© SONY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS 1979
This is presented here purely for historical interest, there is no servicing information in this video at all, so if you are resurrecting one to working order, please look elsewhere for advice.
The tape quality throughout is poor as the iron oxide was shedding off the tape. The quality is especially poor in the first 30 seconds as no matter how many times I cleaned the tape path in my venerable Sanyo VTC5000 (which has much more reliable electronics and video heads than a Sony SL-C7!), one patch of tape near the start of the content we're interested in just kept on clogging the video heads, so I let it sort itself out.
Speaking of poor quality, don't you just love that CSO/chromakey/blue screen in the video? It's just *awful*, it's so bad even 1970s Doctor Who would blush! The "walking" at 10:53 is especially "convincing"!
And I adore the sly dig at JVC's VHS format at 9:05!
I've decided to publish this without a scheduled slot, just at random as soon as I found it, because while it's of interest to this channel and some of its subscribers, it's not a broadcast TV programme or continuity surrounding a programme.
4 окт 2024
