Two Philips V2000 format video recorders 

And the probability of any given V2000 machine working, is very low.

I remember the first time I saw Teletext, it looked like science fiction. Later Fastext TVs were certainly better.

Patrons often get to see videos early and occasionally bonus material.

@@video99coukWell okay, you talked me in to it.😉 Also, I am a patron already for a few channels, so I know how it works. And since 3 minutes ago also of this channel. Keep up the great content. 👍 Greetings from Jeroen. (In English pronounced as Juroon). 😎

I would like to add remote control to the 2334, let me know if you have any wiring information on that modification: colin@video99.co.uk

Yeah, your comment made me remember that I had identical looking machines but one had more knobs. Several for going slowly forward at different speeds or just one step. Also there was one that was in two halves. You could disconnect the two and connect a camera to the right half and with a battery and shoulder strap it was portable… sort of.. You wouldn’t want to walk around with that thing for too long. 😄

There was even a VHS recorder with the same housing…

No V2000 machine is reliable. Until I got the VR2324, my favourite was the Grundig 2x4 Super, but I'm going off that model due to poor back tension control towards the last few minutes of some tapes. The VR2024 may be repairable, but it really helps to have a spares machine so you can test panels to try to narrow down the fault finding.

@@video99couk yes that is my biggest issue having no parts to swap between the machines. That would make things so much easier ;) But I give up now, it consumes too much time and makes me unhappy having it but doesn't work. And looking for machines in the web they ask too much money for it. Specialy because they have their problem it makes no sense to me spending hundreds or Euros for another machine. I will be patient andy wait. If some day a machine for a reasonable price pops up or I "fall over" one, then it is time to go on here ;)

@@video99couk Oowyeah Grundig! I’ve had a few of those. 👍 Last one was a frontloading machine and I think it even was stereo. Reliability back in the day was pretty good. At least with the ones I owned. Had a LOT more trouble with VHS machines back in the day. The ‘broken’ v2000’s I got for free, I usually only had to clean the tape path and the heads. (Yes, really!) 🙂 And sometimes a tiny tiny drop of oil here and there in the mechanism where it was a bit stiff, and made a noise like it was struggling to work. 🙂 I could just listen to those machines and tell what was wrong before even opening them up. 😁 I heard a couple of familiar sounds with one of your machines. 😄 By the way, you also kind of solved an old mystery (old as in somewhere in the early ‘90’s) as to what was wrong with a machine with an intermittent error, that I could not fix back then. I wasn’t experienced at all when I started to ‘repair’ videorecorders. If it was mechanical, which it was a lot, I could repair that. The electrical part not so much. Or it had to be something very obvious. I learned all that later. Obvious like in, ‘Geeez, what’s this, you dropped this machine, or what?’ ‘Drop it? Noooo, of course not!’ And YES, he did drop it and something got unplugged. Or something, it’s all a bunch of very vage memory’s these days. 😄 (But it did look very familiar tho when you opened the machine up.) 👍

@@video99couk Question: Did Grundig have a recorder that looked like the second one in this video? Or is that just my own scrambled memory? Also, those things were not very light. Very heavy even. 😃 Some as heavy as an old tv.

@@video99couk VHS machines were also cheaper to repair, since parts cost less. Whether this was a natural consequence of the technology, or a cunning move by the manufacturers is unknown, though it is hard to see why VHS parts should be inherantly cheaper than Beta. Whatever the reason, this was another incentive to buy VHS - and another to avoid V2000, which as time went on gained a reputation for unreliability. One survey (in Which magazine) found that 59% of V2000 machines had been returned for repair, compared with around 25% for the other two formats. From Total Rewind.

I had that years ago on a VR2023 and traced it to a bad relay contact on the PCB under the deck.

Thanks, fixing that now. The address is quite easy to look up anyway, but it's bad practice to have it in the RU-vid video, I agree.

I often do that where it's possible. Other thumbnails include the Sanyo VTC5150 and Philips N1700. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VHT3QJ-r2w0.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-04FEiwxq5eA.html Most people probably don't notice, so well done.

WoW, your sharp man. 👌 I never noticed that. That certainly IS nice attention to detail. 👍