Beautiful machine, I've always had a interest of electronics and audio/video equipment and I've never owned any Betamax's before. You are so lucky! Great find!

I love the CBS Special Presentation at the beginning.... : )

Man, that's one gorgeous Betamax.

Congratulations on your wonderful beta deck.

Ray, I’ve recently bought Sony EDV-5000 - my first Betamax machine! At last! Thinking now of buying the SL-HF3000 video recorder. The one isn’t in top cosmetical condition, but it works. I’m buying it mainly for sound recording.

Been hooked on that site, and every time a 1000D pops up on there, it goes into my bookmarks page. Man! Do I want a 1000D!!!

Sweet machine, congratulations and thanks for sharing the video with us.

Not an S video, control L for use with an edit controller. The T jack is for control T that connects 2 SL1000 or 3000

Because of these videos I have imported the SL-HF3000 from Japan 😃

FYI - The jacks marked "PCM" on the back are just regular video input/output jacks. The "PCM" designation is because you can connect them to a Sony PCM F1 device which turned analog audio into digital, and then into a video image which could be recorded on any video recorder (of course, it worked best on a Beta machine). The "S" jack is actually a "Control-S" connector for edit control between this unit and a Sony VHS machine (such as the SLV-R1000). And although this machine looks very nice, in 2015 I got a Sony SL-HF2100 in A+ refurbished condition. Although I miss some of the features from the SL-HF1000 (had three of them), the newer electronics in the 2100 really do seem to give a better picture.

You will notice the there is a button to turn the Beta Hi-Fi off. If you wonder why anyone would want to do that, it's because Sony never mentions in it's marketing materials that enabling Beta hi-fi audio reduces the video resolution because the audio FM carrier signals take away some of the bandwidth of the video. So although Betamax was sharper than VHS with hi-fi off, if you turn Beta hi-fi on, the picture quality is is noticeably fuzzier and becomes about the same as VHS. Great find thanks for posting the unboxing hope it still had that "new VCR" smell.

Love this machine! Unfortunately, only NTSC with 30 frames? Fortunately: a PAL version in my home: Sony SL-HF750… LOVE the format!

That's a wonderful machine, congratulations on such an awesome deal. Thanks for sharing this vid.

That is a beautiful thing, without a doubt.

Great machine,a jewel,with jogging button,de luxe player,no one Blu Ray of today has got that presence, take it care very much that awesome gadget.

Ray Glasser! Long time no see! xD That's the VCR I always have wanted! xD

you have got yourself a new subscriber my friend

Saya punya player sony betamax hifi seri SL HF 950 tapi saya juga suka yang model ini juga,modelnya keren 👍👍😊😊

Beautiful Machine!! ❤

Beautiful, here in Italy with the PAL system much higher than the NTSC the difference with the VHS was abysmal then the VHS prevailed.

That really is a beautiful machine. So I'm wondering now that it is 4 years later if it is still working well for you.

The S VIDEO port that you mentioned says ¨CONTROL¨in Japanese, probably for a wired remote.

I have 2 betamax edv 9000 one them came with the big remote it works and a broken sl2100 from japan (just wont play tapes) imported to Australia thinking of buying a sl-hf 3000 i have 5 PAL units as well they seem to cost more but have less features 4 hifi models and a broken C9 linear stereo

After seeing this video on youtube I went and bought one from onejp like yours! but unfortunately when I got it a couple of days ago and plugged it in it didn't work so I sent it to the repair shop and today they called to tell me that it seems that the shipment was dropped so bad that a lot of stuff is broken inside and they don't know if they can fix it... what a luck...!

Because this model made for only Japan market and not for export , it is designed to work only with 100 volt AC power. I wonder maybe brightness of display because of higher electricity voltage in US. 120 V.

What a nice machine!

With the streamlining that's common these days, something is lost as the old equipment is just beautiful to look at.

Just looking at the LED display brought childhood memories. Swell

5:19 i love this thing sliding out

Excellent machine.

Absolutely amazing and a big congratulations to you on the purchase. I have yet to see one on ebay. May I ask how you came by it? I love my SL HF900, but it is nowhere as nice as that 3000. I'd love to acquire one, one of these days! **Edit - just finished watching and saw that you shared the auction site. Thank you!

I Am Jealous...I Am A Beta Collector In The Uk And Would Kill For That Machine...The Best Unit I Have Is An SLHF-950.. Very Nice Ray!!!

can you find tapes for bata Max's anymore

one time when i had my betamax player that thing was so beat up but worked like new. (remoove the cover fist!)

Hello, It's amazing. I am happy with you. Could you fix the left wooden side? regards from Germany , Ronny

Amazing , congratulations

Did you plug in the Japanese plug into the American outlet?

What blows my mind is the "PCM" audio input/output! Where digital audio tracks a regular thing on Beta?

Hi Ray! did you sale your machine? please let know tanks

The picture looks amazing. I cant stand the digital imaging that is used on most TVs. The more high definition they are, the more processed and artificial it looks to me. The normal LCD TV picture looks fine to me, but the Ultra-HD images look terrible. And no, these are not the ramblings of an old man. I'm only 26. And yes, I do remember watching films on a Beta Max machine Young people sometimes have good taste, as well ;) I miss the pre-digital era, and I was only exposed to it just long enough to love it.

Hello I have a sony GCS 50 betamax machine. Where Can I get It repaired? Thanks Mark

That is proper cool!

hi vhs video star decks did have audio record in lp mode black video out put very hard to find pick one up at carboot

So cool.....Fan- Damn-Tastic!!!

Very cool!

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A beauty well done, is the data on a beta the same to what's on a vhs or does a beta read the tape in a different way so the tape info is different? P.S. is the remote still sealed in the bag or did you give in to temptation and start using it?

it can play PAL video tapes? or NTSC only?, I face big problem with japanese camcorder.

Súper buena máquina

Good for you, I am jealous; I wish I had one :(

Wow thats a great machine! Do you know the year of production?

i have this sony slhf-3000 very long time ago, it cost HK$3000 in the year of 1988, excellent machine and can record in B1s mode, but the maintain fee is fucking expensive! for the normal sony betamax vcr, it can quite cheap for repair as parts can obtain from sony, but this 3000 , sorry it is a production equipment, the parts was ten or fifteen times than normal

Compare this with the shit of feather weight bluray DVDs of today

I love betamax . Nostalegi ( from iran ) ❤❤❤😇😇

Шикарный аппарат!

were can you buy one of these betamax machines

$200 for shipping.....oh WOW!!! o_O

Wow that thing must've been hardly used!

Best Betamax = toshiba V-9680 pal/ntsc.

sorry betacam walk over this deck my mates got the same heads are soft in betamax decks betacam digi is real good 2 set of video heads try one some time

Beta is better good video

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This is called #JDM. This is why we prefer used JDM cars to new European or American ones.

Leaking personal information. You should delete the video immediately.

VHS is better ;D