I remember having a JVC VCR back in the day that could play both PAL & NTSC formats together with supporting HIFI stereo "surround" sound, and LP/EP speeds. It was a marvel at the time. But never heard of "VP". Thank you for sharing. Lost gem for sure from an end of an era.

I just picked up one at a thrift store today. Remote, sub and all speakers. Didn’t know about the VP play. The sticker said VHS didn’t work. It does though, you just need to hold up the dust lid when ejecting. Sweet surprise. Yes the cable goes to the sub woofer and the speakers connect to there etc. Thanks for the video.

All things considered, the VP quality really isn't that bad, the linear audio isn't as bad as I thought it would be except for the flutter which is off the charts

well. That actually looks quite a bit better than I expected.

I know this video is all about the VCR, which is fascinating, but I am intrigued by this thing's blocky look and the five DVD changer. I don't think I've seen a unit like it, to say nothing of the crazy record times.

Plug your camera on the VCR and record a clock for 16 hours.

22:19 I did not do a good job explaining that. Basically, the head is still spinning at the same speed, so each "field" worth of hi-fi audio is intact and played back at the same speed, but since the tape is moving past the head faster, you end up skipping past multiple fields worth of hi-fi audio. There's no buzzing because the tape is so dense with information, that if the tape moves slightly off one hi-fi track, it will find another. It ends up sounding like the fine-print disclaimer at the end of a drug ad of US television.

From what I remember, there are also 12 hour (T-240) VHS tapes, as well. They are very rare & could probably hold 24 hours of audio & video in VP mode.

For a long Hi-Fi audio tape that would be neat!

Very Good VHS good video and channel

I gotta say, I'm loving your channel.

Can I ask a question what happens if you try the Vp tape in a SP only VCR? Is it going to play super super speed up without color? I have tried a EP tape in a SP only VCR and it lost all color and it played super speed up, I cant try this unfourtnatly since the VP speed was never realesed in PAL, Also when playing around with the PAL EP speed I have relized that VCRs that support LP will try playing a PAL EP tape as LP tape and it will not lose the color like a SP only VCR

Awesome video thank you 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻What other VCR'S devices have VP OR SLP recording method?

19:08-19:38 Jon Hamm is pretty much illustrating the story of my life, even though I'm in my mid 30s whereas he's in his 50s. I feel like my youth is slowly dying, but there's still a part of me that doesn't feel that way. LOL Thus far, I only have one T-200 in my VHS collection. It's a Memorex T-200 and consists solely of an original broadcast of Boston Public on Fox (WJW in Cleveland) in 2003 with commercials, recorded in SP mode. Never rewound it after digitizing it just because I'm scared of the tape snapping.

I have a deck with VP- it can't even keep color locked in at that speed- however, the deck you have seems to work slightly better than mine.

21:54 is an issue that i have with a mono 2 head player (i assume that's what it is, since you mentioned that), i got a year ago (I'm from Australia btw) with LP/SLP tape! But I'm getting a better player, so everything be fine!

11:59 it said "looking for jet navigator data"

I have a universal remote which is actually the remote of a Videotron TV receiver which is a Quebec TV/Internet/Phone company. There is a booklet with codes to program it and I tried all the Panasonic DVD codes because I wanted to access the DVD menu. Many of the codes worked, but only with some functions, and the functions were not the same for each code, and none of the codes would have all the functions working.

E-300 tapes are 435 meters long giving a playing time of 5 hours in PAL-SP or 217 minutes in NTSC-SP, so they are slightly longer than T-200 who are only 410 meters.

We had Basf 5 hours / 300 minutes cassette, in SP rec in Europe

It is not just only Panasonic implemented the VP speed on VHS. I have the Mitsubishi HV-BX200 (MFD 2002) SVHS VCR at the side of the VFD display there is a speed setting of標準(SP) 3倍(EP)and lastly 5倍(VP). Surprisingly, Mitsubishi also implemented VP in SVHS Recording format. Although there are a lot of anomalies in the image quality and the pause is unstable since the higher bandwidth of S-VHS and the smaller video track with is very hard to read with regular sized video heads. Trick head is used but provides less worse image.

Impressive machine, any idea what year it was made? I’d guess around 2000.

I'm guessing a tape recorded at VP speed on this VCR couldn't be played on another VCR that doesn't have VP, right?

No offence meant but VP looks and sounds like that old 1980's VHS X- rated Cassette that went around the block too many times.

I always thought VHS tapes go as far as t-200 whch was 10 Hours in EP, never knew of all the years buying vhs tapes there was T-240 tape, never seen it in the store, never knew it existed, never heard of a VCR with a VP speed, I can remember the older VCRs from the 80s to early 90s the recording speeds were SP which is 2 hours, LP which was 4 hours, EP or SLP which was 6 hours. In the later years the VCRs did away with LP speeds, it just had SP and just EP or SLP, but never knew the much newer VCRs had VP speed, just thinking about it makes me wish, they never did away with VCRs.

20:04Left is VP, right is SP

hi i have a mate that uses the long play setting all the time i stopped using vhs deck along time ago only vhs thingi have is ADAT got one because i have alot of svhs tapes from a cable place in london was going to bin the lot 43min of audio 8 channels note the betacam sp is super format beware digi one's have alot of setting big time and the sound is mind blowing i not joking the db levels are like CD 4 channels as well i payed £100 i was lost for my words came with a pro tape that was recorded in a studio the 950 sony is juck my mate has one makes it look silly against betacam digi

11:51 I thought the subtitles said hub

Memorex also made a T-200 Vhs cassette ....