Portable VHS... in 1986? The Citizen VCP-5MU is ahead of its time!

This is a really cool portable VCR (actually, it's a VCP) from 1986 that I managed to pick up at a flea market a couple weeks ago. I thought it was interesting and worth sharing. Hope you guys like it as much as I do. It's the Citizen VCP-5MU portable VHS player.
We discuss the history of video tape, I find myself embarrassed by what I was like when I was little, and we see some neat old videocassette tapes.
Dust off your shoulder pads because we're heading to the 80's for this one.
Technology Connections' excellent video explaining the guts of video tape machines- • The VHS cassette was m...
Also, keep the comments civil, folks. I'm VERY liberal with the delete function. ALL political statements WILL be removed. Period.
Image credits-
Ampex machine and U-Matic tape are used under the Creative Commons license- creativecommon...

[@bsanchez3563]

Please note that the power requirments of the cigarette lighter are not as great of high draw wiribg connected or capable of handling hifher loads than say the car or truck outlet for as such probably best not to plug older or high load devices like that player into a cigarette lighter if bot ph the cig lighter and power outlet for car outlets or a newer vehicle like ford escapes thatvhave a ac household outlet built into them for phone chargers.. assuming those can handle the load either.

[@AudioThrift]

Good point. Pinning this for others to see.

[@EyeOfUltraSol]

I really dig the eighties industrial aesthetic you mentioned, I hope it comes back around! Great video!

[@AudioThrift]

I agree! It is! I commented earlier thinking you were talking about something else. lol
That stuff is rad though! Like, totally radical! :)

[@RetroPlus]

This is one of my new favourite channels, i love this kind of old obsolete tech

[@AudioThrift]

Thank you so much! As long as the estate sales and thrift stores continue to bear fruit, there will be plenty more videos to come!

[@Kalvinjj]

Pretty cool that it's a color CRT even, whenever I see those small CRTs I always assume they're black & white, around here I've barely seen any (really, never seen in person any) around 5" CRTs that were in color.

[@Mutato-]

Just saw one today in a Thrift store, It was only $10. I may have to go back and get it.

[@AudioThrift]

Oh snap... if it works, grab it. Ten bucks is a great deal! Get a crappy tape to test it with in case the eject is funky like mine was.

[@Mutato-]

@@AudioThrift It was very dirty, like sitting in a garage for years.

[@AudioThrift]

Hmm... that's a tough one. Sometimes they clean up well but often times I skip over stuff that's not perfect. Up to you, man. 🤷‍♂️

[@WarriorProphet]

I had an 87 conversion fan that had this mounted in the raised roof for the rear seat, lol, nostalgia brain.

[@whaka54000]

if you really like that kind of cool gadget from the 80's, maybe you should also look for the hitachi VT-680.
it was more ahead of it's time as it was a real vcr, with external tuner option, camera connector, A/V in and out, etc... and released in mid 82 :)

[@AudioThrift]

Yeah, I definitely need one of those.

[@nekronimus_IV]

So rad.

[@AudioThrift]

You're rad!

[@sweatarts90210]

❤️

[@bsanchez3563]

I remember alway wanting or thinking how cool the idea of both hte vcr and tv turning on at once I do not know why so I would set the tv in my room on top of the tv an try to turn both on exactky in sync using both hands on the respective power buttons lols,. And it iirc fairly likely did I know at least some times,. Have a hard time because the tv being heavy to not be a hinder to vcr movement inside.. thus if I went back I would prpbably take it from mysekf an state nah bruh you will just break it,. Risk wear out excessively on the vcr motor etc,,
Lol pretending it was a combo unit lol.. but yeah I shoukd have for sure jept that tv vs buying one that was a flat panel or modern.. well pfft not a smart tv but a tv nonetheless from 2011 where its a singke hdmi but also a shared audio for component and composite so it needs a y adapter or two to be using both the yellow port and the component ports since only one red right audio in and one white audio left is beside the 4 same rca connector styel video ports for yellow and the component ie ypbpr or red green and blue.. the luminance green with sync on green so h/v inckuded for anything not sent in a blue or red is defaukt green by defacto in the picture.