Hii i was wondering so today I Ordered the Sony CCD-V9 Pro but I was wondering do you know what kind of battery it needs to make it work?

Dave, I am at VCF. Heard from Kyle from Kyle's video lab that you couldn't make it. So I gave him the camera to get it to you.

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How much was the cost in the 1989?

Incredible videos

Really love your channel Dave. I'm an indie filmmaker and your channel has really inspired me to make films with this old tech. You just can't replicate these classic images with new stuff!

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I just picked up at vl-AH160U. Do you know if these were intentionally mono audio?

Love this video! It inspired me to get one myself. You probably already figured this out...but...I just learned something about loading up the tapes. So, the camera's tape holder (the part that you slide the tape into) needs to be pushed in first before the external tape door is shut. If you put the tape in the holder and close the external tape door, the camera doesn't load the tape. It's a quirk, but I also found a free tape inside my camera...so bonus!

Dave, I have recently bought a Sharp Camcorder model VL-E630U and can not for the life of me find where to plug a power cord into it. Do you know where to plug a power cord in?

Funny. Just bought myself an H410 from eBay Germany. No idea if it's working, will have to find out.

Dave is my HERO! ❤

aliens will have exciting historcal videos of their earlier versions of ufo's that they sent to earth in the 1940s

Thanks for showing this! One thing that would concern me with this is Quality Degradation. Editing it together creates a 2nd Generation Copy, the Recorder gets it's signal via Composite I guess? Being an analogue copy will definitely lead to quality losses. Not to mention that VHS isn't that great to begin with, if one had discarded or overwritten the original tapes back in the day, they'd only have a worse copy on hand to digitize nowadays. Nowadays with vhsdecode you can make literally perfect copies of the tapes condition, but if your source tape is mediocre to begin with because it's like the second or third generation copy, there's not you can fix there.

hey, you might not see this but I'm having an issue. I recently got an XL2, horray, but no no horray there's a problem. Every time you insert the cassettes (TDK) the no cassette symbol appears. How do I fix this? Were they the wrong cassettes? i mean they fit into the xl2

Hello Dave, great video! Would I be right in thinking that the AC adapter for this perticular model would be the JVC AC POWER ADAPTER AA-V12 ?? As I am trying desperately to source one as I've just purchased this model myself! Also, would this charge the battery's? Tia!

One of these CineAltas is one of those things I’d buy if I weren’t into the time and money suck that is already high end audio, “just to have it” because of how cool it is and what it represents to the industry. I’m sure someone pointed this out on the livestream comments also but that display (camera side) is a VFD (*possibly OLED*) but definitely not an LCD. The VTR controller has an LCD. Which is amusing because when I saw the “VF Display” button I thought it was a toggle to turn that camera display on and off 😅. Then I remembered “VF” in camera nomenclature is more likely referring to the viewfinder, of course.

Man, it makes me so sad and almost upset to see such low views on these beautifully produced video segments you obviously put a lot of work into. Btw, I once owned a VL-DH5000U (I think that was the model, typing this as the video plays so if you’ve got that one I haven’t seen it yet). Fun camera. Edit: just saw you do in fact have it lol.

Nice to see it in person

Oh no ....i just saw a problem....tell me your not a Michigan dad? Byckeye here lol

Run a copper wire from the antenna to the antenna see if u get anything

Wish u brought to monitors and a coax long enough as the transmission to see the lag

Once that star wars worked id say by the look on your face and the dance you are in need of a towel.....its ok been there done that, perfectly normal 😢

Dave truly is using the force

Tell me that's your kick butt station wagon? I remember when i started in broadcasting in 1976 we actually used ford station wagons for tv vehicles. Driver, talent, camera, tech/audio operators and the back was all equipment. Alot of times back then we had to use coax drops to go live versus sat- link. Awesome memories. If it is your station wagon promise me when u buy a new car you keep that and turn it into a broadcast center

Edit controller would aggravate the crap outta me with no in/out point button not even an edit type button insert/assemble....is A/B roll an option

Do the vtrs and the edit control have backlit lcd menu display

Smashing vintage electronics makes me absolutely sick. Why would people ever do such idiotic things, especially considering the majority of viewers are probably collectors and watching videos to see things fixed, saved, and/or used. I, myself, just found one of these at a thrift and was super excited to get it and search videos on people using them. Seeing someone turn around and smash something with an amazing amount of good parts, pr even an AWESOME display or prop piece if nothing else, makes me absolutely sick. I would have LOVED to run across a parts machine to fix mine up. I guarantee it upsets many more viewers than it attracts, to do stuff like that. Offering stuff like that up to subscribers or something, from time to time, would gain views, likes, and comments instead of lose them. I thought I had found a fun channel...but i cant risk warching that level of stupidity again on a piece worth a LOT as parts to someone.... so sad and pointless.....

Well, informative but I lucked into the subsequent model - Canon L2 - which was a mild feature upgrade but also resolved the quality issues and has been working great for me for years. Finding batteries is a trip though ....

I've never used a Sharp Viewcam, but I remember them being relatively popular. I was always intrigued by how they deviated from the traditional camcorder design.

You got a whole army!