A Celebration of the humble VHS Recorder System The Cine Film Factory Celebrates

Hey guys, we wanted to make this latest VLOG as a NOD to the humble VHS system that is becoming a distant memory today! However, it served us all for so many years wanted to celebrate this & show this VHS Orion combi unit we have had in our store room for years!!!!
Yes, we transfer VHS & all tapes from the past here at the cine film factory by our wonderful tape technician Amanda, so be sure to reach out to get them transferred in our usual high quality to digital to ensure your precious memories are kept up to date.
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[@richiereyn]

The other double deck I can remember was the Amstrad double decker. These were not particularly well made machines. I think the best, most solid recorders were made in the 80's and early 90's. The first VCR I ever used at home was my dad's N1500 [Philips VCR] system back in the mid 70's, before VHS and Beta existed. My dad also had U-matic equipment in his factory, which was a very high quality system. In the end I settled on Betamax as a consumer system, and continued using it up until the transition to digital. Side by side I could see a definite edge in picture quality over VHS, so I rarely ever used the VHS format myself.

[@thecinefilmfactory]

Hi Richie, Thanks for your contribution! Could agree more on build quality. Yes of course, Amstrad made a double decker along with as mentioned in the video Baird & the Orion we feature here in the video! On to Betamax great quality format however in 13 years now of transfers in the UK serving thousands of clients probably only ever had a handful literally count on 1 hand how many enquires for Betamax hence that’s the only format we do Not transfer here Thanks again for watching our content & hopefully subscribing to our channel so your kept in the loop of our content as soon as we release it, Have A Great Weekend the CFF Team

[@richiereyn]

@@thecinefilmfactory Yes, you are correct, I rarely get any Betamax to transfer and even less V2000, but I do see a lot of 8mm/Hi8, MiniDV and occasionally Digital8, and obviously VHS, I also get U-matic and Betacam as well, but that is because I worked in broadcast environments when I was younger, and so still get called on occasionally by people who know me. I am retired now, so just do it more as a hobby rather than a much needed job, it keeps the grey matter ticking over. It's funny to think that when I was younger and got to work in a broadcast environment, I wanted so badly to use the kind of recorders at home that the broadcasters use, I was so envious of their quality, but they were prohibitively expensive, hence my choice of Betamax for home use. It was the closest I could hope to get to anywhere near broadcast quality at the time. Now you can pick up used broadcast equipment on places like eBay for peanuts compared to their original retail prices.

[@thecinefilmfactory]

⁠@@richiereynGreat interesting career you had over the years ! As you can image we have seen hundreds actually into the 1000s over the years of the dreaded Hi-8 tape, I say that because if haven’t checked out the video we made about these a few years ago now highlighting the deteriorative state we see them in more & more today! Check it out here & Thank You for contributing to our wonderful world of transfer kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmTSqXeYaax8m8Usi=9_jRkxriBYFNiHVn