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arcadebroke · 1 day

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#betamax #sony #signage #logo #design #@bis80107146

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neondreams83 · 47 minutes

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#retro #vhs #vintage #80's #1980s #80s #eighties #betamax #neon #haze #fuzzy #tv #analog #night #danger zone #new retro wave

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eightiesfan · 1 month

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Sony Beta Pro HF3000 (1986)

#sony #betamax #1986 #vcr #80's #80's tech #vintage tech #80s tech #video cassette #vintage hifi #1980s #remote control #video editing #old tech #80s

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foone · 4 months

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Have you ever wondered what's the difference between a Beta and VHS tape? Like, physically? They're both half-inch (12.7mm) magnetic tapes, after all... and you can't exactly put a beta tape into a VHS VCR, or vice versa... but what if we opened up the cassettes and transplanted the tape between them?

So I opened the beta (left) and vhs (right) tapes

I wound the tape from the beta onto the VHS tape

I needed to unspool the old VHS tape, which is hard. this thing is nearly a half-kilometer long, about 1400 feet. So how do you do that? A POWER DRILL!

And I put it back together. And I stuck it in the VHS VCR, and hit play.

Well, it doesn't really show anything. The VHS VCR can't decode the Beta signal, because it's encoded differently. There's no sound, either.

But what about the tape? Is it similar enough to VHS tape that we could record onto it?

YEP! Without any issues.

I'd love to try the opposite way, but I don't have as many beta tapes to spare, and also my beta VCRs are barely functional as it is, they have trouble playing beta tapes, let alone VHS tapes in horrible hybrid forms.

#old media #vhs #beta #betamax

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yodaprod · 4 months

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