions.

Smoke comes out of the machine* yep it's working fine

When did they make the vhs dvd combo with hdmi? I found 2 of them that work perfectly.

VHS is all antique so it is capable of recording video of modern scenes

What kind of cassette is this

Lithium grease please

I didn't know that VHS is still athing , and friends say why am I keeping all those Multi system vhs units for what?

The oldest one in your 30 VCR lot is the 1987 Magnavox, which may be worth fixing.

Hey when ya cleaning your head fwiw is that just simple white blank printer paper? Or is it specific material? 15:11

Who woulda thought that the cheaper-brand VCRs would be some of the ones that still work the best, while the Magnavoxes etc. are in such rough shape. I guess the people who originally bought the pricier ones used the heck out of them while the people who bought the cheaper ones only used the a handful of times.

Some VCR's will not work properly with the lid off as the light sensor in them gets triggered so maybe that was the issue with some of them. Still, nice haul. Even though I will never need a VHS ever again, whenever I see them my nostalgia hits hard! I used to fix these things back in the 80's and 90's!I was surprised that you never tested out the DVD parts on the ones with DVD players/recorders as they are definitely more prone to going bad. And I think you should try and get them fixed. That maybe a lost cause. But then it's cost over profit I guess. The only other problem of course is no remotes. Most people want the remotes nowadays.

lucky they were free nice

The real victim here is the video cassette 😂

I used to have that Emerson (Made by Funai of course) a higher quality JVC replaced it

That is the exact Sansui Player I have, I got it for $4 n a yard sale 16:45

20:20 I have the same one only white

Ooh/*interest perks at 23:48 the discovery of "treasure"* :D wonder what legion is,

Only stereo VCR's worth to save!!

Cool i subscribed

Trash or treasure it's a really subjective question.

Ooh also keep those vfd/vacuum flouresence displays from the vcrs even if its a broken vcr for thsoe are fairky prettty imho but may even be sellable if in a set of vfds or miscellaneously on ebay.