Sony made them for Sanyo and Toshiba as well but afaik they did not use a trinitron tube they used conventional

It was as good as you could get unless you went with broadcast gear.

Nothing to agree about it was the first camcorder. I worked for Sony when it was released and borrowed a prototype that we had to record my first wedding of a friend.

@@12voltvids 😶

I think I now have pretty much all the tape formats

Could I ask? Did Beta write signals faster to tape than VHS.?

@@philipnelson8909 yes actually it did. The drum was larger so more tape wrapped around equaled higher writing speed. This is why betamax had a better picture than VHS. The only reason VHS won was because blockbuster chose vhs as the only format they would carry.

No they don't they're ni-cd batteries and they are all bad. I have a dozen of them to back this up. I also have s bunch of the original infolithium that all still work and one goes back to 90s keep them off the camera and chathe once a year and they are fine. The people that find their cells dead are those that left the battery attached to the camera for years and then wonder why it is dead and won't charge

Won't enter record till it warms up.

This one is certainly a keeper.

Considering that the tunnel is 1km ahead of the tunnel and there are only 2 exits and no entrance between the tunnel and bridge unless he dumped his load at the side of the road ....

​@@12voltvids Interesting, in that case based on the footage @13:25 (you can clearly see the exact location where the the dump bed has been hit in respect to the height of the concrete trusses) the telescopic cylinder might have accidentally been lifted when the truck approached the bridge. Alright, next time I'll comment on actual electronics ;)

@@exorbis9880 well that overpass is out of commission for probably 3 - 4 months requiring a 30 minute detour for everyone that lives in the other side and for people leaving the big casino right next to it.

Went over that on the gcs1 overhaul last month.

Yes I explain how the time compression non standard video signal worked on the previous GCS1 Betamovie video i did a few weeks ago. They speed up the video signal and speed the drum up from 1800 to 2500 rpm but the tape speed is the same. When played back on standatd equipment the video signal returns to normal. Very cleaver design to make the drum smaller. Down side it it is record only bit nobody cares because the super8 camera if was replacing had to send film away for processing.

That is really some impressive engineering for the time. At the time, I was working as a maintenance tech at a TV station. We used quadruplex tape format, 2", 15ips tape for broadcast. I thought that Beta or VHS was quite a marvel in that they got any type of useable video at such a slow tape speed. Thanks for your videos, they are always quite interesting.

I was working for Sony when this one came out. I borrowed one to shoot a friend's wedding. Always wanted one.

School sports day. Back in the 80s yes. Now it's activity day and everyone gets a ribbon because coming in 1st 2nd and 3rd leaves everyone else all depressed and needing drugs to cope.

The hum went away. I don't see any problems with it other than dropouts on 40 year old tapes lol.

winner winner chicken dinner.

It is a true sign wave inverter.

Possibly a worn belt

That's not what happened here. This overpass is 4.6 metres high. It follows a tunnel that is 4.15 metres high. The truck had already gone through the tunnel as there is no on ramp. So what does that tell. Either the trucker was high and started raising his box or there was mechanical failure and the box started going up. Never the less there are alarms and lights to warn the driver that his box is up. The only other way he could have gotten on too high was to have been heading west and wanting to go south to the dump. Had he gone over the overpass and taken the on ramp he would have hit on the curb lane. He hit on the right through lane. He could have taken the north bound lane and flipped a u turn at the tunnel. There is a u turn route over the tunnel for emergency vehicles only with do not enter signs all over it and a big fine if caught. That's the only way he could get on the highway. Unless he entered from river road using the south bound exit ramp. I wouldn't put anything past these cowboys. I deal with ignorant assole truckers every day. Gave one the bird yesterday because he was going 75 on an 80 zone in the left lane passing another truck. Just like in the video I posted last year about the 2 trying to pass and of course asshole number 2 in the right lane floors it because he doesn't want aashat 1 in the left passing him. There are so many truckers that I question their qualifications. My father in-law would be spinning in his grave if he could see the batch of cowboys on the road these days. He was a professional truckers back when they were professional drivers. These days they are just a step up from taxi drivers.

6x glass on this one.

Those sp tapes can only be used on BETACAM SP, SX and ED Beta. They are metal tapes and if put in standard home betamax will eat the heads.

It can be if bright enough. High intensity lights or catching the sun can destroy them instantly. Also lasers will kill the tube in an instant.

Always a pleasure to see another great camcorder coming back to life. 40 years old and it still performs great. Video joy and gem! Cheers 🇵🇹

Except that electronics went down not up.

@@12voltvids Yeah, that's true I didn't think about that.

The reason it doesn't play is because they designed it with a very small head drum. Beta had a relatively large head drum that would have made for a huge camera. They designed it with a small drum with a single head and modified the video signal to a non standard video signal, non standard frequencies to record on this time compressed transport. To play back a modified tv was required. The beauty is when the tape is put in a beta VCR the signal becomes standard. It was engineering at it's finest. You have to appreciate that. Besides if you were shooting movie film you couldn't rewind. You didn't see your pictures till the film came back from the lab. Betamovie started the camcorder revolution.