Betamovie: Sony's Terrible (But Ingenious) Camcorder

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Oh man, did this not go well for Sony. Sometimes clever engineering can really backfire, as was the case for Betamovie. Let’s learn a bit about it.
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@OldManTheseDays 5 лет назад

Reminds me of the Onion article “Sony releases new piece of s-t product that doesn’t do what it’s f-king supposed to do”

@TH3C001 4 года назад

God, that was my favorite onion video all those years back, it's probably the tenth video I ever favorited on RU-vid lol.

@mrknowie 4 года назад

"It never ends this s--t"

@pojcharapoltosukowong 4 года назад

VHS player head: Your turn - My turn - Your turn - My Turn VHS recorder head: HOT POTATO! HOT POTATO! HOT POTATO! HOT POTATO! That small clip makes me laugh non-stop XD

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

The player head & recorder head are the same thing. Perhaps you meant VCR head and Camcorder head

@CptJistuce 3 года назад

I just realized that the Betamovie-recorded footage in this episode is where the bloopers normally go. Almost like Betamovie IS the blooper.

@Highchurch 2 года назад

If you think about it we're all the blooper 😳

@pdawg1555 Год назад

If it has beta in it, you're probably right

@onyx8231 5 лет назад

To adapt to the true video recording behavior of the time, you have to *zoom all the way in* on something and then just forget that it's recording all together. Just walk around with it with it still *zoomed all the way in.* Ultimately, shaky zoomed in video of the ground was the vertical video of yesteryear.

@nccrawford 4 года назад

Remember some early cameras had to have the record button pressed and held, and then others were start/stop buttons. 30 or 35 years ago I was struggling trying to figure out which did what! I had a Fischer or JVC VHS/C "camcorder" that blew everything else out of the water in 1985... I even hooked it up to record NFL games off UHF back then because the slow-motion was so good! What a trip down memory lane. Be well.

@LASR71 4 года назад

You forgot the "READ EVERYTHING" technique my father used. Instead of getting a general view of a sign, he used to zoom to the nth degree and go line by line, from left to right, similarly as how any person reads. Made you dizzy as hell, lol

@thomasw4422 2 года назад

I saw some of my grandpa's old footage. He just kinda looked around with it, rather than composed shots. But I didn't mind, at the end of the day it was nice to have.

@Sahuagin 2 года назад

when I was like 12 I recorded some footage for a teacher of a children's event (a race of some kind). I had no idea what I was doing and yeah, that's how it turned out, super zoomed and unwatchable... 8( The lady was not very nice about it unfortunately since she lost having a good record of that event, but it's not like I could have done better. (it was a good lesson though that some things are more complicated than they seem.)

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

You should have zoomed out

@SomeBlokeOrWhatever 3 года назад

I love how Beta did all sorts of engineering trickery to achieve its things, whereas the VHS solution to pretty much everything was just "MOAR HEAD". And it worked a charm nonetheless. It's like watching an Adeptus Mechanicus get consistently outwitted by an Ork. I love it.

@YouTubestopsharingmyrealname 5 лет назад

That little audio gap in the music to help illustrate the over sampling/ tape gap workaround, was absolute genius! Awesome Idea!

@Musicsification 5 лет назад

Genius indeed...and funny too!

@endrankluvsda4loko172 5 лет назад

Yeah that was a super cool way to show how it all works!

@LawrenceJohnYoung 5 лет назад

"it's really well made and executed, but also a bad idea" That pretty much describes every Sony flop ever.

@ark_knight 4 года назад

PS Vita would like to have a word with you.

@LawrenceJohnYoung 4 года назад

@@ark_knight well made flop describes the Vita perfectly

@ark_knight 4 года назад

@@LawrenceJohnYoung But Vita was not a bad idea. that's the point. It was better in every way. Just not supported.

@DonVigaDeFierro 4 года назад

@@ark_knight Yep. That's the thing flops are made of...

@Blendedasian 4 года назад

Even some of their successes are bad ideas. See PS2, PS3 (Nightmare for game developers) And Vaio P (deluxe netbook that is still as crappy as any netbook)

@redsquirrelftw 4 года назад

Oh man those Magnavox camcorders are a classic. My grandpa had one and it was kinda a big deal. "Ask grandpa if he can help you with that project he has a camera you'll get a really good grade if you go all out like that!" Actually he was a genius with that thing. He made power point presentations on VHS before powerpoint was even a thing. He would aim it on a table and put pictures and then hit record and then pause and basically make full blown slide shows with effects and everything by dimming the light. It's so easy now with everything digital we forget to appreciate what things were like before.

@AureliusR Год назад

Just want to point out that PowerPoint is just a digital slideshow, and slideshows were around *long* before VHS.

@StAlchemyst 5 лет назад

That recording at the end. IT's like a time traveler from the 80's brought his camcorder to record his "trip to 2018!" lols

@MattMcIrvin 4 года назад

You know, the fact that Marty's then-contemporary video camera can actually be hooked up to Doc's TV in 1955 makes "Back to the Future" quite the period piece now.

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

Why? The videocamera probably had an RF output (standard in 1985) for connecting to TVs

@pikgears 2 года назад

in a relatively short amount of time, new video cameras went from being pretty easy to hook up to old TV's to pretty difficult. I assume that's what OP is talking about

@JBaughb Год назад

@@electrictroy2010 Old comment ik, but out of curiosity I looked it up. That model camera had composite standard which first arrived on TVs in 1956 (so close), but there was a separate RF modulator available for purchase which would allow it to interface with probably just about every TV made in the 50s. I guess its lucky that Marty purchased that extra accessory.

@simonro9168 Год назад

Depending on what tech you have available, you may be able to hook up a ten year old digital camera to Doc's TV. My mom's relatively new point-and-shoot came with an adapter cable for composite video, I believe. So all you'd need is an RF modulator, and it should be a signal that can be passed into the antenna terminals of the 50s tv.

@snap_oversteer Год назад

@@JBaughb You can mod any TV that accepts analog RF to display composite video, it's the same signal, just demodulated. But on the older tube sets you need to have it isolated as they usually were hot chassis (ie. no transformer). So it's totally doable in the 1950s, but he'd have to know the signal level and such., but that can be measured with an oscillscope etc.

@nliberty 5 лет назад

22:43 best eject mechanism *ever* Edit: Legend says that Sony especially designed them like this so the tape could be damaged, leaving the only choice for the consumer; -switching to VHS- buying more blank tapes.

@user-ld4qt6ci7b 3 года назад

ya yeeeeeeeeeeeet

@user2C47 3 года назад

Only seriously bad when there is a T reel fault.

@falcoperegrinus82 3 года назад

"Take your damn video and get the hell outta here"

@xander1052 2 года назад

I mean, it's good on Sony to make their systems help you get a VHS VCR.

@natebrooks774 4 года назад

Man I had a really hard time keeping my internal clock in 2020 while watching the recordings at the end. I kept on thinking we were watching a home movie from the 1980s. I think the largest factor was the noises the machine makes (the constant whirring of the motors and the iconic popping made for some reason).

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

1980s video but with modern cars ;-) Here’s something trippy: I record high definition television with a VHS VCR. It’s blurry.

@garrymullins Год назад

Same

@Jackoe69 5 лет назад

my parents had one of these on a tripod in their bedroom when i was growing up.

@cw8537 5 лет назад

And how many therapists did you end up going to?

@charlescampuz5812 5 лет назад

“Gee, I wonder why...”

@deadsi 5 лет назад

Wasn't as easy to figure this stuff out before the Internet

@skmetal7 4 года назад

home movies.

@Ballowax 4 года назад

I dont think your parents wanted you seeing what was on those tapes

@Dsdcain 5 лет назад

So that's what everyone uses to record UFOs and Bigfoot sightings. I get it now. *:-)*

@RCAvhstape 5 лет назад

Nah, they used Super 8 film.

@tiberiu_nicolae 5 лет назад

Bigfoot IS blurry

@Dracopol 5 лет назад

The blurrier, the more believable! In-focus trash-can lids suspended by fishing line would be ruled as fake for some reason.

@synthoelectro 5 лет назад

don't forget ghosts and demons. Hey people we have 10 mega pixel cameras now, why aren't you using them :P

@davidbjork5063 5 лет назад

So true, but still our modern cameras are too bad when dark. Then the zoom is digital in most devices as cellphones. Digital zoom = Crappy image. So 4k camera are not 4k when zooming (if you not have a more expensive device that most people not own).

@heindeljify 2 года назад

It really feels like going back in time watching the raw footage at the end. Much more so than any “retro filter” added digitally.

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

Here’s something trippy: I record high definition television with a VHS VCR. It’s blurry.

@pek5117 5 лет назад

Damn that VHS-C loading into the larger cassette was satisfying

@gnormous0805 5 лет назад

"Let's get a closeup on those flowers" WHHHHHZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ lol

@thephoenixedits7213 5 лет назад

@Zak Giffgaff c'mon man. That's not nice.

@pacman10182 4 года назад

@@thephoenixedits7213 yeah, thats clearly koko

@Shnick 4 года назад

Plant dies as we wait for the zoom to get done...

@rexellate 4 года назад

Classic zooming sounds

@ploed 2 года назад

Good thing, it has a record time of 3 Hours.

@zyxwvut4740 5 лет назад

6:12 _[Banjoey country music which abruptly stops each time the head passes the gap]_ This is one of the funnier closed captions I have seen in a while, lol.

@veggiet2009 5 лет назад

I love your "80s Home Movie" voice! "Let's go this way...." ha!

@gblaze420 5 лет назад

veggiet2009 just missing uncle Terry at Jimmy’s birthday party

@ebnertra0004 3 года назад

Yeah, he was dead-on with that. The roaring 645 or whatever Metra has in those things was pretty great, too

@Hansengineering 4 года назад

I LOVE how in the Beta shot footage the bloom and the scanning artifacts and soft focus everywhere are so recognizably _real_, where when people put them in digitally with Snap or whatever, they look SO FAKE!

@nikkiofthevalley 2 года назад

Because they overdo it. The way the "VHS effect" (as it's called) was done, is they took VCRs at differing levels of damage, and used a ton of those to create a digital effect. (I'm very much oversimplifying. It's much more complex than that.) There's many options, and most people who use the effect have no idea what they do. So they just crank up the damage slider. There's also options for fully realistic effects for a well taken care of VCR, (I'm very much oversimplifying, but there's so many settings it'd take me hours just to type) but nobody uses those because it doesn't look poor quality enough.

@Slash0mega 5 лет назад

"Ohh, lens flair! I probably shouln't be looking at the sun..." why, its through the view.... oh ya, its a pass through lens, you where essentially looking at the sun with a telescope....

@tylerpeterson4726 5 лет назад

I didn’t even think of that! I thought he was just worried about burning out a sensor.

@johnfrancisdoe1563 5 лет назад

Tyler Peterson He was, but it's a really expensive one to replace, even though he got the old one for free.

@Anvilshock 4 года назад

*flare

@spadekersey4102 4 года назад

@@Anvilshock **flail. Like a sunfish.

@KylesDigitalLab 4 года назад

And it's a Vidicon tube, so he's lucky he didn't damage the tube by doing that.

@vwestlife 5 лет назад

The first Sony Handycam in 1985 repeated the same mistakes, except even worse. It was also a record-only device, and instead of a through-the-lens viewfinder, its viewfinder was simply a hole you look through, so it gave you no indication of focusing. And Video8 was a new format at the time, so almost no one had an existing VCR for it yet, unlike Beta's eight-year head-start before the BetaMovie arrived. In fact, it's quite remarkable that Video8 didn't become yet another failed format, but I guess after losing the biggest format war in history, Sony was stubborn and unwilling to concede defeat again, so they kept on making Video8, Hi8, and Digital8 camcorders (obviously with much improved functionality over the years) all the way until the very end of the analog video era in 2007.

@Myrtone 5 лет назад

Regarding 9:27 If you think about it, a movie camera that records on film also can't replay the motion picture. As for 10:14, again, movie cameras don't have electronic viewfinders or an equivalent. The Betamovie viewfinder doesn't seem much different from those of cameras that record on film.

@barebarekun161 5 лет назад

Hey at least it have much better build quality than today's Sony 4K Handycam. There's a reason Japanese rather rent the 4K camera instead of buy one,the price are still too high for what they get. And they actually did sell the CCD-M8 with video 8 player alongside it. And if you want the camcorder with playback features then you have to get the CCD-V8 instead both models' accessories (not all) are interchangeable both released in the same year. V8 is shoulder mounted prosumer model while M8 is for casual uses they have to shrunk M8 down to make it portable "Handycam" even if it meant it lost the playback features. Some people still use V8 model to play their older video 8 tapes since the camcorder itself proved to be built better than its 8mm tape players themselves. I have both models but the tape motors just died on me but its original batteries still hold charge.

@Dracopol 5 лет назад

Analog video! Long may it rust!

@Myrtone 5 лет назад

The better the equipment used for recording sound electrically onto an analog medium, and the better the playback equipment, the better the quality of the reproduced sound. Is there anyone else here who wishes analog video worked like that?

@coydog7902 5 лет назад

The analog era ended in 2009

@johnfrancisdoe1563 5 лет назад

I think the head time compression trick is much more easily explained with paper. There's this nice gap at the top and bottom and the betamovie mechanism is like a printer that needs some blank space between pages. But instead of clipping out a few lines of each page, they just set the printer to work like the paper was bigger, printing the nothing onto thin air.

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

Excellent analogy. So basically you have an 8x11 paper. The recording printer operated as if the paper was 8x12. The last inch was printed on nothing, but the paper still looked okay when viewed by the customer.

@marsm9 4 года назад

I honestly love the "patina" that these videos have to them. Feels like being in the past, watching them.

@asnowballinhell 4 года назад

It would actually be cool to use one in 2020 to film something with a retro vibe to it.

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

Which of course Hollywood directors do

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

You can recreate the VHS look simply be feeding a Bluray output through a Composite or RF cable. Those cables add blur & analog interference

@kargaroc386 Год назад

@@electrictroy2010 You would get roughly DVD quality by doing this, and VHS/Beta was actually *way worse* than even that.

@xmlthegreat 5 лет назад

Holy duck, the end clip is literally indistinguishable from an old timey home video! Ah it takes me back. I have used MiniDV tapes so it's all pretty noatalgic.

@Zerinsakech 5 лет назад

MiniDV? more like, Hi8 and VHS-C! Still it does feel like old home movies alright. It sure brought back a smile.

@NJ-wb1cz 5 лет назад

MiniDV is no different from a memory card or flash drive, other than having slower seek times and a bit higher error rate (but no sudden catastrophical failures like on flash drives). It's just another completely interchangeable digital storage medium. Video quality during MiniDV era was limited by extremely crappy processors which couldn't do complex algorithms in real time. But the tapes themselves were actually comparable to BluRay with regards to capacity and linear read speed. In principle, nothing is stopping anyone from creating a 4k MiniDV camcorder that will be on par with modern ones with regards to quality, other than impracticality.

@deathstrike 4 года назад

I like the old Sony 8mm and Hi8 format. I know they are quirky as hell, the playback deck is overpriced, and the whole format lost to VHS-C from JVC. Seems to me though, if there was just a bit more space in that Betacam he showed, it should be possible to design a small digital circuit to capture the incoming feed from the camcorder's lens and recompile the image back to the 15.7Hz for playback via the viewfinder. That makes for a good experiment! Thanks for a great video and hopefully a fruitful experiment!!

@DanStaal 4 года назад

The section in the parking lot was making my head hurt for a moment until I realized the problem: The cars didn't look right. *Because they were to new.*

@electrictroy2010 2 года назад

Here’s something trippy: I record high definition television with a VHS VCR. It’s blurry.

@CoolerQ 5 лет назад

It's amazing how you can shoot footage in 2018 and it looks like it was shot in the 80s just because of the camera you chose!

@RayEttler 5 лет назад

Quentin Smith no shit sherlock!

@Patrick_AUBRY 5 лет назад

And when you watch restored and regraded 35mm film in HD... It looks like it was filmed yesterday but the world has lost the lust of its tech.

@Teraforce88 5 лет назад

About 10 years ago, I took a picture of an LCD monitor with an early-60s Polaroid J66 camera that still had some Type 47 film in it. Type 47 hasn't been made since 1991. The film was still good, amazingly enough. The picture was kind of crappy, but it was kind of weird seeing an LCD monitor on a Polaroid image that's mostly associated witht eh 50s and 60s...

@weblure 5 лет назад

It was really bizarre seeing a modern FedEx truck in a video that looked like it was from the 80's Now I wanna see more modern things recorded on really old cameras

@UNSCPILOT 5 лет назад

It would be kinda funny if someone took a 80's era camera on the #dearmoon mission just to demonstrate what a moon mission would have looked like in the 80's if the space programs hadn't gotten huge budget cuts, hck, according to some of the stuff from the apollo era we would have been on mars by now

@ericeaton2386 3 года назад

The recording at the end was the highlight for me. It evoked some strange feelings. At first it was like being in a horror movie, but then it was like time traveling to the 80s, but then it was just geeky. Two thumbs up.

@pamdemonia 2 года назад

At NYU in the 80s we used the predecessor to those for our portable video projects. They had a big recorder device and this ridiculously small and light (and hard to control) camera part that was attached via a cable. The camera was truly amazing as it had possibly the first consumer CCDs, so no burn in possible by us novices. They were also good for our purpose as they could record on Beta 1 speed which meant it was actually compatible with the Sony RM-440 and RM-450 off-line editing controllers and thus we could do insert editing (editing over a pre-recorded "black" signal that had a continuous time code making cuts not glitch and allowed separate audio editing). While it was good for school, it also means I haven't see my actually not terrible artsy videos I made when I was 20! I know no one is probably reading this, but if you do, thanks for letting me go on and on. Have a good rest of your day!

@smallmoneysalvia 5 лет назад

I’m surprised sony didn’t just overdrive a mini CRT to show live output from the tape head. It must lose a fair amount of light with the prism setup, too. I am impressed with the video quality though, it’s pretty darn sharp when you focus.

@TechnologyConnections 5 лет назад

That's a great point! I never even realized that was an option. My guess is that they were concerned about cost and the benefit wouldn't have been too great anyway. You still wouldn't be able to dub tapes with it. In my mind it seems like the one-head ordeal was probably more cost-saving than anything. I see no technical reason why they couldn't have gone with the VHS setup.

@mspysu79 5 лет назад

later Betamovies, like the BMC-550 from 1985 had an electronic viewfinder, autofocus and a CCD image sensor, they also recorded either SuperBetamax (high Band Beta) or standard Beta. The BMC-1000 form 1986 also added HiFi stereo audio recording as well as Super High Band capability.

@Stoney3K 5 лет назад

The fact that they used a 625 line scan rate makes me suspect they used the same imaging tube in the NTSC version as in the PAL version. However, it does mean the imaging tube had to be overscanned even more if you wanted to record PAL, unless the number of lines on a PAL tape is the same as on an NTSC one.

@MrHack4never 5 лет назад

Stoney3K it isn't, PAL is 625 lines whether it's broadcast, VHS or discovision and its successors EDIT: reworded

@Stoney3K 5 лет назад

That's why I suspected a PAL tube or PAL circuitry was somehow used, and perhaps the PAL version of the machine uses the system either without overscan, or at a different field rate. PAL may be 625 lines but I don't know how many actual lines are recorded on a PAL Beta tape. As long as the gap in the tape stays within the vertical blanking interval, the recording should be good.

@NeverlandSystemZor 5 лет назад

That gap-speed trick is actually ingenious, even if limited in use (only recording). Amazing the ingenuity of people.

@saeklin 3 года назад

"""You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretsky" - Michael Scott" - Sony

@kriswingert1662 5 лет назад

Fun Fact: The Magnavox camcorder in the video is a re-badged Panasonic. Huge giveaway was the part number on top of the video head assembly PCB, the battery pack and the charger. A correction for you: the multi-pin cable does NOT carry an rf signal for the 75 ohm CATV lugs. It has 2 voltages, video and audio and a control signal. The rf is done on the battery charger itself. Like all your videos, you get most of it right and miss other details. I used to repair all but the Beta cam you had there ( goes for a lot of things you show). In most pro cameras, T would stand for Tally, as there is a tally light on all camcorders to indicate it is recording. Most pro video cameras of the day also used Nuvicon tubes as an imager before the CCD chip devices came along, so this cam was designed on the end of that era ( another nail in the coffin for it).

@TechnologyConnections 5 лет назад

Just to be clear, here--the issues with the Betamovie aren't really related to the fact that it makes Beta tapes. Most of its flaws have nothing to do with the format and everything to do with its design. I'd come to the same conclusions regarding the BMC-110 even if I were comparing it against a theoretical 4-head Beta camcorder with full-playback capabilities and an electronic viewfinder. The problem isn't that it's Beta, it's everything else. Still, for Sony to release this product with Betamax already struggling is a little puzzling, at least to me.

@MrWombatty 5 лет назад

More recording-heads would certainly have solved the problem (are those flashes across the image the result?), but that would've meant cramming more circuitry inside, & of course higher production costs!

@LarryWheelerShowRunner 5 лет назад

Loved this video! I have a BMC-100 (The PAL version, i love the lower model #) right alongside the JVC (GR-C1U) and both were incredible. I personally think the design itself was rushed to get it to market before VHS made its play. For May 1983, this was incredible. My dad had the video camera with luggable recorder combo back in the early eighties. The VCR itself had to have been several pounds! This one-piece design was pretty substantial innovation. This being the first one in history, it certainly had its limitations, but started a consumer revolution that shouldn't be forgotten. This was pretty awesome tech for 1983. Good video!

@pancudowny 5 лет назад

RCA has done worse with the CRD Videodisc format... First by holding back development, just to play "wait-&-see" with the success of Phillips far-superior Laserdisc format, then bothering to develop a second-generation machine to be competitive with Laserdisc... after it obviously already lost to both it AND videotape. The latter of which basically helped put the company "under".

@pancudowny 5 лет назад

Maxx Fordham! Must the whole "royalties for licensing of format" thing come-up again? Or the total recording/play-time difference need discussion as well? How about that most consumers couldn't tell the difference in performance for the cost, which was substantial at the time? Or how most movie studios weren't willing to go with the first point I made?

@villipend 5 лет назад

I'm thinking the executives told the engineers "build it at this size and for this price and have it ready by this date" so they did what they were told.

@YotaNinja 5 лет назад

Sorry to hear about your softball game, Jimmy.

@kingsford3657 5 лет назад

Little Jimmy switched to soccer, scored a goal for the other team, and swore off sports for the rest of his life.

@brickman409 5 лет назад

That part sounded kind of personal lol

@Jimmyjsegram 5 лет назад

Don't worry, I'll try to improve for the next one😉

@locke103 4 года назад

@@Jimmyjsegram please do, we're getting real tired of your underwhelming prowess.

@KBTime 4 года назад

The entire section explaining the headgap - the graphics, closeups, audio - were all first-rate! Best explanation I’ve ever seen of how that works. Thank you! Also I laughed out loud at “super unique.”

@dil6969 5 лет назад

It gives you an appreciation of how far we've come technologically. My $600 phone just happens to have a camera that can record 4K video at 60FPS, while also being a powerful pocket computer. We truly are living in the future.

@williamreid6255 2 года назад

Except we’re still having to deal with bricks of phones, and shitty under-screen cameras (at least on the Galaxy ZFold 3). I hope one day we’ll be watching video on holographic screens made of light (look up the first clip of the Axiom from _WALL-E_ if you don’t know what I’m talking about)

@Xnoob545 Год назад

@@williamreid6255 > Shitty under screen cameras Wait, you're telling me, you have a high resolution screen, and no buttons, because the screen can feel your touch, AND ALSO a tiny camera that can produce better quality than VHS, that also is UNDER THE SCREEN? and you're telling me this is an issue?

@williamreid6255 Год назад

@@Xnoob545 That isn’t what I was saying, I was just making a comparison between the other person’s comment and mine. I just have trouble explaining things sometimes.

@Mikexception Год назад

In my view digital phone 4K conviniency do not come for free. 4K needs so much digital data that fast moving objects cannot be followed by eye with comfort . My personal choice with camcorders still is HI8 because in phone with hand operation and zoomed objects 4Kmay be only seldom admired while with Hi8 it is comfortably fluent, Sure in many cases like low light supremacy of digital is obvious. 4K is a must for digital zooming which is is not important while having Hi8 optical zooming. I filmed my trips 30 years ago with standard 8 camcorder technology and now played with better cam it is even better than at time with stereo sound How would I find my movies in phone or cards after 30 years when technology runs forward, cards format changed few times and HD capacity and plugs excluded old ones from use? It requires remebering to make new copies but who cares?

@DDVF 5 лет назад

Great video. We still have people argue with us at the store that there was an adapter for Video8 tapes. We tell them that was only for VHS-C yet they still argue. Never gets old.

@AtheistOrphan 5 лет назад

DDVF - Same here!

@theraque1 4 года назад

What store is this?

@jackthorton10 4 года назад

It seems like the days of a chemical in the VHS have not disappeared yet, but I am still talked about in earnest or outside sources

@alexs3187 3 года назад

I remember customers asking for it. I still had to advise customers Video 8 and Hi-8 were better formats than VHS-C and S-VHS-C.

@devttyUSB0 5 лет назад

You know... "T" for Record. Heheheh. Thanks for this in depth video!

@devttyUSB0 5 лет назад

nice, you can hear the zoom-motors go *WRRRRRRRRR* in that end-section :) great video. thanks again.

@kriswingert1662 5 лет назад

T stands for Tally, as in Tally lamp. This indicates it is recording.

@ironcito1101 5 лет назад

It means "tape run", according to 11:04

@kriswingert1662 5 лет назад

@surfitlive And that would be me. I currently use JVC Pro-hd cams and have used SONY and Canon in the past. The tally lamp was just so you could see it was in the record mode/recording.

@kriswingert1662 5 лет назад

@@hmartim T is for tally, as in the tally lamp that indicates the unit is recording. These are usually on the front of all cams for this purpose and came from studio cameras so the "talent" would know they were on camera broadcasting.

@thetruthexperiment 4 года назад

1:29 check out the “3D” rig at #4. Can you imagine crappy 3D video. It would be awesome.

@CallinWire 4 года назад

20:00 "sound of locomotive" Me: "Haha yeah that thing is loud." *sees locomotive in background* Me: "Oh that wasn't a joke."

@mattwolf7698 5 лет назад

I think it would be fun to walk around in public with a Beta recorder. People would think you were a hipster.

@sciencegirl100 5 лет назад

should be a meetup of fans in some city to just walk around with old "portable" gear

@deadsi 5 лет назад

Although if u wore 80s clothes.. They'd still call u a hipster

@adorenu1338 5 лет назад

@@deadsi fashion sense already went back to 80s. All of us are hipsters

@OtakuUnitedStudio 3 года назад

TBF you would have to be.

@mitchm7563 5 лет назад

so this is what shot all those amateur pornos of the 90s

@BrasilGT 5 лет назад

And also the professional ones, just with more lighting and audio equipment.

@lrastus6692 5 лет назад

And really good wide angle lenses !

@5roundsrapid263 5 лет назад

You mean ‘80s.

@mitchm7563 5 лет назад

5Rounds Rapid nope 90s..their prices had gone down by then and were easy to get hold of

@5roundsrapid263 5 лет назад

Kay Mutua Yeah, but those were VHS, which looked a lot different.

@SlyEcho 5 лет назад

That macro shot is plenty Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ though.

@bluesbest1 3 года назад

Yeah, I was amazed that I could see the individual center spike things on that flower. A _1980s camcorder_ was able to produce that exceptional video quality. Too bad it sucks in every other way.

@E100Omega123 3 года назад

*Macintosh Plus plays softly in the background*

@thulyblu5486 3 года назад

I expected Pierre Chang from the Dharma initiative to give a video introduction if you know what I mean.

@UselessDuckCompany 5 лет назад

I'm really enjoying these videos.

@CatsMeow_ 3 года назад

Hey look! Its Mike, the CEO of the useless duck company!

@CatsMeow_ 3 года назад

@hi there I didn't express any opinions, I was just noting his presence.

@ToastyTastes 3 года назад

BUY A RIPSTIK PLEASE

@niko5008 3 года назад

@ToastyTastes 3 года назад

@@brockknox3287 what does that have to do with anything? And I'm reporting you

@TheFlyingScotsmanTV 5 лет назад

learned some new stuff there. very informative. As a teenager of the 80s with an interest in photography - camcorders were amazing to me - far too expensive for anyone I knew to have one, then my uncle got one and I remember getting to play with it for a weekend maybe in 1985 - it was awesome. I did all sorts of stupid stuff - dubbing, doing titles on toilet roll and scrolling them by the screen, doing 'special effects' - making things disappear with stop/start - and even some crappy claymation - and I've still got the tape! kids got it too easy these days with their $600 cellphones, PS4s, etc - back in 85 hardly anyone had that sort of money, and technology inspired real appreciation of it. good times.

@catgirlcraft1774 4 года назад

BaCK iN My dAy-

@chorvaqueen 5 лет назад

hot potato hot potato hot potato

@fffUUUUUU 5 лет назад

boobies

@trashboye1235 4 года назад

Yep

@louisberetton9153 4 года назад

Waaaaaaaaa I read the comment exactly when he said it. I'm amazed 😂

@rogerb5615 5 лет назад

One of your best videos yet: Concise, clear, killer graphics, excellent product close-ups. Learned something today. Thank you, and I'm glad I'm a supporter!

@KaptainKrypton 5 лет назад

"Little Jimmy: Screwing up softball games since 1984"

@HarleyBadger 5 лет назад

My husband (Spats Bear) and I have three of these :-) As well as one of the original shoulder-strap VCRs. Particularly fond of the ole Fisher-Price PXL-2000s, we have a couple of them (complete with the matching monitors.) Oh, and I must say we LOVE your channel. [edit] Oh and we also have a couple of the JVCs.

@mitchm7563 5 лет назад

Harley Badger yall must have a library of ya'll sextapes then

@HarleyBadger 5 лет назад

Nope, we don't do that kinda thing.

@mitchm7563 5 лет назад

then what where all the gadgets for back in the day?

@DvdXploitr 5 лет назад

crap! I was gonna try to find them on LifeOut LOL....just kidding ;)

@jameslaidler4259 5 лет назад

Kay Mutua Could you be any more of a creeper?

@ExperimentalFun 5 лет назад

Why didn't people just use their phones to film?

@virtusetglorie 5 лет назад

Experimental Fun why didn't they use wood gas powered cameras?

@Tedd755 5 лет назад

Either you're making a bad joke or you're really, really dumb.

@MrBearfaced 5 лет назад

The cord wasn't long enough for anything other than home movies.

@38911bytefree 5 лет назад

Because they had less memory than a Commodore 64

@NOWThatsRichy 5 лет назад

38911bytefree mobile phones hadn't even been invented when this camera was made!

@CrunchBarry_ 5 лет назад

That's Lilacia Park in Lombard! I used to live only a few blocks from there.

@somefreshbread 5 лет назад

I recognized it immediately. "Oh that'd can't be Lombard" I thought - cue the white church and my DQ craving.

@presidentkiller Год назад

If people stared at you while holding the Betamovie, you should've behaved like a time-traveller both lost and marvelled at the modern world, and asked what year it was. 😆

@d1oftwins 5 лет назад

14:03 Not sure if comedy, repressed memories or both. :D Another great video.

@GammaLoo 5 лет назад

We were all little Jimmy at some point...

@alec4672 5 лет назад

Oh my god I remember that tape adapter 😂 this is hard core 90's baby memory lane.

@user-os8sq3uh4n 5 лет назад

Where memory sticks go to die

@NOWThatsRichy 5 лет назад

Alec Ver Bunker I've still got one of those vhs adapters somewhere, it had it own battery and motorised gears to wind the tape into the mechanism!

@tjnickles4782 5 лет назад

Alec Ver Bunker I still use my vhs-c camcoder from 2003 and I love it

@charlescampuz5812 5 лет назад

Conspirazy They didn’t die there, they served as a decent memory card format for the PSP under the “Memory Stick Pro Duo” variant.

@zacksstuff 4 года назад

I'd love to see a video dedicated to VHS camcorders and VHS-C. I had a version of that JVC camcorder, albeit without the LCD screen on the side, so it's a very interesting topic to me.

@Cheezwizzz 4 года назад

I’ve always been fascinated by electronics and mechanics, but what I really love is the ingenuity that goes into creating these and most devices, the brains behind the design and function and the fact the have to be designed to be mass produced and to be somewhat reliable. The elegance of how even the tape is wrapped around the head is incredible!! I’ve been debating with myself to do a basic electronics course to try and really understand how these machines work and how to fix them!! I used to pull everything apart in our house to learn how they work and how to fix them (most of the time) . Anyway, love the channel even though I get lost early on!! All the best, John 🇮🇪

@seoulpurpose 5 лет назад

Love the vid! So much talk of head drums on this one, though. I feel like we might have reached... ...MAX head drum. (I'm sorry)

@CanuckGod 5 лет назад

Kudos to the 1% of people who got that reference. Then again, there seem to be a lot of old people watching this, so the percentage is probably higher... Matt Frewer would be proud.

@seoulpurpose 5 лет назад

I like to think I'm not all that old, just born 20 minutes into the future. Or maybe I'm a digital representation of myself, and a bad pun was the last thing I saw before dying.

@pmgodfrey 5 лет назад

"a lot of old people watching this" Thanks... :/ I'm just a few months shy of 45. I'll go back to my retirement home now. GET OFF MY LAWN!

@CanuckGod 5 лет назад

Turning 40 tomorrow, we're all getting old :)

@pmgodfrey 5 лет назад

Happy Birthday! It's all downhill from here though. :)

@paulhorn2665 5 лет назад

Remember when a neighbor in my small village where I grown up, bought this. He was known as the man who could make "Television" by us village-children.

@cw8537 5 лет назад

And...riiiiiiiiiight

@Wallyworld30 5 лет назад

Did he ask you if you like to watch gladiator movies?

@digitaloneup290 5 лет назад

"Am I in Macro Mode?... I don't really get it."

@Carstuff111 5 лет назад

Watching the end... made me feel like I was in the 1980s again...... thank you for that!! I had some family members that had a compact VHS camcorder..... and that grainy, kind washed out look brings back some memories!

@theVHSvlog 5 лет назад

I just spent several weeks piecing together several Sony and NEC machines to make a fully functional FrankenBeta camcorder. Then I did a test recording and saw how terrible the footage was. The picture is okay but for some reason I can only record audio under about 6kHz which makes everything sound muffled. Still fun to use for nostalgia's sake

@theVHSvlog 5 лет назад

Sure! I'll upload it by saturday

@hihu7200 5 лет назад

Technology is fun to play with. That sounds like it was a fun project.

@Redspl 5 лет назад

i'd check for two things: a) old, bulged caps in the audio processing region b) bad mic anyways, cool!

@trizedlyza 5 лет назад

VHS had two ways to record audio, unless it's labeled HiFi (which uses a head on the drum and sounds like a CD) it'll use a fixed head and record as the tape slowly goes past it. It should sound as good as an audio cassette being they both run about 1.5ips in SP mode but I've never heard good sound from VHS unless it was HiFi.

@RedPillRecording 5 лет назад

Also check for: c) audio head fouled with oxide shed or other foreign substance. d) audio head azimuth misalignment. That's tough to check for as you can't compare playback quality on the recorder.. Remember though, the betamovie used the beta II speed, equivalent to VHS LP, approximately half the speed of a compact cassette.

@williamroeben 5 лет назад

Your videos are deep and clear and awesome, thank you so much!

@RaspK 4 года назад

My grandfather had bought a "portable" Blaupunkt camera and VCR; and you also often needed an extremely hefty, not-particularly-long-running battery pack as well, plus the lighting fixture and its own battery pack. Those things were *enormous* back then (much larger than the tiny ones from the ads on the video, probably earlier models).

@veggiet2009 5 лет назад

It would be really fun to record a whole short film project with this, to get that really authentic retro feel. Even the modern day fedex truck felt sufficiently retro through the beta max

@dannyboy42223 5 лет назад

Love the side thought shots like "I'm not a idiot,I know its more convent than film" but yet still having a professional presentation. Great in depth but followable video.

@amirayousry7616 4 года назад

Gz.utddxح مت

@anthonygunby1319 5 лет назад

I would love to get one of those cameras. Yes it may be a failed format but that doesn’t bother me. I have quite a few failed technology formats/products. At the time of release no one knows if something will sell or flop. I am not ashamed to own failed tech. Because at the time we did not know it would fail. And collecting failed tech products is also interesting as you can see or have a piece of what could have been.

@tituslafrombois1164 3 года назад

I've watched this video several times and the "time compression" thing still makes no logical sense to me. I'm convinced Sony are secretly dark wizards.

@InvictvsNox 4 года назад

That tape popout and "T, for record" had me dying lmao.

@alecjahn 5 лет назад

Another great production. Fascinating bit of technology, as always. It's amazing what engineers had to figure out a couple/few decades ago, especially mechanically, on portable and semi-portable devices.

@alecjahn 5 лет назад

And another reminder of how brilliant Sony was back then with their new technologies and adaption thereof.

@mspysu79 5 лет назад

It is a bit unfair to pick on the BMC-110 for not have autofucus, very few video cameras at that time had autofocus. The BMC-220 from 1984 had autofocus, also the zoom speed was the same as stand alone cameras from RCA (Hitachi) and Panasonic which also had manual white balance. The Magnavox (Panasonic) VHS camcorder you show is from about 1990 7 years after the BMC-110. Later Betamovies like the BMC-550 from 1985 had an electronic viewfinder 1.25" and recorded in either SuperBeta(High Band) or standard Betamax, it also used a CCD image sensor). In 1986 Sony added BI-SHB (Super High Band) and HiFi stereo audio to the Betamovie in the BMC-1000, the SHB could be turned off for comparability with standard Betamax. In 1984 Sony took the idea of the Betamovie and turned it into a Betacam format camcorder, using the BMC-220 as a base, with XLR connectors for microphone and audio added to a bump out at the back, the camera recorded standard Betacam component video and 2 linear audio tracks. The camera was popular with NHK regional newsrooms over in Japan, but it is practically unknown in the US.

@furbyguy Год назад

Great and informative video, as usual! The Betamax test at the end reminded me exactly of everyone's "my first video" upon receiving a video camera of some sort, before they became so small and cheap that they got put on everything and lost their novelty.

@julianmorrisco 4 года назад

Ah, the sound of the power zoom. Brings back memories!

@Lurker1979 5 лет назад

One thing you can say about Sony. They employed some impressive engineers. To bad they did not do a good job of taking advantage of that in cases like this.

@BlahBleeBlahBlah 5 лет назад

20:30 - with the slowwww zoom controls you got a subtle dolly zoom effect!

@RemoWilliams1227 4 года назад

Another like for you, this channel is gold, informational yet entertaining with very high production quality. Kudos on the whole show!

@d.scottwilliamson2421 5 лет назад

Holy cow! I recognize the park at the end of the video, I may have been on that train in the background! Howdy neighbor, I live two suburbs to the West! I've been a huge fan of Technology Connections (and TC2), something caught my ear in The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!" that suggested you may be somewhere in the area, then Autofocus rambles and a landing at MDW, and now this for sure. Keep up the great work.

@hironyx 5 лет назад

Kid: "Look mom! a vlogger! wow his camera is so big!"

@AustriaTV 5 лет назад

dang! I love big clunky camcorders! they look.. professional! :D

@yoshi314 5 лет назад

"weight is a sign of reliability" ...

@DFX4509B 5 лет назад

Unless you sell your wares from the back of a van (concrete-filled speakers), or are Beats (nonfunctional metal plating installed to simulate quality)...

@sionjones1675 5 лет назад

one of the advantages of having a weightier, bulkier, shoulder mounted camera, is it's inertia. It's far easier to hold it steady without using a tripod or steadycam type device.

@kaukospots 3 года назад

Had one of those Magnavox cameras growing up! I remember the hybrid battery charger dock thing, the green focus button.. that thing got me into videography. It was great.

@NickSchoenfeld 5 лет назад

I love that you made a separate video about this. Reminds me of in film school when I had to use light meters when shooting 16mm and 35mm film. Ah, optical viewfinders.

@Elastane 5 лет назад

7:04 the loudness war finally destroys all music :P Ace video, thanks :)

@cooliofoolio 5 лет назад

I do not think that is music, but unfortunately, even with the vinyl resurgence, mastering engineers still prefer making the signal too hot like with tape, or they think they're capturing the live concert experience but they're not.

@Piedog769 5 лет назад

[Struggling with camera] [Struggling intensifies] Thanks subtitles @ 22:45

@monkeyseatcatfood 3 месяца назад

Thanks so much for making these videos Mr. Connections. I'm much too young to have experienced most of the "physical media" days, but I was around for the last couple of years. So for me, it's a combination of nostalgia and curiosity. Keep up the great videos!

@DaddyDaughterMovieNight 4 года назад

Love your channel! When I was in high school video production class (1984) we used a "porta-pak" which was a camera tethered to a reel-to-reel video recorder. Our first exam was to thread the tape blindfolded. If you get your hands on one...have fun with that. Keep the videos coming!

@agni1047 4 года назад

Hello sir can u help me... I want to know which was the first camera with 'delete' function or option or button...please help me out it's for my project... 😬🙏

@thissisawesome4853 4 года назад

The T stands for "Time to record". Ingenious, really.

@EmployeeJoe630 4 года назад

No no no its "Tape go now"

@aretard7995 3 года назад

I guess it stands for Tape

@performa9523 5 лет назад

You can almost hear the 80's synth on that Beta Footage, woah! Good show sir!

@lilithgalac5102 4 года назад

Man, the quality on that recording at the end is absolutely perfect horror-ARG material... I might have to try and pick one of these up if I ever want to go into that field!

@petercfraedrich 5 лет назад

We had one of the Maganavox VCR camcorders growing up; i used to love playing with it. Takes me back.

@ErwinPommel 5 лет назад

14:07 was epic. Well played, sir!

@deludedmarxist 5 лет назад

That part about softball sounded a little too involved to be a joke! Nice video and sorry abou the childhood sports trauma!

@romaneberle 4 года назад

6:18 that's an awesome way to demonstrate the effect, very, very good!

@giragama 5 лет назад

Excellent video, I love all related with the old camcorders and video formats. In your next video could you do a comparison of Video 8 vs Hi8 vs Digital 8? please.

@AdminFrank 4 года назад

11:02 I have and use a BMC500P, the “T” doesn’t stand for Recording, there was no way to know if the recorder was recording unless you could hear it run, or see the spools turn. T Stands for “Tape Run” so if you were Running out of Tape, or if it was flashing, you were running out of Battery. This is for the BMC500P, but I hardly believe the BMC110 was different...

@MrDjoppio 5 лет назад

Congratulations for the end footage, it is awesome in so many levels!

@davewolf8869 5 лет назад

Love your videos man, through your good research and clear explanations, so many good ideas and technological breakthroughs are preserved in memory =)

@MrZeppelin1007 4 года назад

Very cool! Love the videos man. Keep em comin. Wasnt there more commercial Beta that kept going after the consumer beta failed? I know there was a digital version, betacam Sp, and betacam Sx. Im curious how those formats compare

@noahmccann4438 5 лет назад

Creating a second recording to send to family!? I find it a pain to share videos with iCloud. I’m glad I never had to deal with that. Learning about the past definitely helps me appreciate the modern age.

@Larry 5 лет назад

I jus lve he fact everything you filmed with it looks like it's from the '80s :D

@zsin128 3 года назад

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@yeah2985 3 года назад

@@zsin128 ihadastroke

@zsin128 3 года назад

Lol

@carlwheezer1030 3 года назад

Good comment Larry thanks

@williamjones7163 8 месяцев назад

I had found one of those video cameras with a separate video recorder in a Savers Thrift Store with cables and batteries for about $25 back in 1995. It was a JVC model (It was almost exactly like the Magnavox version shown). The camera was great. The lens had an 8x optical zoom and a macro close-up that you could focus in on a US quarter that would fill the screen. The only problem was it was not good in low light. A standard 100 watt light bulb would take care of that. The JVC video tape recorder was high quality that you could edit video tapes and add secondary sound tracks. You could set the camera to do time delay recording like record a frame every 1, 5, 10, 30, 60 seconds. Unlike some VCR's, it wouldn't have that annoying start up problems between shots. Those were the days. Then computer video came in and the system became obsolete. You could record with your phone. When you would go out with your big video camera people thought you were professional.