1974 Sony U-matic VO-2610

[@zhaohaigaogu7821]

修理してよみがえるととても素晴らしいでしょう。大変難しいのはビデオヘッドでした。

[@jeffdavis7872]

I think these were 6K when they first were introduced! Wow!

[@jasonhaman4670]

U-matic was intended for home use, but was just too expensive, so that waited for Beta to fulfill. My high school in the early-mid 90s still had several Panasonic U-matic VCRs (and a bunch of tapes recorded off-air back when it was current tech), similar size/design as this one. IIRC, on the Panasonics, you didn't push the cassette basket down, the VCR lowered it when you pressed a transport control. I'm still curious why Sony reversed the tape threading on Betamax from U-matic's clockwise-around-the-head-drum to counter-clockwise. In the early 80s, they came out with a new, smaller Beta threading mechanism that threaded clockwise like the U-matic, plus with guide pins that folded underneath when unthreading the tape. I have a bunch of Beta VCRs, but no U-matics... I'd like to get an early one like this someday. A couple of really weird aspects of U-matic are that the tape played from the right spool to the left, and the two spools turned in opposite directions.

[@michaelpartowidjojo7303]

I got one of these from my dad and I'd like to get it working, but don't have a user manual. Are you able to connect it to newer TV's?.. how are you connecting it? thanks for any help

[@TheRealAndreasBartel]

This was the first, and it was for home use: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4WonaCYmamKqqs