They all play LP. Only machines made by panasonic had the lp record speed and a few early ones by Hitachi, namely those made for rca. Rca wanted that speed available.
I presume this has a smaller rotary transformer given the powered pre-amp. The drum itself could be serviceable, the board looks attached via gold plated fingers & pcb pads to the video heads themselves. Very facinating design of a VCR, I would expect less video interference in this design, as evidenced by lack of plasma noise. EDIT: would have thought this VCR post-dated the move to plastic chassis, all metal chassis.
It has 5 conductors on the ribbon cable. So basically enough for 1 for audio and 2 for video sharing a common ground. One likely for record and the other for play.
Hi Dave! I was going to say Funai, but it looks very different. One advantage for the video preamp inside the drum would be much lower noise, but one more thing to fail (unless stirring the smd caps at high speed keeps them from leaking...). The only thing you missed is the black ground wire that goes from the front panel to the chassis. Anyway, thanks Dave and best regards.
It's a samsung mechanism - it was used in samsung vcrs around 1999-2000, e.g in the SV-5000W/7000W multi-system decks, though with a normal video head drum with the motor on top. Later samsung vcrs (and vcrs they made for others like Sony) up until the end use an updated variant with the loading motor tilted forward and some other changes but based on the overall same design. Not sure what relationship toshiba had with samsung at the time or why they used it, the earlier models when they started the joint venture with thomson aroundd 94 to around a bit before this use a different mech though with the same setup with putting part of the drum motor on the main PCB. The high end toshiba and european thomson brand vcrs of the time came with this flying preamp setup while the lower end one had a normal head drum. Toshiba also sold some samsung-produced models around this time. Not long after this they seemed to have stopped with their own vcr subsidiary and outsourced vcr production to Orion though.
@@12voltvids This mechanism with the flying video preamp is the first for me. I think I saw a brochure back in the day about the flying video preamp that marketed this as better video quality with improved s/n ratio.
@moshezaharia4666 this was done by sony on the high end betacam sp decks for broadcast. SNR is improved because the losses in the rotary transformer are reduced as the signal is amplified ahead of it. At least on betacam the amplifier is accessible as its on the top of the drum.
Now the drive coils for the drum motor on the PC board, that's a new one to me. As mentioned before I have encountered a couple of flying preamp units. Something with possibly similar goals (lower noise) was RCA Victor's use of an IC preamp in headshell of their turntables used in their higher end consoles. This would have to be around 1968 because I remember the introduction of the RCA Victor TransVista solid state color TV around the same time and later than that it would have been just RCA with the new logo. Toshiba really messed up with that OSD. OSD off by default would make more sense.
It was a selling gimik however because the signal to noise really means very little. The only place the Snr would be slightly improved is in the chroma because the luminance is FM recorded so it won't make any difference at all.
@@12voltvids They probably just did this as a cost cutting measure. It does eliminate the enclosed, shielded head amp assembly and obviously would be cheaper in the production process.
An important detail is that I believe I am the only Brazilian who follows these repairs on televisions, record players, tape decks, valve devices for about 10 years or so.
Every time it gets unplugged the counter comes back on. But again (I commented on the previous vid) I swear the picture quality on these Toshibas can't be beat.
So its useless for archiving. Better not tell the owner that or he will tell me to keep it and won't pay for repair. Then I'll throw it away as its useless to me too.
Yeah, the always-on OSD is a pain. I have a few Toshiba and Panasonic remotes saved in my phone. If this happens, I can cycle through different OSD modes. I always leave it disabled if I can. The good thing is that many VCRs remember this and you don't have to repeat the procedure. Or you can just set "OSD disabled" in the menu.
@@12voltvids Yeah, I've got many virtual remotes in my phone just for that. Luckily my phone has a built-in IR blaster. These phones are quite rare nowadays.
Hello. Can someone tell me why all (Shorts) video on youtube android is so zoomed in? you lose so much image in height compare with the same video on (tiktok) or when you move the cursor you get a small window with a picture of the video, you can see how much picture you lose.
@@12voltvids Ok. I have visited tiktok on the internet and watched the same video which is also on youtube. The entire video is displayed correctly there! On youtube when I move the cursor to skip, I see a preview of the video and the video is displayed correctly. This happens on all short videos on youtube!
talking about woke. in Finland a bus company had a video about travelling in a bus without paying, and there was black people acting in the video. Well that got some white people angry and calling the bus company racistic. Later those black acters basically told the racist-accuser to shut their mouths, there was nothing racial about the ad exept in minds of pepople who like to offend from thins that dont consern them
03:08 - That's a first! This gotta be some sorta unicorn among the late generation VHS VCRs. This also goes right back where Cartrivision was at with their head drum design, also one of the camcorders did, shown on one of your videos some months earlier. Neat chassis tho, it's down to absolute bare minimum with moving parts. 23:07 - Those ladies are not so young these days. I'm just wondering if we're indeed going forward or backward with all this acceptance kinda stuff. What's next, full-body swimsuits on the beach again?? Are we going back to the early 20th century and beyond?? Because it heckin' does feel like that sometimes!
