Sony SL-C7 Betamax - New old stock from 1980! Part 1 

OMG , what a find. Did so many of these, that had been badly worked on !! Customers didn’t mind spending a lot of money to have them repaired or serviced. Anyone out there from the SES Staines days !! 👍🏼

What a find! I used to have one of these as a kid. Either the c6 or c7. Very similar and can't remember but I was the first kid in the street to have my own vcr and be able to record movies off the TV 😁

I know the world have moved on from Physical Media - but these machines are a sight to behold

What a wonderful discovery in that condition. Lovely to see a C7 being worked on. I owned one and repaired hundreds (including doing head disk replacement with the concentricity adjustment!). Always amazed me the amount of technology crammed into one of those.

These machines are incredible. There´s so much going on everywhere. Fascinating ingots and very substantial in their presence.

I had one of those! Bought it in 1981, gave it to a mate 6 years later when I replaced it with an Amstrad all-in-one TV/VHS jobbie. I never had any problems with the C7, last I heard of it it was still working fine in the late 90s.

I sold so many of these in my early days at Dixons. The other way you can tell that this is the early model is the later ones had Betamax C7 & the beta logo in white on the panel above the tracking control etc. I had both versions when they were new, I wish the one I have now was in cosmetically as mint condition as this one is. Such a wonderful machine, I loved the sounds the solenoids made when the transport functions were changed. If this is an untouched early example, they had an inherent fault, which you didn’t notice until you played a “letterbox” recording of a widescreen film. As the white content changed the picture bounced horizontally, the stability was so poor it was hard to watch. My first machine had this problem but I can’t remember what the modification was, I’m sure it’s something you’ll have dealt with though. My second one didn’t exhibit the fault, so Sony had obviously corrected it. The one I have now is a later one & doesn’t have the problem. Really enjoyed this video, I look forward to the next instalment. Regards, Rob.

Repaired many of them for SonyNL. That's around 40 years ago. First problems occured where the timer / clock set (as far as I remember) buttons beneath the semi transparent lit on the upper deck left side. Can fix them if it was like yesterday. Love it. This almost unused one should belong to a Sony Museum. Hope one day you get the AG-7 Betamax videocassette changer as well.

.TANKS. this mashin very similar sony t7

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أرجو الرد كم قيمته بالعملة الدولار وكيف احصل عليه وكيف عملية الشحن اريد فيديو T7 SONY

i have a Fisher PH 470 boombox that had the same buttons all of them were bad & had to be replaced

"Those awfully nice people at Sony, have asked me to tell you, you can now rent a Sony!"

What makes me so sad is how well built machines of the past were compared to now. Most 4k blu ray players are so badly built and so flimsy that just picking them up you think they are going to break.

It's a shame that YT now uses AI to check the videos for quality. Now I can't watch the oil creeping down the axle.

Bought mine 79!..................... you needed a dti to reallign the heads . Superior to VHS picture quality ,