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10-04-2007
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 Anyways, I do like the SL-F1UB kit, it's very compact (well, the camera's not!!)... 
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | Here's a clever american (hmm, there's two words you don't often see together!!!
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13-04-2007
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | I just found a PCM-F1 unit on Ebay 
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | Just won a pair of Sony Betamovie BMC-500's on Ebay
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18-04-2007
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | I got my two Betamovie cameras this morning, and one still had a tape & battery in it!!! Just need to try and get one powered to see if they work, but I need a 9.6V power supply (9 to 10v I'm sure is ok!!), but with a reversed polarity than is standard (Barrel plug with the pin being negative and the outer tube as positive), I may have blown the fuse which protects the camera(s), but fault that may only be linked to the BMC-100, but I haven't checked the fuse yet...
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18-04-2007
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19-04-2007
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! |
Anyway, I can't seem to get the repairs one to work properly, it doesn't want to power up, I can get it to power up but it doesn't work properly, so I'm a bit stuck... Anyway, the kit I bought is on it's way (the one in all the pictures I posted), so I'll be playing with that as soon as I get it...
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20-04-2007
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | There were some old 80's home videos on that tape including thier yachting holiday (must have been rich people!!!), but the colours were amazing compared to VHS (this is actually the first time I've ever watched a Betamax tape (that I can remember!!!))!!! But anyway, everything arrived, and unsurprisingly, the VHS recorder doesn't work properly!!! The Sony Betamax VCR works perfectly though, as does the camera, but there's no batteries for it though, plenty of batteries for the VHS recorder though... But I'm playing with the kit for as long as I can, whilst trying to see what's up with the VHS recorder (probably nackered belts)...
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26-04-2007
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26-04-2007
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My System: Motorised dish, dvd players and recorders; a freeview box, broadband, VCRs, four TVs, mobiles, pcs, a mac, Ipod, digital cameras...the lot! | It's rather old, about...3 years old? I don't think it will catch on. And yet they said that about telephones. Quote: "The need to speak to people over short and long distances will never replace human contact, literally seeing eye to eye..." Dr Rubin Swinzkurt 1876.
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26-04-2007
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! |
 As for that quote, well, we have things like MSN, ICQ and all that now!!!
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09-07-2007
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | Well, in addition to my 8mm stuff, I'm also getting a Sony BMC-100P Betamovie camera, possibly working too as the Ebay I like the shoulder strap that Sony put with the 100's and 200's...
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14-07-2007
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos I'm a lazy git. Porty dish face blew off the mount, not too pleased... The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | It arrived today with my 8mm Sony kit, and I can't power it up as I haven't got a decent ~9v PSU!!! I did get a bit of life out of it when trying one PSU but I think that PSU blew as all of a sudden it went from being 10v to 15v!!!
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25-07-2008
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My System: Trac 1.5m prime - Chaparral mech polarotor - SCT LNB. Humax 5400rx. Computers: HP T650 (P4 2.8 Northwood) PC, Mac Mini, Mac G3 | It was frequently argued that Betamax was better than VHS. The slightly higher tape to head speed did give a few more 'lines' resolution. The linear tape speed was slower than VHS and the track width narrower (33 microns against 49 microns) so there was a trade off in noise performance. Let's just say that a high end VHS machine would trounce a cheap Beta machine - and vice versa! The basic Beta wrap mechanism and cassette shell is indeed still alive and well in broadcast circles albeit with limited running times for the small cassette (30mins. for BetacamSP). I don't ever recall 2 inch Quad videotape ever being recovered from lofts or skips etc. - it's much too fraglie to cope with rough handling. Lost / found programmes are usually 16mm film. These film recordings were mainly produced for export (often b/w prints of colour programmes) and would come with both composite optical and separate magnetic soundtracks. Fortunately they tend to outlive the Quadruplex recordings, many of which were systematically wiped. I've screened quite a few 16mm transmission copies from the BBC archives and they look surprisingly good. I do have a copy of The Basil Brush Show (1972). Sadly - it's monochrome (originally colour) ! | ||
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25-07-2008
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