VHBeta Frankentape. A Betamax tape in a VHS cassette. 

Because it takes him 28 minutes before he actually does what the title describes.

The entire first 10 minutes of the video features a betamax tape spool in a vhs cassette (the title)

I've read that clicking "Not interested" in the menu on your YT main page will automatically downvote the video. And the algorithms can be quite odd, so I can understand why people would sometimes do that.

I've often wondered about making an L1000 tape. I think in PAL lands that would give us a running time of about 260 minutes.

@@video99couk yeah, something like that. I'd have to look at my recorded refittet tapes, I always write the length of the recording on there.

@@video99couk just had one of those tapes in my hand. I got 4h30m, so 270 minutes on one of them.

Wow. I have a BASF E-300 tape and I had no idea what to do with it until I read this comment. :D

Already in the last century, I have routinely exchanged VHS tapes for Beta cartridges, of course new, not used. This was due to a lack of new Beta cartridges. This video reminded me nostalgically.

So did I 😂

Now the IPA route could be very useful with some tapes, like the bad miniDV ones I'm working on at the moment. Are you able to do this with miniDV?

I have systems in place to prevent that. Firstly I inform customers on the day that their work arrives. Next I start work on them nearly always within 24 hours, so they don't sit around. Finally, even when tapes are to be disposed of, I have a system for letting them "cool down" for a few weeks just in case a customer changes their mind. But in the end we are all human. I've lost the occasional thing, never a customer tape before transfer, but I did recently lose a blank USB stick. As for money, I don't bill the customer until I've done the transfer work. With very few exceptions, I don't expect payment up front.

Yes there were D5 and D9 formats, but by any real measure, they tanked. D-VHS did even worse, there were only two UK machines and they wouldn't even play each other's recordings. W-VHS was a disaster too. The biggest was probably MII, but that was hopeless too (I have MII machines here). So all attempts by Panasonic to get a professional version of VHS off the ground, just failed.

@@video99couk Although, having said that, Thames TV used MII to record studio and location footage for "The Bill".

@@davba2 Yes. One of my MII machines came from Thames.

Sellotape degrades badly over time, oozing its adhesive onto the tape. It then gets onto the head drum and can actually destroy a video recorder by snatching the head tips. Get proper splicing tape! For a snap at the end, it can be easier to get a spare spool from a scrap tape, and splice onto that. It doesn't matter if you end up with a longer than usual clear leader tape.

Yes, I could have, but I just preferred to use the clean spool.

That depends on the tape formats. VHS, Beta, 8mm, micromv, MII and Betacam formats all have readily available head cleaner tapes, though sometimes cleaning the tape path with IPA still has to be done. Some formats such as V2000 and Umatic, head cleaner tapes are either unobtainable or hard to find, so manual cleaning is the only way.

@@video99couk Thanks for the reply ive just uploaded a video on my channel where i have transfered VHS to file/DVD the video will be online tomorrow. My VCR is 2005 vintage so not too old. you should do a room tour of all your gear :-)

That would have been caused by sticky-shed tapes. The tape baking process might have made those playable without having to resort to your head-cleaner approach. Perhaps the paper head cleaner might have slightly reduced the head clogging with the mouldy tape, but I think the mouldy parts really were very bad indeed. There's always a risk to the heads too! Some Digital Betacam decks do automatically apply a head cleaner during playback when they detect errors.

The tapes had been baked also but still where giving of oxide.

You could have done a VH1500 Frankentape for cleaning! What a horrible thought. I'm planning on a N1500/1700/SVC RU-vid video in the next few weeks.

Looking forward to see. Actually I did something similar. But it was a EIAJ1500 frankentape. I use an old reel to reel VTR to clean the tape. It worked quite well.

Ah, that kind of brings me to one of my other evil creations. I made a tape polishing machine out of bits of Betamax tape rewinder, a V2000 reel motor, and a Betacam sapphire tape cleaning block. I wonder now if that might have had more success than the multi-thousand pound RTI TapeChek machine. It's not a pretty sight though. Maybe another RU-vid video about that monster one day.

I think V2000 has the same optical tape end sensor as VHS so at least you wouldn't have to worry about that. Did all the tape fit on a VHS spool?

It did work for me but results will vary according to the design of your particular player. It might be worth trying a different brand of VHS player. It was only good enough to spool the tape through, it wouldn't have been any good for playback though. Not that it would really play anyway of course.

Yes, just be aware that the leader tapes are different and the auto-stop system requires the correct leader to work.

I don't believe that mould adheres to the tape due to baking. But neither does it loosen the mould.

Yes, the tapes are the same. NTSC VHS Tapes also work in PAL recorders, just the playing time is different.

There's no harm at all in transplanting a VHS head cleaner into a Beta shell. If you can splice onto the foil leader tape, then the proper auto stop will function too. If you can't get a spare Betamax shell, a small Betacam BetacamSP shell will work just fine too.

You can use Betamax tapes on those Betacam machines which are designed for Oxide tapes, but most will only take BetacamSP or higher. Betamax recordings of course will not play on a Betacam machine since the formats are different. Oxide tapes won't hurt the drum however metal BetacamSP tapes shouldn't be used in (most) Betamax decks since they could cause excessive head wear. The exception being that ED-Beta(max) machines which are designed to work with BetacamSP tapes, but they are rare.

Mire lo que El hizo. Mitad uno mitad otro. El problema es que eso debe ser manual pasar la cinta a vhs. A las ruedas. Yo Tengo ese limpiador El tapecheck rti

No. The reasons are many but start with the head drum size being different and go from there. Interestingly, the same is not entirely true of Panasonic's answer to BetacamSP called MII. Some of those machines can play SVHS. As a result of this backwards compatibility, the head drum size and many technical aspects of MII were set to non-ideal specifications, in part causing the format to be unreliable as hell and bombing. So Sony were very right to not try to make Betacam decks play Betamax tapes.

@@video99couk Thank you for the explanation. I have a handful of Betamax tapes that I wanted to test but sadly I don't have a player. My place of work is getting rid of a Sony Betacam machine and I was hoping to use that to test them. I will have to try and find a Betamax player I guess.

@@TheSkipperVideos Or I could just run the tapes for you, contact me via my web site if you want me to run them. Maybe grab the Betacam machine though before it hits the skip. Some models are still of value.

No.

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I have a C format machine but need to do some work on it.

Tapechek rti helps a lot, I able to get one, it really cleans

They were both derived from Umatic and originally were supposed to be one format.

@@video99couk Thank you so much; that lends even *more* weight to the claim re the origins. Umatic was excellent quality for its time; Beta was not significantly worse, especially as we only had SD screens at that time. At first I couldn't understand why VHS succeeded in the US (allegedly because of recording time) as we (Australia) had three hour (L750=3.25 hours) tapes at the start! With the advent of L830 tapes (3.75 hours) very soon after, which could also be recorded at half speed (ie 7.5 hours), the additional time available on VHS cassettes (4/8 hours) seemed trivial. I can only suppose the *initial* impression in the US that NTSC Beta I could only record for one hour (at first) stuck in peoples' minds, even though this changed very quickly. In another vein altogether, I have *never* been able to reconcile why a PAL recording, with MORE data (720 x 576) took SO much less Beta tape than an NTSC recording (720 x 486) of the same time length, *despite* the frame rate difference! BTW, *always* a pleasure to watch your videos and they are always informative! Greatly appreciated; thank you Colin.

@@rahb1 I'm not aware of any Long Play PAL Beta video recorders, so check that one.

@@rahb1 The folk lore answer is that the Beta Group would not allow porn to be distributed on Beta tape - the VHS Group were not so prudish. Once the bookstores were filled with VHS porn Beta's chance of surviving were severely reduced :-)

@@barrieshepherd7694 That is a myth which has been debunked over and over. I had commercial porn on Beta.