Philips N1700 VCR Teardown - The Electronics Inside 

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It was a wonderful find. I did not know there was a competition to VHS and Bita max sony. Thanks for sharing Cheers ✨

Hi great video I love these old philips video recorder I have 5 of them all working and some 1702 and 1502 working as well hopefully you will get that one running again looks forwards seeing that

Wonderful video. The hands on videos are the best in my opinion. I love restoring vintage videotape machines myself. You will be surprised at what you can get up and running by applying common VHS VCR maintenance procedures. The VHS machines are a wonderful catalyst for any vintage videotape machine restorer.

I actually have a VCR repair high school module. This video is now part of my student's VCR history lesson :) Thank you

Looking forward to see more please

Would be great to see you try and get it going video(s) on RU-vid.

These machines are fantastic beasts of technology! I learned a few tricks on how to repair these from an elderly friend who used to be an engineer for Radio Rentals in the 70's and 80's and repaired many of these machines. I've managed to get several of these dinosaurs back to life, and the picture quality can be surprisingly good! The belts will be the first priority, then a good clean up of the lacing mechanism, the tape path, and the audio and video heads, and that big rubber pinch roller. Colin (video99.co.uk) has some great video guides on his YT channel on these machines. Best Wishes on the restoration project :)

The good old days, when products were designed to be repaired.

Those tapes of Automan are quite late for this format. I remember recording that series on VHS back in 1984.

The adventure begins

Blimey, I always wondered where the '80/90s Philips Charley Mech VHS tape take up mechanism came from. Totally different design to every other VHS out there.

It wasn’t just VHS/Betamax you also had Video 2000, which I think was also developed by Phillips, It was popular in schools for classroom instruction , the tapes were if I remember correctly were double sided.

Those canned modules are pretty much the same thing Philips used in the IF and color demodulation of their TV chassis of the era. The varicap tuner is exactly the same.

What I like about it is also that it shows why these things were so expensive compared to their modern counterparts, and why they stopped being built like this: the whole thing is labelled, modular, socketed, robust… and it stops working because a 2 cent piece of rubber dried out, which is just a thing that inevitably happens.

I have exactly the same unit which powers up but doesn't play and two tapes. The difference there is the modules in mine are rusty. I have replacement belts for this as the old ones turned into a sticky rubber licorice mess. I'm looking forward to your attempts at repair.

Philips doesn’t get the credit it’s deserves today! Remember the VCR Format was way before Beta & VHS!

the N1500and N1501 area real challenge, the N1512 and later models are easier to deal with. i even managed to prep a Y/C output on these 😁

Is it put back together? such a iconic VCR.

Did you ever repair it :'0 Is there a sequel?

Channel 4 started in November 1982. Love the BBC micro T Shirt.

Did you find any Service manuals for the module ??

Perhaps try give Colin a shout over on his Video99 channel. He's very knowledgeable with these, and other video formats.

yeah ,,plz get it workinggggg asap..

That machine uses a strange videotape which has it's reels stacked one on top of the other, if you intend to get it working then don't take it apart, You should have made a note of where the modules went before removing them, I hope you have a service manual for the PHILIPS N1700

No NCC-1701 model? ;)

I owned the 1502 version 😊

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3:49 2nd November 1982

Ahhh the good ole days when companies didn't design their products so people could not repair them!!! I miss those days when you could spend a little time and money and fix something that broke instead of having to throw it out and buy a new one

I know how it works 😊

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You need some training if 16kg is to much, start lifting some chopsticks, may help...