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- Oh no, I'm looking at a VHS deck again! This one seemed a bit more interesting than a run of the mill VHS deck from the 90s simply because of the use case this was designed to exist in. Let's see if this old thing actually works!
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I hope you feel better Adrian. Rest and recover. Don't push yourself too hard. All the best
Yes Goldstar is LG. LG actually stands for Lucky Goldstar the name came from the merger of the Lucky chemical company and Goldstar electronics. As a side note I think either late ‘90’s or early 2000’s their marketing department developed the tagline Life’s Good.
I wish they would bring back the lucky goldstar branding instead of pseudo branding as if they were an european traditional brand. south korea isn't bad for quality(now anyway), should embrace that. the lg branding makes it just look like it's random stuff from china like all the trad. brands are.
i still think fondly of a daewoo 32" crt I used to have 20 years ago. did everything, pal, ntsc and both in 50 and 60 and 50/60 rgb as well. was a great pairing to an og xbox.
Man I was going to say that thing about Goldstar becoming LG. And being all clever about it. 😎🤣
I never heard about that being
‘Lucky Goldstar’. Only about it being
‘Life’s Good’, which I thought was pretty lame as branding. But what do I know. 😁
@@MrJeroendemuzikant I have been in retail since the mid 80’s and have seen a lot over my lifetime. During the late 80’s to mid 90’s Korean brands were viewed as “cheap” and poor quality. Goldstar had that same reputation. LG was fully aware of that view at least here in the US. Kudos to them for recognizing it and relaunching their brand as LG. I only know of that back story because the retailer that I worked for at the time had training reps in that told the story when the LG brand launched with them. I think I remember them saying the merger of the two companies actually happened in the 50’s but since this was over 20 years ago maybe even 25 that I heard the story I am a little hazy on that.
Some people say "I would rather be lucky than good", but I don't know if that does or should pertain to chemical companies.
They also bought the Zenith brand out of Chicago.
This VHS was installed in Buses. All was designed to be easy to use It. Vibrations, positions, etc ..
I remember being on a Coach when they would get Cinema Releases for Trips, Best memory trip
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
I suspected it was used in a mobile environment.
Oh yes, I recall going from Slovakia to Greece by bus in 1999, via Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria (that's the longer way) because of the war in former Yugoslavia. We were sitting near the back of the bus, maybe about two thirds in, and the TV was at the front. Well, I think nobody could really see it, maybe the people in first or second rows of seats :D
Ergo the 12-volts
This model was quite common in RVs in the 90s and 2000svas well.
Tune in next week when Adrian repairs a Husqvarna sewing machine 😊
@@sarahgoo5541 would be continuity gold 🪙
This guy can repair almost anything
Maybe it uses a floppy drive??!
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 let's see if can run Doom
@@adriansdigitalbasement2 My wife's Brother embroidery sewing machine uses CF cards.
Sorry to hear about the stomach thing. Wishing you a fast recovery.
The heads on most 2-head VCRs are optimized for EP, so you'll get (almost) clean pause and fast-forward/reverse search in EP, but noise bars in SP or LP.
if you knew anything about VCR's you'd know it's bad to pause your tapes it damages them.
@@Shadowfoxxy30 WTF? talk about an attitude.
@@Shadowfoxxy30 You're telling vwestlife he doesn't know anything about VCRs? Lol.
Do 6-head VCR have (almost) clean pause and FF/RW in EP, SP and LP?
Heh after making the video, I played an EP tape and yes this was instantly evident! I surely knew this at some point but then forgot it.
I'd recommend probiotic yoghurt. That seems to help my stomach get back into shape with the right enzymes.
or probiotics in general.
That's a really good idea. I eat yogurt often and also take a probiotic pill every day.
My family bought a full size van (sometimes called conversion vans?) in the mid to late 90's and it had one of these inside. I remember watching the Bruce Lee film several times on the color TV in there. It sat inside this wooden cabinet in between the two front seats, built into the center console. I remember the picture being pretty decent and this felt like the height of technology, watching movies in your VAN! Wow!
My dads handicap 1993 Ford van had the same set up.
I love conversion vans!
Yup! These were very popular in conversion vans also!
technically speaking it's not a VCR but rather a VCP since it can't record
Yah! Someone else is bothered by that too!
The silkscreen on the bottom circuit board is even marked "VCP". Back in the day, we called them a movie box.
Technically correct: the best form of correct 😅
Glad you’re on the mend, Adrian! My parents had a high-quality late-90’s Sony VCR, and that’s how I remember the pause looking! Oregonian greetings from Canby!
Having a VCR paired to a colour (trinitron) TV in your RV/boat was a super luxury. We had a b&w TV that needed hitting to make it work and I thought that was fancy 😅
Exactly. This immediately brought me back to seeing the pimped family vans and RVs at dealerships in the 90s. You had to be doing _alright_ to be cruising around in a van with a TV and VHS deck.
I remember a friend had a conversion van with a 9" color TV and a VCR just like that in it. They also had a SNES wired into the system. Pretty effective way to keep the early 90s kids occupied on long car trips.
I can't help thinking about the moment in Clint's video where a decision was made to visit Whataburger....
Those were also common with truck drivers because of how tight sleeper cabs are.
The jack on the modulator is there for the tuner if it was so equipped with on it allowed the antenna signal to be passed to a built in tuner-they made them in that form factor for years and the modulator works just fine as a stand alone modulator without a tuner plugged into it-why would a manufacturer make multiple devices like a modulator for a vcr with a tuner and one for a vcr without a built in tuner-just use the one-saves on having to manufacture different parts to obtain the same goal
Strictly speaking it was called a VCP. I bought one to edit tapes when I recorded Doctor Who off WCNY in the late eighties and early nineties knowing that PBS might not repeat the same Doctors over again. And at the time I did not have the income for 2 VCRs. VCPs were cheaper. And the second RF port was because most people had CRTs without RCA inputs on them. It was a bypass so we would not have to unplug our cable TV every time we wanted to just watch TV.
I actually have a recorded VHS tape that somehow has the recording at the very start after the leader that I have not been able to properly capture due to all the VCRs I have having a OSD that shows up when I try to rewind and play that part of the tape so the fact this VHS Player does not have any OSD is great for my need of wanting to preserve that tape's entire contents. Also this helped me realize I really need to pull my main VCR apart and grease it up and do a better cleaning job on it to preserve it's proper operation.
Many VCRs have different modes for the OSD such as always counter always visible. One of these options should suppress the OSD completely.
I've used a bunch of VCRs over the years... I think due to a combination of buying the next level up from the cheapest and buying the only thing we could afford. Although somehow we were luckier than another family member I knew who just kept destroying the cheap ones they got. Some of them don't do that some of them do and some of them let you toggle it in the menu if you can get into the menu without the remote. It is so annoying that they Blue out on static so quickly. And then that's complicated by the capture card doing the same thing.
That VCR (VCP technically?) would have been common on tour buses as well. I have memories of watching movies on bus rides during band trips back in the 90s, and they had VCRs like this, and CRT monitors hanging from the ceiling.
It's a Videocasette Reader :D
@@gentuxable There are no record functions on this unit so it's Video Cassette Player.
I appreciate you taking the time to share your more personal things like being sick and your diabetic things. It helps ground us in reality, that, although RUclipsrs may be famous to us, they are also just regular people like us too.
I recently got diagnosed type 2 diabetic, and it’s nice knowing I’m not the only one, and since I watched your videos for so long, I kinda knew what to eat and drink to help manage my sugar. Gotta get some of that tang, though! Been wanting to try that🎉
I did get some tang after chatting with Adrian about this topic at VCFMW. The mango one is good, and I will try the other flavors.
Lithium grease is petroleum based and is not good for plastic. Polyurea grease is the slightly amber colored grease you always see in plastic gears from the factory.
I was in Houston TX last week myself. Caught what feels a lot like a covid variant. Wiped me out for days. Could not/did not want to eat, just wanted to sleep. Taste and sense of smell was gone. Body aches, fever, congestion/cough, you name it.
Have had a couple of different versions, and this felt just like it. Finally ate for the first time today (5 1/2 days cans food), and it was good! But yeah, the old stomach was NOT happy with food in it after being empty for so long.
And it was chili mac, because i woke up this Wednesday dreaming about chili mac (a favorite of mine). So i had to make homemade chili mac, and it tasted amazing. And while my tummy was a bit upset, everything stayed down. So i'm calling that a win!
The smooth connector on the rf unit is the standard for Sweden, we almost never use threaded connectors for antenna/rf signals. In the 80´s and 90´s we had rental video players they called a movie box that was mounted in a vinyl/plastic carrying case, even they would have the smooth rf connector. Yours was probably sold on many markets so they simplified the design to save on parts.
I remember these player only VHS things from video rental companies too here in Finland. Buying VCR late 80's was expensive thing to do, so that's why there was a rental players, just rent a video and player.
Oh that looks like an RCA connector to me on the side of the RF circuit. But yes Europe uses a different RF connector.
And it's cool to know that rental VHS devices were available there outside of the blockbuster and Hollywood video of the US.
Never did rent one but always wondered what the process would be like.
@@imark7777777 You had very basic controls with play stop ff and fr usually it had a tracking control besides eject that´s it. we used to rent them with videos/tapes we wanted to copy if we had a vcr at home but not all vcrs could record of them because of copy protection, but some could.
At the 34:01 minute mark I totally thought Adrian somehow reached into the video and poked the sewing machine.
i vaguely remember the old style camcorders with vcr’s. my dad had a betamax when i was born and dropped it down the stairs at a mall in New Hampshire and it smashed in a million pieces.
the vhs one we had was a panasonic i want to say and we had that one for years as well. till a tape got stuck in it and my dad took it apart to get the tape out and never put it back together.
Those chamois cleaning sticks were the best thing to use. You can actually clean them with the same fluid you use the clean the heads (regular old IPA works fine, at least that's what we used to use back in the day). Those sticks really only wear out if the chamois comes off the stick, or the surface of the chamois is damaged. They are actually very robust little items.
And they are the absolute best for cleaning heads in a VCR (or audio tape deck for that matter.)
I saw the front of this VCR In the thumbnail and freaked out. My grand parents had this VCR in their Van, along with a tiny TV. The nostalgia is real.
As 90s kids we watched many many movies on that thing.
I have a nice Sony CRT/VHS combo and I love to watch some of my old VHS tapes every so often for the nostalgia. Plus, I just think they're neat! it's such a cool technology that a lot of people took for granted back in the 90s
These look like the little machines you could hire from video shops in the uk if you didn’t own a player of your own. They would be fitted in a large carry box. This version seems to be for use in a mobile situation, we used them in coaches.
I remember having a "play only" VCR for some time, it was so frustrating. It was another brand, a local brand that only a local store sells. The day we got it they didn't have recording ones in stock, the price was the same, but my dad said "we don't need recording anyway" and bought the "play only" one. Arrrrrghhhhh. Years later I got my own NORMAL VCR that recorded, but it always felt like I missed out for a few years.
Oh bless Adrian, sorry you weren’t feeling100% but well done on another entertaining video. Really like your videos and have learnt SO much since subbing to your channel.
Very cool! Growing up, there were a few times when we were living in a travel trailer. At the time, we had a Sanyo TV/VCR combo unit that had the dual voltage input like that VCR. Pretty neat!
I pray you feel better really soon!
My dad had a Goldstar mini VCP (video cassette player!) at his dental office for playing instructional videos for his patients. I used to borrow it over the weekend for copying rental videos from the video rental (with the aid of some RCA cables and an image stabilizer [copy protection defeating device] ordered from a classified ad in Popular Science 😂 ).
We had a similar one that my brother grabbed out of the trash pile at his university when the dorms were being cleaned out at end of term in about 1996. It was originally in a rental case from the local Video store before we shucked it out. The power brick was integrated into the case, but could be removed.
Most VCRs should be pretty agnostic about their physical orientation.
never seen a VHS constructed like this ,quite interesting,good serviceability , external fuse ... the extra plug on the tuner could be for a Aerial plug or for test/calibration proposes .
OMG Sue Hausmann!! My wife would watch her sewing show back in the 90s!!
I think a very common place to find these was aircraft and long distance buses, which usually had a series of TVs along the aisle for in-flight/drive movies.
Get well soon Adrian, I was worried! I've really been enjoying the Plexus videos (reminds me of some of the DEC gear I used when I first started working full-time).
Haven't seen a VCP in awhile. Thanks for the video Adrian!
My grandparents owned a late nineties Dodge conversion van that had one of these tucked away in a cabinet.
This would be the sort of thing they would also use on coaches (hence the looped playback) to entertain people on a long journey, or to just bombard them with promo ads to drive them insane, because there's nothing like blasting ads to a captive audience... :P
Ha, I remember repairing those. They had extension leads in the service kit to connect between the head amp/breakout board and the main pcb to allow the machine to run while servicing. They were actually an ok machine, no frills and quite reliable with just the usual (blue in this case) mode gear cam groves cracking and mode switch problems. Those were the days when the budget brand of Lucky Goldstar re-branded to just Goldstar, and then soon after in 95 re-branding again to just LG, which to this day are still the initials for the companies actual true full name which is Lucky Goldstar electronics, so go figure with that branding strategy!
That Jack on the modulator-module is typically the aerial output that would be connected to the tuner module on VCRs that can record. I guess they just used the same modulator for this player.
I had a awesome Goldstar set around that size of the TV you showed. Maybe a tiny bit bigger. Must've been from the late 60's early 70's. Had the clicky knobs. I wish I still had it and the NTSC RCA set I had that had SCART and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Totally having flashbacks. Back in the day when my Dad ran a video rental store they had the straight A/C versions for rental use. Came in a big ole blow molded case.
I remember the big blow mold rental cases!
get well soon, and enjoy the old electronics
It's kind of a miracle videotape works at all, really. That they eventually got them so cheap and reliable is more miracles on top of miracles.
Oh yes, VHS goodness! Still play VHS tapes at home (but of course I would :D ) and recorded some newer stuff onto them via an HDMI-AV adapter. It's worth it for the cozyness of watching tapes on a CRT again these days alone.
be careful with windex with ammonia, often times the ammonia can eat plastics slowly over time.
I personally use ammonia-free windex when it comes to electronics, not only is it safer for the environment, it's safer around tech.
I just use store brand but you can get name brand too.
Probiotics is a great help to get my stomach back to normal again, also during / after treatment with antibiotics.
I remember going on school camps in the late 80s/early 90s and the coach bus had a builtin TV and VCR
This VCP is designed to be put in the driver seat pouch so the kids can watch Aladdin in the back seats of the Grand Caravan.
I understand all too well on 'side effect' illnesses... for me, any cold, flu, etc. makes my asthma flare up and it takes weeks / months to settle down. Here's hoping you get past it quickly!
A friend had a conversion van with one of these in it.
My family had what was probably one of these _exact_ models when I was younger, specifically for use on our boat! It was a great unit in that application, both for size and the ability to power it off 12V. It didn't give us any grief as far as I recall, regardless of the orientation.
An old LG... I remember some that had the name Lucky on them as well. We joked that we'd be Lucky if it worked. I believe they changed their name to LG in 1995.
Lucky Goldstar sold in the back of cvs and cheapo stores. i’m glad they stepped up the quality
Hi Adrian) Get well and don't get sick. Thank you so much for the video. I very rarely write comments, even though I have been a subscriber to your channel for a long time) As soon as your videos come out on RUclips, I always immediately like them, because I know in advance that there will be something interesting) As for the tape recorder, I really have never seen a VCR that runs on a power supply. And Goldstar is really LG. I have a Goldsar TV and audio cassettes.
I’ve honestly never heard/seen the term “trick play” before.
Time for Japanese 80s fancy digital toilet review done in digital basement.
I had an Emerson VCR my dad bought in 1985ish that broke in 1991 by pausing the tape and rewinding a few times quickly. I took it to the local TV/VCR repairman and asked for a quote but the dummy called a week later wanting $90 for the fixing it. That is over $200 calculated with inflation. I bought a Goldstar a while later just like the GCP-C135 but the earlier version that only was only playback and also12V powered. I loved that little VHS player, bought another Goldstar VCR in 1999 and lasted about 15 years except the LED display got faded from using it so much so I retired it when the belts worn out.
Sounds like my crazy stomach thing i have been fighting with since i was young. Just stops processing food, only thing that helps most the time is water and riding my bike miles hard and fast or working in the yard and getting that metabolize working again. Hope you get well soon.
Hope you'll feel better soon
Hopefully the nausea passes soon enough Adrian!
Had something similar in my sleeper when driving cross country back in the 90's... Hope you kick the bug soon. Additionally, those swab sticks look to be available on DigiKey still. DigiKey Part Number: CC50-ND
Thankyou for showing what the flat headed cleaning sticks from other videos are called. Good thing your sparing with them though, 75$ for a pack of 50 ouch.
Thank you! Feel better!
Hello Adrian, hope you're feeling better. A small tip: Chamois is pronounced as sha-moaa... it's a French word describing basically skin of the goat antelope (Chamois) that lives in the Pyrenees mountains on the border between France and Spain. Fun fact: professional bicycle athletes wear chamois inlays in their pants to absorb excess sweat... I'm told it makes sitting on the sadle for a long while "a lot more comfortable" :D
However, don't take my word for it, you should try it out yourself to experience whether that is true or not LOL
In America (and parts of Anglophone Canada) We pronounce it "shammy". Primarily to make the Frogs twitch and writhe.
My parents had a video store back in the late 70s thru the early 90s . These vcr were designed as a rental unit with a 120 volt power supply
I'm not sure with this unit but a few systems used petroleum jelly as a lubricant on the gears. Also I remember fixing these as a kid at the store and one came in with a peanut butter sandwich inside of it.
Sewing video was quite interesting, you should share it to some archives. :)
40:14 It depends. VHS may be obsolete now, but I've seen people still use them specifically for Hi-Fi audio. As someone who used to have a good quality Panasonic VCR, the Hi-Fi audio is really good.
What a cute VCP and in such good condition :) I actually still had a fancy hi-fi stereo Sony VCR of that vintage that I'd had from new until we bought this house 7yrs ago (smaller house - the VCR and its tapes had to go, but I kept my Amigas, lol)
As many others already pointed out, it was quite common to find those portable VCPs on coach tour buses (If I remember correctly, even Greyhound, in these parts!).
When you mentioned early attempts at recording video to VHS with portable players, that brought back memories of my dad lugging around such units and an equally sizeable video camera on a few family holidays 😂
- Thanks for that fun little "break" from regular, often "meaty" content - hope your current ailment goes away quick smart 👍
You probably had a viral infection - norovirus or standard viral gastroenteritis. We all got that as kids, but it's much worse for adults. Sometimes salmonella takes some days to establish itself - that's a bacterial infection and that IS from food. That can take a couple of weeks to clear up. Feel better!
I think lithium grease can degrade plastics. Better use silicone grease when there's plastic involved.
Did you know that Husqvarna also made rifles and firearms? :) I actually own one. But then again I live in Sweden where they are based so its like having a Volvo here. They also dabble into robot lawn mowers and such :)
Feel better soon
I ran a cheap store-brand (Shintom manufactured) VHS VCR for several years placed on its side in the bedroom due to lack of space, and it was fine. So I think this was a standard thing for these machines.
VHS did start out unlacing the tape on FFWD/REW but by about 1985 most machines permanently laced the tape. Betamax laced up from day one, although the Sanyo VTC5000 series of the early to mid 1980s unlaced, and I think it tells its own story that these machines proved to be far more reliable than the Sony and Toshiba competition despite being cheaper - the heads didn't fail on them. The Sanyo was the best selling VCR in the UK in 1982-3, and there are still hundreds if not thousands of them still working today. They're not perfect - early units had a nasty little firmware bug that caused the tape to lace up on rewind if the machine detected a stall, which would lead to chewed up tapes if you ejected after this without hitting stop first, but overall they were real workhorses.
I had one of these mounted in a late 90s suburban, in the cargo area to the inside roof. It ran to a 5 or 7 inch fold down LCD screen mounted between the front seats from the roof. Obviously for the back passengers (kids) only. It had a small flat credit card sized remote that you had to point back at the VCR. The sound went through the trucks speakers via a manual toggle switch. This was a "top of the line" after market job on a dealerships demo suburban. I bought it used a few years later.
Hope your feeling better soon.
Who knew Husqvarna made sewing machines? I always learn something watching Adrian
Husqvarna is one of the oldest companies in Sweden. THey've also made kitchenware and rifles. My parents home had all Husqvarna kitchenware. The sauna was Husqvarna.
I know basically nothing about sewing machines but this one sure seems extra fancy! (But then again, what do I know, maybe it's super bare bones?)
I have a Husqvarna Viking sewing machine. My grandma bought it back in the 80s specifically because it was made in Sweden. (She was Swedish.)
They made washing machines etc too. :)
They make lawn equipment, lawn mowers weed eaters chainsaw, they make dirt bikes,... It's so strange to me that someone that makes dirt bikes makes sewing machines lol
I used to record my PS1 gameplay on a VHS tape in 2000s, don't know why.
Ncommander once said on stream that he never wipes his butt, I hope you washed your keyboard after he used it!
Those chamois tips are somewhat popular for cleaning game cartridges since they fit basically exactly between the plastic shell and the card connector without disassembling the cart and don't leave fuzz behind like cotton buds often do. I usually see them in kits with other "game cart cleaning supplies" so I didn't know they had a specific name besides "the wide and flat swab"
I did it with a cotton ear swab and IPA to clean the heads. It worked fine. I do not miss cleaning those.
the vhs under my dad’s seat had winter bootswith snow ice and rock salt on them sitting right on top. the case was t even damaged. this is back when they made stuff to last not like now where stuff lasts for a minute then breaks.
get a denim needle never buy the cheap thread you can go cheap on everything else cheers that all i know about sewing machines
So, this VCR is in fact a VCP.
17:21 - The moving post is what controls the felt band tension. So, if the post gets pushed to the right due to increased tape tension, that loosens up the band, and vice versa.
19:37 - Counter Clockwise. I had to do a double check on one of Dave's videos, so I got it correctly. It's CCW. The head drum spins in the same direction as the tape passes by on, to help it move forward.
28:21 - That's how the brake mechanism works; at the start of fast winding the brakes, being spring loaded, are getting 'wound up' into a position where at the end of it they just get released to snap against the spindles for instant braking action. This is completely normal.
30:35 - On the bottom of the picture there's usually a pulse of 'noise' (in alternating spots between the frames, but there's just one actually), that's the very spot where the switch between the heads occur; interestingly, the engineers of practically all magnetic tape formats decided that it won't happen in a blanking area, but just a few lines before the active picture area ends. I assume the practical reason for this is making the head switching visible without having to use a special monitor that can be desynced, to monitor tape tension, but without impacting much of the screen area. Incorrect tape tension can cause a horizontal 'shear' effect on the lines immediately after the head switch. The position of head switch pulse also changes along with changes made in the tracking, relative to the horizontal sync pulse. IMHO that was a missed opportunity of implementing tracking without the use of a linear tracking signal, sensing the time relation of the head switch pulse and the horizontal sync pulse. AFAIK, no manufacturer did that.
Any VCR is supposed to be able to operate in any position. The cassette door tends to jam in some tho, in my experience.
Feel better soon, Adrian!
Careful, If you hold it upside down all the electrons will fall out. 😂😊
I remember these on my 24 hours long bus holiday trip to Croatia. Same TV and VCR style. Was watching Desperados. Core memories.
We had one of those in school.. well something similar it didn’t have a display and it was tiny
hoosk varna??? of course it is! but we all said husk varna
I used to use silicone grease back when I was a technician. It was what most manufacturers recommended. Lithium is OK, though.
Good to hear my DIY instincts were right!
As with most of the old tech on this channel there is a nostalgia factor, but I hope some clever person will look at the insides of this old VHS cassette player and think of something new to do with it.
LG= Lucky Goldstar
A laserVision demo, on a VHS, oh dear!!!
I know I am nit-picking but when people call a VCP (which this is) a VCR just gets to me...but I get it, VCP machines really went against the whole purpose of a VCR, VHS (and other formats) were always advertised as a recording machine...nowhere on a VCP does it ever say "VCR" or "Video Cassette Recorder"....they will usually say "VCP" or "Video Cassette Player" like this machine does on the back of it. Also the model number "GVP-C135", the first 3 letters is "Goldstar Video Player"
GoldStar was half of LG, the L came from Lucky Chemicals. They merged 1983 into Lucky-Goldstar.
I had a few of these exact units in my limousine collection
3:26 - not really, they decided not to. My Elekta PAL/SECAM VCR which possbly was made by Aiwa, has the recording functionality via composite and it's small and 220 volts and 12 volts too. However adding a tuner back in the 90s to these portable VCRs was impossible since those old analog tv tuner heads required 30v to tune them, and it would possibly increase the size too. If you wanted to record tv broadcasts on a non tuner recording vcr (oddly they called these things "video cassette players with line recording" by manufacturers) you needed a TV that converted the RF to IF and converted IF to composite video with audio (quite common in Eastern Europe) (those are the mysterious video outputs on TVs, they also decoded RF to composite for those VCRs with no tuners)
Technically it is NOT a VCR because VCR stands for Video Cassette Recorder.