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Post by Troy Walters on Oct 28, 2004 7:01:33 GMT
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Post by William Martin on Oct 29, 2004 16:11:00 GMT
by the looks of them its 2 45 min and 2 30 min + 1 other I can't see so probably between 2 hrs 45 min and 3 hrs 15 mins worth lets hope it's not 3 hours of The Bill or something. ps is the seller known to anyone on this forum?
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Post by Stuart on Nov 2, 2004 17:01:38 GMT
Did someone from here win this auction (birdman1701)?
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Post by RWels on Nov 7, 2004 19:17:39 GMT
You'd have to be extremely lucky to find something usefull on it. Same goes for every old stack of tapes.
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Post by Gareth R on Nov 7, 2004 19:52:35 GMT
You'd have to be extremely lucky to find something usefull on it. Same goes for every old stack of tapes. You're not wrong there. Too many people forget that Philips VCR machines became absolutely dirt cheap in the mid-80s and hence lots of people bought them second- or third-hand and used the tapes over and over (and, because of their expense, the tapes will have been well-used already even if they *were* bought in the mid-70s). You're still *much* more likely to find late-80s programmes on a VCR tape than you are anything earlier.
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Post by RWels on Nov 8, 2004 22:10:10 GMT
These were the earliest tapes I know of. But you'd have to own a lot of stuff if you want to check old tapes. VCR, VCC (a.k.a. video 2000), betamax, video8, and I also belive at one time sony had a system on reels, like there used to be audio tape on reels. Not to mention possible PAL, NTSC, SECAM issues if you're researching foreign tapes.
I don't wont to be negative here. But I also wonder: how can you recognise something rare? If you don't catch a title, you don't know what you're watching.
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Post by Gary Critcher on Nov 11, 2004 23:21:09 GMT
WERE Phillips tapes around in 1972 anyway?? I have no idea when they came onto the market
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Post by Gareth R on Nov 12, 2004 10:11:49 GMT
WERE Phillips tapes around in 1972 anyway?? Yes. The N1500 went on sale to educational and corporate clients in late 1972, and was released to the general public in 1973.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Nov 12, 2004 10:33:34 GMT
These were the earliest tapes I know of. But you'd have to own a lot of stuff if you want to check old tapes. VCR, VCC (a.k.a. video 2000), betamax, video8, and I also belive at one time sony had a system on reels, like there used to be audio tape on reels. Not to mention possible PAL, NTSC, SECAM issues if you're researching foreign tapes. I don't wont to be negative here. But I also wonder: how can you recognise something rare? If you don't catch a title, you don't know what you're watching. There were even more different formats than those you mention too. Most were short-lived though; Sony (I believe it was made by them) also had a system using cartridge-type tapes in the late '60s, which was showed to me a few years ago now. If you have a general knowledge of what roughly survives in the various archives (via the Kal Guides etc) and a fan's knowledge of TV history, then you it isn't so hard making some kind of identification of a recording. You can probably narrow it down, certainly, by identifying whether it's film or VT, a rough date the recording was made, who's in it, the channel it was on if the end credits are present etc etc. From that you can have a fair idea if it has any rarity value at all.
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Post by RWels on Nov 12, 2004 12:41:35 GMT
Not to mention unrecordable formats such as CED, and other things that looked like laserdiscs, but weren't.
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Post by William Martin on Nov 12, 2004 15:57:25 GMT
There were even more different formats than those you mention too. Most were short-lived though; Sony (I believe it was made by them) also had a system using cartridge-type tapes in the late '60s, which was showed to me a few years ago now. If I think that would be the VP-1100 that went on general sale in 1971 but was first produced in 1969. If its the one I'm thinking of it is a top loader, twice the size of a n1500 and has about 20-30 buttons switches and knobs at the front.
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Post by RWels on Nov 13, 2004 20:43:39 GMT
And that was something different from the philips vcr? Because the descriptions sound very similar. The cartridge-like cassette and all that.
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Post by Laurence Piper on Nov 13, 2004 22:28:39 GMT
Yes, totally different to the Philips. Made around 1968, I believe, and very short-lived. Can't recall what the name / model was though.
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Post by Gary C on Nov 14, 2004 2:41:33 GMT
I certainly remember an open reel three quarter inch video recorder (Sony??) being used at school in about 1969, what I would have given to have been able to have taken it home & recorded a few things on it !!
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Post by RWels on Nov 14, 2004 18:28:22 GMT
That's very early indeed! I've seen one of those things only once.
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