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Old 16-10-2010, 22:07
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...This bloke has them all! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw...ayer_embedded#!
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Old 16-10-2010, 23:57
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Well, what a ratty collection. Dirt, dust and bits missing. I have 12-15 and that is a small collection I suppose, but they were all repair projects and I had fun getting them going. As a thought, I reckon that his film is made at a duplicating house - they use banks of consumer VCR's.
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Old 17-10-2010, 00:35
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This guy is epic. 988 vids on YouTube.
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Old 17-10-2010, 03:49
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Old 17-10-2010, 09:12
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A PSU in the sink?!?

Here's the best thing about your old VHS deck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx-3...eature=related
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Old 17-10-2010, 13:06
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A PSU in the sink?!?

Here's the best thing about your old VHS deck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGx-3...eature=related
Those hack vids are great. Thx for posting the link
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Old 17-10-2010, 17:23
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Well, what a ratty collection. Dirt, dust and bits missing. I have 12-15 and that is a small collection I suppose, but they were all repair projects and I had fun getting them going. As a thought, I reckon that his film is made at a duplicating house - they use banks of consumer VCR's.
Never mind the state of the videos, look at his fookin' haircut
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Old 23-10-2010, 01:01
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I didn't watch it all the way, but from what I saw at the start (and other bits), his collection appears to consist entirely of run-of-the-mill consumer VHS models from the 1990s onwards.

No ten-ton top-loading early-80s models, no professional formats, no esoteric rarities from Japan, and no sign of any really early machines like the Philips model with the square cassettes (N1500/VCR IIRC) and mechanical clock which came out in *1972*.

Yeah, I'm enough of a geek that I might have found that mildly interesting, but this? Boring.
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Old 23-10-2010, 09:11
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I bought an ex-Visionhire Philips N1500 in 1979, it came with 3 tapes. It cost me £99! ( alot then). I had it until 1985, when I copied the tapes onto vhs.
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Old 23-10-2010, 13:51
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i seriously want that haircut, he must get all the chicks
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Old 23-10-2010, 23:11
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I bought an ex-Visionhire Philips N1500 in 1979, it came with 3 tapes. It cost me £99! ( a lot then).
According to this site, £99 in 1979 is £418 in today's money. I'd kind of agree with you that it sounds like a lot for a second hand machine that was already semi-obsolete, but I'm guessing it was still a *lot* cheaper than a new VHS or Beta would have been then...

And remember that when it first came out (according to Wikipedia), the N1500 cost £600 in 1972 money, the equivalent of over £6000 today!

I had it until 1985, when I copied the tapes onto vhs.
What happened to it?

I'd say it's a pity you didn't keep it (if you didn't), but 1985 itself was a quarter-century ago and it was probably just a dated and unreliable video recorder at that point, right?
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