Cartrivision User Manual - Reprocessed in "HD" !

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A RU-vid viewer, Jecababu Babu, has asked me to reload this video. He correctly pointed out that back in 2011, RU-vid liked to over process our uploads to save storage space. So be it. I can't argue with that!
I ran the original MPG video file through my Corel Video Editor with auto color correction turned on. This up scaled the image from 360P to 1080p. The original Cartrivision video was 240p at best. At 10 frames per second, as well. So, here it is, folks! It is what it is. Hopefully, it looks better than the 2011 upload. It certainly can't be worse than that.
After, or even before, watching this one, you can see my original 2011 video upload here: • Cartrivision User Manual
Keep in mind, this program was originated on 16mm film, transferred to one inch IVC or maybe quad, then transferred to a half inch mirror master tape for duplication in Cartrivision format. Then it sat in storage for who knows how many decades. Three at a minimum. It was then transferred to mini DV consumer format for me by a fellow with a well aged playback machine. Then played into a consumer grade digitizer on an old Windows 98 or Windows Vista computer and finally uploaded to RU-vid back when they processed the sh*t out of the files to keep their storage requirements to minimum. So, the fact that we have a playback picture at all is a miracle!
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@elijahvincent985 Год назад

Could you imagine for one moment if Sears properly stored this library of tapes in a better warehouse that didn't destroy the tapes prior being sold brand-new (the reason it died), that the format was a hit? I hope to get this tape format someday for a reasonable price.

@tooturnttomato Год назад

As a gen Z person who grew up with VHS tapes and DVDs, this was interesting to learn about today! I agree they could have saved this technology with proper handling. Such is life!

@leoh2251 3 года назад

I smashed a bunch of keys on my keyboard and this video came up. Watched the whole thing. 10/10

@videolabguy 3 года назад

Two bulls are standing on a hill top. One old bull and one young bull.They look down in the valley and see a bunch of RU-vid videos. The young bull starts hopping up and down and says, "Let's run down there and WATCH one of them!" The old bull turns calmly to the young bull and says, "Let's walk down and WATCH all of them." (Can you figure out the original context of this joke? Substitute "cows" for "RU-vid videos". You can guess what "WATCH" is a metaphor for!)

@deftreference 3 года назад

I love the extremely loud KA-CHUNK sound it makes every time she loads or removes a tape

@quantumleap359 2 года назад

Brings back memories of my old GE top loader VHS vcr!

@davidpar2 5 дней назад

Was a rather complicated system, but that isn’t surprising considering its pioneering nature. Wasn’t anything like it before, and it’s impressive that such a thing was available 52 years ago

@curiousgemini 2 года назад

I never realized that they had home videotape...in 1972!

@k8zhd 3 года назад

Wow, that tape has certainly had an interesting and challenging history! It's fun to see back in time with that! I owned a Cartrivision "tank" that I bought in the mid-'70s, and found that it played acceptably for its time, despite being a skip-field system. I still have the schematics, but that's all.

@EoCx1 2 года назад

Scan and upload those schematics!

@tremorist 3 года назад

That's the video that introduced me to your channel. The last time this youtube algorithm did something good. :D

@worldsgreatestride Год назад

That tape came packed with every Sears Cartrivision/TV set. I have one of the cassettes. It's red and says on it Sears owners manual. Signed the Cartrivision expert from Downey.

@TeslaTales59 3 года назад

Now that was very cool. Great music too! Always the best vids with "VideoLabGuy" Keep them coming!

@RubberChickenFilms 3 года назад

I hadn't even heard of Cartrivision until I saw your original video. Pretty fun looking format. Time to bring it back!

@videolabguy 3 года назад

Imagine the size of the camcorder. One Cartrivision cassette is larger than three of my digital camcorders combined. One SD card, about the size of a very stingy wheat thin, holds 18 hours of 1920x1080x60 full HD content. No thanks.

@shaunigothictv1003 2 года назад

@@videolabguy Sir, what is your favourite video format of all time?

@jecababubabu7692 3 года назад

Now I finally have time to watch, thanks for the upload.

@videolabguy 3 года назад

My pleasure. Thank you for the suggestion to rescale and repost the video. That was a great idea. The response has been excellent.

@doctordothraki4378 3 года назад

It's not often you see a Cartrivision tape in this quality! -Though I would suggest processing interlaced video for 60fps output, which looks closer to how it appears on TVs of the era. That's what I do with VHS.- *EDIT:* I realized that's not how Cartrivision works. It doesn't record every field like other formats do (VHS, Beta, LaserDisc, VHD, CED, better stop myself before the formats get too obscure)

@audiodood 2 года назад

Thank you, I never thought this would happen

@misterkrek 3 года назад

Thanks for the nostalgia moment and for giving the new generations this glimpse from technologies past! Btw, if you restricted the audio to a single channel instead of splitting into dual-mono by choice, was there a technical reason for it? I'm just curious and grateful for seeing this again after so many decades!

@videolabguy 3 года назад

I had the transfer done by another fellow over ten years ago. I loaned him my now long gone miniDV recorder and that was how he sent the video file back to me. It is a very old version of MPG. I'm stuck with the "it is what it is" for now.

@Musicradio77Network 3 года назад

I did not know Sears did a TV/Cartravision recorder. It was one of the rarest of the rares. Unfortunately, the Avco Cartravision format didn’t catch on until 1975 when Sony introduced to the Beta VCR, and JVC introduced the VHS VCR in Japan in 1976, and in the US in 1977 by RCA.

@039dalekmoore2007 3 года назад

Shes a big toaster alright ! i think i missed this one but second time around happy i saw it

@mjg263 7 месяцев назад

Neat, thanks!

@GordonCaledonia 5 месяцев назад

Did Elvis have one of these? He had Betamax, right? Elvis had a bunch of, _Monty Python_ shows on tape. I think they are still there at Graceland.

@TwinFamiProductionsOLD 3 года назад

IIRC, Cartrivision recorded only every third frame so it was only 20fps, so I think this is as good as it’s gonna get.

@videolabguy 3 года назад

Actually ten "frames" which were actually single 240 line fields per second. Why? Only the designers know. The tech was already beyond that when Cartrivision came out.

@crashbandicoot4everr 6 месяцев назад

Notice the loss of horizintal sync on the TV screen for a split second at 6:51! Head drum servo didn't lock soon enough?

@quantumleap359 2 года назад

Thanks for the peek back to 1970. This is fascinating, I had no idea Sears was a distributer for Cartrtivison. Was there an earlier version of B&W only Cartrivision? I ask this as I remember seeing Cartrivision players and partial mechanisms being sold by Fair Radio Sales back in 1967 1968. They were obviously blowing them out, as the prices were very low, and there were several levels of units available, ie working, not working - parts only, etc. Thanks for any info.

@videolabguy 2 года назад

Cartridge Television Inc. only lasted long enough to produce the one model of VCR. No matter what brand of television it was embedded in, it was always exactly the same machine. Having said that, there were two factories. One in California and the other in Georgia. The California machines have the grey colored scanners and the east coast models were olive drab. You want to avoid the olive machines, except for spare parts, and restore the grey ones. They went out of business before the east coasters got up to full speed building the machines.

@sabbath7081 2 года назад

Honestly, it's just an early built-in VCR with a camcorder attachment on a monster console TV. I wonder if there are any still in operation in a museum or somebody's house who lives somewhere way out of touch with modern times.

@videolabguy 2 года назад

Yes. There are still a few working units around.

@sabbath7081 2 года назад

@@videolabguy I was born in 1981 so VCRs were kind of a part of my life but I had never seen one of these, although my whole life I've always been trying to collect and preserve things that are older than me it's funny today I probably wouldn't be able to afford one of these to preserve, what a world huh?

@ct92404 2 года назад

This is so 70's 😂

@whathe4633 3 года назад

I wonder how many movies were available to rent before the service ended and what movies they were as well.

@videolabguy 3 года назад

Look up the company AVCO / Embassy films. Cartrivision had the entire film library of the film company. That will account for 95% of their film library. AVCO is famous for the artillery shell proximity fuse of WWII. In 1970, the Viet Nam war had ended and they did not want a "brain drain" from their company. So, AVCO manufactured about 35,000 VCRs for Cartrivision. That why there are so many of them around today. They ended up as surplus items at Olsen electronics all through the late 80s and into the 90s. Cheap!

@oldradiosnphonographs 10 месяцев назад

Ok videolabguy REALLY dumb question…was the Sony VO-1600 from the same time period ever marketed to average people like the Cartivision was? To those who just wanted to record TV shows off the air if they wanted to see a program later or was it strictly a professional product for schools, businesses, and TV stations and not meant for the public from the very beginning?

@videolabguy 10 месяцев назад

Yes. Sony intended Umatic format to be for the consumer. The Japanese consumers were a little more tolerant to high prices. The US consumers were more in the market for a bargain. Umatic did find its niche in the industrial, medical and educational markets almost immediately. As well as the homes of wealthy folk too.

@oldradiosnphonographs 10 месяцев назад

@@videolabguy How long exactly was the VO-1600 manufactured? I’m thinking this model was still being made as late as 1974 when newer machines (that needed that tuner timer block) came out? The VO-1600 I bought off eBay looks really nice but I can’t even get the eject lever to work because it feels something is obstructing that lever! It’s a nice looking machine with manuals and a dust cover and I don’t want to do anything stupid to ruin it.

@ParanormalExplorer 2 года назад

I've found some of these on Ebay. So there's no way to play these without that camera?

@videolabguy 2 года назад

I am confused by your question. The camera has nothing to do with the tapes. The camera simply generates the video signal to send to the VCR. Any VCR. Any camera would have worked with the original Cartrivision VCR as well. The original VCR was enormous and was built into a console color TV or into a stand alone end table. (The dent in the carpet joke) This unit is a camera adapter ONLY for powering the camera. The recorder in this case is a completely modern digital unit designed for transferring old home video tapes to memory cards or USB thumb drives. My system has nothing to do with the original VCR. That was why I pasted a photo of the VCR on the front of the box. It's meant as a joke. Last, the Cartrivision machines, parts and tapes listed on Ebay are at least 400% to 500% overpriced. The Carrtrivision VCRs are the hardest of all to restore and unless you are an experienced VTR engineer or technician, you should avoid them like the plague. Even I won't work them as the end result is not worth the cost and the labor.NOTHING noteworthy was ever recorded on a Cartrivision. The commercial tapes are all available on DVD or on line, so again, no need to try to recover those tapes.

@deftreference 3 года назад

Lol. They actually designed the rental cartridges so you couldn't rewind them!!

@doctordothraki4378 3 года назад

And later, select few "styrofoam" VHS tapes would be playable only once. But thankfully those are far from the norm

@GD15555 2 года назад

I still use cartrivision for all my video needs o

@Kennephone 2 месяца назад

Where's the sound?

@Ronsonator 3 года назад

Such a 70's living room. I wonder how many fondue and sex parties happened there.

@videolabguy 3 года назад

I don't know. I never got invited to any of those kind of parties. :( Wouldn't the fondue scorch the naughty bits? But, that video sure makes me nostalgic! "Those were the days!" Of course, all old people say that.

@TheNameisPlissken1981 Год назад

So you can only watch the rented film once? Was it worth it?

@videolabguy Год назад

No. The Embassy film catalog was one of the worst. Most film companies wanted nothing to do with the home video business model. Embassy was broke and desperate enough to enter the deal with Avco, the big investor in Cartrivision. Avco made proximity fuses for artillery shells and the Vietnam war was ending. To prevent a "brain drain" at their factory, they struck a deal to manufacture VCR mechanisms for Cartrivision. The industry made strange bed fellows back then.

@TheNameisPlissken1981 Год назад

@@videolabguy thanks for the info. My family got our first VCR in 1979/1980. My dad got us four kids one blank video tape each and we just taped stuff off cable. I don't think I rented a tape until 1985 or 1986! No, actually my older brother rented me Empire Strike Back when it first came out on video. So it was a little early than that.

@stormwulf117 2 года назад

I wish there wasn't text across the bottom of the screen. Everybody always seems to want to own everything.

@videolabguy 2 года назад

It cost me personally several hundred dollars to get this one tape recovered. So, yes. It is perfectly reasonable for me to protect my investment of time and money. Any one wanting to obtain any of my videos for productions of their own can contact me and we can negotiate terms of use license and the appropriate fees.

@warr2015 Год назад

Lol DRM play count control. They have always wanted to cash in on every viewing.

@mistertentpole 3 года назад

See how easy? You press FF and turn dial to RW. This is fine. Don't forget to plan your shots. Etc. Now buy it.

@videolabguy 3 года назад

Easy as fizbin!

@jorgezarco9269 Год назад

She stole Dolly Reed's clothing.

@HerbieHerbHerb 3 года назад

When was this originally aired? 1969 - 1972?

@videolabguy 3 года назад

This program came with the TV/VCR combo. Its the instruction manual. I would believe it came out when the VTRs did in 1970. I originally posted my copy in 2011.

@HerbieHerbHerb 3 года назад

@@videolabguy Thanks

@MiiGameplaysHD 4 месяца назад

The Cartrivision failed, because the only player released was built into a expensive TV.

@joeybaseball7352 2 года назад

What's with the watermark? You don't own this. You didn't make this video.

@videolabguy 2 года назад

Thank you for your concern. This content was given to me by one of the principal founders of Cartridge Television In., Mr. Larry F. (name redacted for his privacy protection), in return for transferring his home movies to DVD from Cartrivision tapes. He gave me the permissions, in writing, to publish all material almost 20 years ago now along with many machines, test fixtures, engineering documents, patent paperwork and early test tapes. So, yes. You are incorrect.