Thank you, thank you, thank you for that. I haven't seen that in over 30 years since I was 6 maybe 7 years old. My Nana had that machine and I would always watch it when I went to her house and I was furious when I went over one day and discovered she had taped over it. I had never forgotten it and never dreamed in a million years I would see it again. Once again thank you.
"Did the man speak in gibberish so that this video could be released in all European markets without having to worry about translating everything?" I'm sure that was the real point here in making this tape. It didn't have to say anything as long as it showed it out in diagrams and other visual aids.
Ingenious design from Philips. Very user - friendly compared to many at the time. I had the N1700, happy days. Eventually the machine succumbed to the infamous Philips Goo problem with the rubber parts within ! So it was I ended up with an ex-rental Ferguson Videostar, with stereo sound, and matching telly. Both overhauled by people who knew their stuff prior to selling it on. These, too were lovely machines. Apparently even in the early 90's people wanted the new slimline machines that didn't work anything like as well ! I still have the Videostar, Model no 3V29 I think !
This video is somewhat fascinating to see! I can't stop ^^
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this film was the first video tape we watched included in our 2000,- Deutsche Mark Philips VR2024. it had great programming features, so we had to learn it with this tape first. you had the chance to delete it and use it, or like us we used only the second side of that tape.
We had the Phillips 2000 :-) I remember our local video store had no films. I have a couple of VHS video machines I kept but I recently saw an old 2000 machine for sale so I thought I'd look it up. This is really cool.
Made me laught too. BTW, one can see the amazing quality of this system comparing to VHS, where the bottom lines were always distorted whatever the model.
Wow nostalgia!! I was about 4 when we had one of these. In my teen years I always assumed that it was a betamax we had as I had heard of the battle between that and VHS, that was until said "do you remember the betamax we used to have" to my dad who then told me it was not betamax but a Phillips with a different format. I am surprised that Blu-Ray beat DVD-HD
Clay3613 I don’t think it would have been better resolution than beta or VHS. Video 2000 tapes were designed to beflipped over like an audio cassette. That to me would imply a smaller video head, so less resolution per side on the tape for the data to be recorded to sufficiently. I imagine to compensate this Philips would’ve shrunken the resolution so each edge of the tape could’ve been used
It mounted the videoheads on piezoelectric elements, so the tracking was electronic. There were no interference lines (perfect picture) when fast forwarding/reverse at 3x speed and perfect still picture. Something VHS had only years later with digital tricks. It utilised only half the tapewidth, but the resolution was about the same as VHS. Superior, nonetheless.
Plus it's hard to find a fully working unit, at that restored and thoroughly cleaned. This means, the VCR would have to be torn apart and reworked on. The only way to see the true picture quality, is to realign the mechanical parts and clean the heads. Even after all that work, the video on it would only slightly improve. You would also have to buy a new old stock tape, to record a fresh video on. In the end, you should just stick with typical VHS, as it looks better anyway. If not, spend more money on a Super VHS or Hi8 VCR for recording instead. (No, I don't recommend a Beta VCR, as they are also hard to find working.)
this moment has lived with me forever....my dad and i seen an advert for a video player and a selection of movie cassette tapes for sale (couldve been 50 to 100 quid) in the Liverpool Echo...being that the prices of new VCR ,s were unaffordable at thet time, we thought "this was a bargain"...early 80,s both me or my dad didnt know the difference between betamax or vhs..tbh, i dont think many did...we rang the seller up and he said come along and have a look and if your interested no problem...we arrived at his house, he played a movie,he showed us it recording...perfect,.".well take it"...i wonder now if he was sniggering as we loaded the stuff into the mk1 escort we had......getting home my dad set it up and hey presto we had a video recorder,an assortment of movies to watch and some blank tapes to record our favourite tv programmes...heaven ! !!....next thing was to join a video hire club that had opened up just down the road from the house..excited, we took 2 pieces of i.d. and a utillity bill and got our membership card for this magical movie cavern that now been opened up into our new world...browsing all the movies that were on show sprawling the walls of this tiny shop we chose a film to watch that night..obviously all the latest movies were already out.(you had to write your name down in a book to reserve them). so came movie time..we opened the box and put the film into the player..with minute bumps and bangs and various turnings of the tape cassette my dad stated "i cant the get the bloody thing in the slot". with various efforts we realised the slot was not the same size as our "film for the night"....comparing the tape to one of ours we noticed it was physically different..."what the hell" said good old dad and we marched back to the shop..we asked the assistant in the shop and he looked at our tape and didnt have a clue what our tape was, he got a catalogue out and then told us "ahhh youve bought a VIDEO2000" ! and said there are definately no films of that format in the shop....suddenly the penny dropped...the bargain we thought we got was not a bargain....we still used it but only as a recorder for a few years...heartbreaking at the time but its a warm innocent nieve funny story now..
We had machine a machine just like and the cartoon. I was miffed when my brother taped over this video. This video is for the 2022 machine which had still and picture search. Ours, the 2020, was one of the first and did not have these features. It's the extra row of buttons.
One hopes that the audio quality on Video 2000 is clearer than the extremely odd utterances of the strange little cartoon man! EDIT: I see that the strange little cartoon man is a "Strictly Come Dancing" fan!
We had Philips 2000 and yes, next to no movies for rental. Auto tracking with no manual adjustment......nightmare. Picture quality beat both VHS and Beta when working properly. Double sided tape meant 8 hours recording time!
We had one too back in the early 80s. And as you say, it was hard getting movies to rent for it. There was one one place in town that had some and the selection was limited. Everybody else had Betamax.
This is just too much for me. I cannot invest in a contraption that only lets you record bald falsetto news presenters, pianists, and dancing people. And then you must place spools from perfectly good audio cassettes in front of the screen as a sacrifice whilst red arrows fly out of your telly to rip the poor thing to shreds. All this happens whilst a little foreign gnome make a home behind the box. Rachmaninov or no, it's weird. Too weird.
We had one that worked for years and years. But we used it less and less as VHS became more dominant in The Netherlands and pre-recorded movies on V2000 cassettes became a rarity. Can't remember it ever giving up the ghost though. The main difference with a VHS machine: the notorious 'tracking' button on VHS machines. The V2000 system didn't have one. It didn't need one.
wow.. one question ... im so curious if that machine have the icons in the play-stop-rewind, buttons ... like in vhs and dvd (square for stop, arrow for play etc)
@@gabrielrendon8730 Of course there were movies available for V2000 in Holland because that was where it was developed. But it never could compete with the more popular formats so pre-recorded movies became scarcer and scarcer every year. But for recording live programs it was still used.
@@AudieHolland thanks for the museum... I was born in 78 in Mexico, when I was 10 years old, we bought the first vhs, I remember that I put the casett but it did not work, the problem was that the TV was not tuned to the vcr, in the end I pressed a button and this is the sprimeras scene of a movie, it was amazing to see the clarity and very exciting to see a movie without commercials....
Kevin Sykes oh man what a shame, I am looking for the lumia bandwidth of the Video 2-2000 but I can't find it any place (for example the CED had 3 MHz of luma bandwidth for and the Laserdisc had 5 MHz)
dfc99nyc True. Interestingly the animation in this was done by Toonder Studio's (purposely spelled that way) who otherwise did one feature film that saw a release in the US in the 80's called "The Dragon That Wasn't.".
Justin Fencsak numerous reasons about the dominance of existing players and their growing range (including camcorders) but also issues with tape speed in 60hz, NTSC and 110\120v.
@@nationwidepenguin I wouldn't doubt it was an uphill battle Philips didn't feel like going on in the US market (if so, they'd probably brand these under Magnavox since they used that name for most electronics stateside then).
I doubt Magnavox/North American Philips wanted to try to sell V2000 in the US considering they were already selling Japanese VHS machines in 1980. AFAIK NAP never used any of Philips' European VHS deck designs (like the Charly decks) either.
The thing that *is* creepy is that I was absolutely certain, that somewhere in this thread, there would be a millennial or Gen Zer (hate those definitions but morons seem to identify with them), wanting to have the little power trip of calling something they didn’t quite get, or that didn’t conform to their exceptionally conform standards of normal “creepy”.
I had on of thiese monsters,I couldent get time to fix it so after two years I put it in container,,it even had a film in it"the road to bali" i think.....shiiiit I shouldent have dumped it but I guess I will find a newer one hahah
What killed V2000 was the unorthodox control markings(among other things), e.g.: instead of "play" the button was branded as "tape". For me the deal-breaker would've been the brand "Philips"! I would trust any other brand BUT Philips!(remembering an old always-failing B/W TV set from my childhood - total rubbish!)
