The display is not LCD. It looks like LED or VFD. The 5-pin DIN connector used to be pretty common for audio signals in Europe. These days everybody uses 2xRCA, which was the US standard to begin with.
The reason why the tape spindles didn't play when you had the cassette in, from what I can see,, is that you didn't switch the machine's mode back into "video", you had it switched up to "timer". The reason why nothing moved when you subsequently didn't have a cassette in and pressed play was because the machine detected that there was no cassette present. Changing the video mode switch (as in the switch on the front, not the servo relay in the machine also called the "mode switch") to "video" would enable it to play with a cassette inside.
Hi there, thanks for the useful info. Haven't had a chance to get back to the lab in ages but will post an update video if any progress is made. Thanks for all the advice! :D
my dad had 1 of these the jvc version, I always remember him servicing it on our kitchen table, the thing was a work of art, couldn't believe how many belts this thing had underneath even the headdrum was belt driven, he replaced all of them and fired it up, amazing seeing it all working with the covers off though.
Rented one of those from Rediffusion in 1980-81. Ours bore the Ferguson brand name (like the one in the video it was really a rebadged JVC). I think the rental was about £22 per month, though the cost did gradually go down. If I remember rightly, the timer could only be set for one event, and there was noticable tape hiss on the audio. On the plus side, the build quality was better than later machines, and it was pretty impressive for the time (but not impressive enough to rent for more than a year - we bought a Sony C5 Beta machine to replace it; the Sony performed quite a bit better).
The coaxial video connectors were popular in the 70s, I had a 1970s Hitachi (Saticon tube) CCTV camera I pulled apart with those connections. The name escapes me but really just a larger F connector. The "weird 5-pin" thing looks like a DIN connector, very popular on 1970s and 80s JVC-made VHS decks like yours. Some machines made by JVC for the Thorn groups of companies like yours was were fitted with special DIN connectors that also included pins for connecting full-featured wired remote controls to them as opposed to the simple remote controls these also optionally came with (you have a socket on yours for one of these, marked "remote". They were so simple they only had a "pause" button). Yours, a fellow mid-20s vintage electronics collector and restorer.
Haha, yeah i friend of mine collects piles of them. I'm going to start uploading more videos to this channel soon and i might pay him a visit so he can show off his collection :)
HI With a Machine of this Vintage It Is nearly always the Belts. The rubber Belts Perish and go like Glue. Also the Grease on the Mechanism will turn to a Blob and You said It had Nicotine In there to this can Congeal on things to. Clean the whole thing out and Re-Grease with Modern Silicone Grease. And Be careful taking things off the Plastic Parts. They become Hard and Brittle DON'T force anything get a Hairdrier and Gradually warm It up till It releases. Clean Everything be careful of the Heads Do Not rub them Up and Down always Side to Side with a Proper Suede Cleaning Brush. Good Luck.
You can clearly see he had no idea how to run it correctly.
i use to service that video recorder back in the 80s.
Had this back in the mid 80s :)
The reason why the VCR didn't play (11:10) is that you set the machine in timer instead of power on (10:50).
Pretty sure that was our first family VCR back when I was 6 or 7. Ahh, the memories! Nice video.
The display is not LCD. It looks like LED or VFD. The 5-pin DIN connector used to be pretty common for audio signals in Europe. These days everybody uses 2xRCA, which was the US standard to begin with.
Jaap Weel we had these in the US during the 70s but not very long. In the 80s it was gone.
The reason why the tape spindles didn't play when you had the cassette in, from what I can see,, is that you didn't switch the machine's mode back into "video", you had it switched up to "timer".
The reason why nothing moved when you subsequently didn't have a cassette in and pressed play was because the machine detected that there was no cassette present. Changing the video mode switch (as in the switch on the front, not the servo relay in the machine also called the "mode switch") to "video" would enable it to play with a cassette inside.
Hi there, thanks for the useful info. Haven't had a chance to get back to the lab in ages but will post an update video if any progress is made. Thanks for all the advice! :D
my dad had 1 of these the jvc version, I always remember him servicing it on our kitchen table, the thing was a work of art, couldn't believe how many belts this thing had underneath even the headdrum was belt driven, he replaced all of them and fired it up, amazing seeing it all working with the covers off though.
It's not working because you didn't put it in Video mode.
Most schools in the UK had the JVC version of these in the early '80s...A beauty!
I love that machine! I had a massive JVC Top-Loader when I was a kid and I miss it so much I'm always prowling eBay for something similar.
First VCR mad JVC in year 1976. Model is : JVC HR-3300
1980 vhs didn't take off til the 80's & I could have shown you how to use this one as my parents use to own one
This is badge engineered version of original JVC piano key VCR HR3300 (and 1 or 2) Cant remember. Great machines.
I had the 7100 UM (1983) with wired remote and color buttons... (top loader) remember
that giant 12:00 flashing.
supermasterPIK Are you in Brazil?
No, Chile.
I used to have one of these back in the day
Maybe just run wires soldered to the back of those video connectors, so you can connect it to a tv with a composite video input.
Rented one of those from Rediffusion in 1980-81. Ours bore the Ferguson brand name (like the one in the video it was really a rebadged JVC). I think the rental was about £22 per month, though the cost did gradually go down. If I remember rightly, the timer could only be set for one event, and there was noticable tape hiss on the audio. On the plus side, the build quality was better than later machines, and it was pretty impressive for the time (but not impressive enough to rent for more than a year - we bought a Sony C5 Beta machine to replace it; the Sony performed quite a bit better).
The coaxial video connectors were popular in the 70s, I had a 1970s Hitachi (Saticon tube) CCTV camera I pulled apart with those connections. The name escapes me but really just a larger F connector.
The "weird 5-pin" thing looks like a DIN connector, very popular on 1970s and 80s JVC-made VHS decks like yours. Some machines made by JVC for the Thorn groups of companies like yours was were fitted with special DIN connectors that also included pins for connecting full-featured wired remote controls to them as opposed to the simple remote controls these also optionally came with (you have a socket on yours for one of these, marked "remote". They were so simple they only had a "pause" button).
Yours, a fellow mid-20s vintage electronics collector and restorer.
Haha, yeah i friend of mine collects piles of them. I'm going to start uploading more videos to this channel soon and i might pay him a visit so he can show off his collection :)
I like Flicky Switches too!
Very nice video bro
Keep going
When the Oliver Sykes doing a review about VCR
I have radio model no. R C-S55w
Are you in a pal country?
Yes. UK is/was PAL. They have obviously switched to DVB-T2.
HI With a Machine of this Vintage It Is nearly always the Belts. The rubber Belts Perish and go like Glue. Also the Grease on the Mechanism will turn to a Blob and You said It had Nicotine In there to this can Congeal on things to. Clean the whole thing out and Re-Grease with Modern Silicone Grease. And Be careful taking things off the Plastic Parts. They become Hard and Brittle DON'T force anything get a Hairdrier and Gradually warm It up till It releases. Clean Everything be careful of the Heads Do Not rub them Up and Down always Side to Side with a Proper Suede Cleaning Brush. Good Luck.
a lot of the old vcrs just send try an the video out through an rf modulator so you could just try an rf cable
1980
Great machine..This was the dogs bollocks in its day...
12 minutes of clueless babbling, almost nothing of value and sooo much misinformation...