Canon VHS VCR from the mid 1980s

[@clifffton]

That series (National/Panasonic) was the best consumer VCR family. Loved working on those....

[@linusevosonic]

I love the design of that 80s machines.

[@databits]

+linusevosonic - me too

[@RESULT_OF_A_BROKEN_CONDOM]

Agree.

[@briankelly9347]

And you can,knock some one out with it!

[@MrTransalpin]

This VHS deck is made by Matsushita( Panasonic/Technics)

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

This VCR is a clone of the Panasonic NV-870. VERY good quality units!!

[@siliconinsect]

Did NEC clone this model too?

[@mjouwbuis]

Not a clone, just OEM production by Panasonic so a parallel model to the NV-870 and/or AG-1800. You can tell immediately from the Panasonic part numbers in the lower right corner of the labels on the back.

[@pareshbhaidarji6597]

Fivos Sakellis l have a VCR shopping

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

My first thought was they probably didn't make one somebody else made it and they put their name on it.

[@The_Laser_Channel]

i love VCRs from back in the day.....once they started making cheap plastic ones that didn't even have displays, they just started becoming "unattractive" boxes that played videos.....couldn't even see the time b/c they didn't show a display on the front...just power, tape in and TV/VCR mode

[@databits]

DvdXploitr Thanks for watching and for your comments!

[@supermasterPIK]

12:00 display..hipnotic

[@njm1971nyc]

Came to say it's definitely not a Canon-,made VCR, definitely a rebadged Panasonic, but looks like several dozen other people beat me to it 😆 Aside from many other clues, that's Panasonic's logo for HiFi Audio. Early on they called it HD Audio, standing for High Dynamic. Nice machine anyway 👍

[@areyoureceivingme]

Just LOVE this. Decided I really need a VCR recorder and a few of my favourite films. No 80s man cave could be complete without one!

[@databits]

Cool, thank you for watching!

[@colombianguy8194]

incredible machine!! screams 80's design everywhere. great find!

Wow a Canon vcr, I'm impressed how advanced it was and still working! I had a pretty ordinary cheap Samsung but was happy with it.

[@pHD77]

The look of that VCR... the placements of the buttons and features... even the whirring sounds it is making... I used to have a Blaupunkt VHS ( PAL ) back in the late 80s that looked A LOT like that one. Can't remember the model, though.

[@joeb2588]

In the 80's, You could find GE, Sylvania, Panasonic, Quasar, plus others all built by Matsushita, (Panasonic). In the 80's they were reliable tanks.

[@jonjonas2528]

Get these company to start making brand new VHS vcr videorecorders again and new blank VHS tapes

[@Ryan96se]

The VCR's to own are the ones in the mid 80's when they were at their height of popularity. Heavy and built like a tank with loads of features. I just finished getting my dads old Magnavox (another Panasonic D series player) up and going. Model VR8555GY01 with the front Hi-Fi display as well. Very nice unit. 100% works...including timer record. Has a beautiful picture for VHS. 4-Head Hi-Fi Stereo. All of these are keepers. The weakest link is the function control switch operated by the mechanism that tells the logic circuitry where the player is operationally. The plastic tabs holding the fingers onto the plastic sliders break over time and the unit just shuts down. I was able to repair mine. Been working great for years :-)

[@therealchickentender]

Those Magnavox were nice ones as well. They and the Zeniths were favorite to look at when I was younger. Loved anything with a VU meter. :) How did you repair the function switch on that one? Replacement or DIY refurb of some kind?

[@maverickbna]

My family has had mostly Panasonic VCRs. Great stuff! Thanks for this really cool content.

[@jonjonas2528]

What a great VHS vcr videorecorder keep using your VHS vcr videorecorder and blank VHS tapes to get even with the news media

[@petergatzbirle3293]

It´s a excellent VCR for Hi-Fi stereo audio recording, with hi-fi audio tracking control. This is very important, because hi-fi audio is recorded the same way as video (helical scanning heads) and some times it can loss tracking.

[@dallasmullins8765]

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[@therealchickentender]

I remember my dad used to make many an audio "mixtape" for different occasions back then on his similar Panasonic branded unit... all via receiver line-out from the turntable/LP collection. Those mixes always sounded fantastic.

[@37dhw8]

The door, buttons, and display suggest some similarities to National VCRs of the mid-80s, my grandma has both an NV-280 and an NV-G10 which the Canon sort of remind me of. On a related note, have you had experience with these National VCRs or similar ones? I'm thinking of asking my grandmother for hers, and want to know whether they're worth it.

[@databits]

+maxwellmine - I haven't worked on a National VCR before, unless this Canon is a National?

[@unclehogram]

National is Panasonic is Matsushita is Quasar. This is a rebadged Panasonic AG-1800 VCR.

[@unclehogram]

The MPX jack was for an outboard US NTSC MTS decoder (which I'm not sure if it ever arrived). I had the Panasonic consumer model of this deck (PV-somethingorother) and it received mono audio but was promised to be upgradeable. Except the adapter never came. Mine had the jack on the rear as well. Ended up relegating that one to secondary duties and getting a JVC in ~'85 that included Hi-Fi and MTS instead.

[@lokiaz662]

CANON MS 1O

[@unclehogram]

@@lokiaz662 TIL! Either it was Canon only or my Panasonic dealer was more interested in selling me a new VCR.

[@HD7100]

I did enjoy the video. In all the years I did VCR repairs I never have seen a Canon VCR. It looks impressive. I know this is an old video and wonder if you still have the machine. Gary

[@pingsky2504]

I have a cannon VR-40 portable VCR with a broken head ,I have a Panasonic F55 and I notice they have quite same head, I wonder if I can just simply swap the F55's head to the cannon or not?

[@DanOConnorTech]

I'm pretty sure that MPX out jack used a cable that went to a special MPX Decoder box that were available around that time to listen to the stereo on you audio system. I have a 1987 Curtis Mathes television with the same jack.

[@databits]

Dan O'Connor Thanks for watching and for your comments!

[@douglashoff95]

Always easy to tell when a VCR is made by Panasonic. The "triangle" Matsushita mark is all over the components inside. This one was one of their best having a die cast heavy chassis.

[@davethomas1241]

I totally want this vcr it reminds me of a vcr we had when I was a kid might be the silmer model

[@DavidSusiloUnscripted]

Canon even makes projectors in Japan (and rebranded as other brands for the rest of the world)

[@NJRoadfan]

Canon didn't build these, its a re-branded Panasonic deck.

[@databits]

NJRoadfan That makes sense.

[@jonjonas2528]

The vcr is coming back soon VHS vcr are coming back soon

[@joeb2588]

I wish. But who's going to tool up the machinery to mfg these? No one. I'd love to see mid 80s machines come back. Die cast aluminum chassis and not plastic. Just awesome.

[@scottstrang1583]

I almost bought one back in the day. It was basically a Panasonic industrial model inside. They had a whole line of home video products.

[@leonidas14775]

So does setting the AGC switch to manual make it ignore macrovision?

[@3Cr15w311]

This reminds me of the first Hi-Fi VHS machine I ever had -- a Mitsubishi 421 (maybe HS421UR?) It was very similar in features to this unit. I would guess this to be a high end 1986 or 1987 unit. In 1988, the high-end machines were getting real-time counters and the separate VHF/UHF antenna connections were being replaced with a single 75 ohm coax. Note that this unit has the LP speed like my Mitsubishi 421 did, which was gone in the next Mitsubishi I got, the 413 in 1988, to have a second Hi Fi VCR. I will say that the Hi Fi audio on these were great but tape damage makes very ugly staticky sound. The slightest tape scratch will create static for the whole duration that the scratch is visible in the picture. Also, some units would switch from HiFi to linear if such damage were present and that was a jarring things to hear because the audio levels and fidelity between the two completely different audio systems was often so different. This unit was made at what was likely the peak of VCRs when companies were still trying to make good units and be competitive instead of the race to the bottom that happened in the 1990s.

[@LowBudgetProductions]

I remember Canon made video cameras and portable VCRs to go together. This was back when a "camcorder" was non-existent.

[@justinavery4047]

+Low Budget Productions Good point!!

[@briankelly9347]

They existed then dumb ass

[@8bits59]

What exactly does the "slow tracking" knob do? I have a 1982 RCA VCR that has this and a normal tracking control. Is it like a fine-tune adjustment or does it adjust tracking on the LP/SLP speeds? EDIT: for reference, the VCR is an RCA VMT385A.

[@lutello3012]

Think I got that one at a flea market in the 90s, it had a hi-fi tracking problem. I recently had a dream that I left that VCR on top of a vary tall wall and didn't have a ladder tall enough to get it down. 🤪

[@MARHVINXII]

Super cool VIDEO!!! VHS OWNS DVDs

[@databits]

MARHVIN XII VHS ROCKS!

[@MARHVINXII]

DO YOU STILL USE VCR ON REGULAR BASIS...

[@georgepowell1454]

Not if you take care of a DVD. We went DVD only in 2008 and BluRay in 2013. The VHS tapes from 1997 look like crap, because I live in a humid climate and I stored my tapes in an air conditioned environment in the original sleeves in a storage container and it looks like crap no matter how you store it. My first DVD from 2004 still to this day looks as good as it did when I bought it in 2004. So do my BluRays. But the VHS tapes deteriorate.

[@darkempire37]

nice looking machine ! is that a widescreen vhs of Superman the movie!? or is just that trailer in widescreen . Would also love to see an example of this vcr played on a larger screen

[@ThatWeirdoWhoMakesVideos]

Never knew canon made VCR's back in the day

[@speedyboishan87]

999 call me

[@schutz85]

I have an Emerson VCS-966A with the same transformer, but the unit itself is gigantic compared to this one. I wonder if this Canon one is a more up to date version of it. They both have most of the same features too.

[@therealchickentender]

The Emerson models that are similar (many as far as I remember) weren't Panasonic untis, but Mitsubishi if the ones with similar features. One of the other truly great VCR model lines, if not as popular or extensive.

[@Fuzy2K]

I used to have a book called "The New Fix-It Yourself Manual", and I think this might have been the very same model VCR they used in the VCR repair section in that book... :D

[@databits]

***** Nothing beats a Canon I guess?

[@DimensionDude]

Very nice! I have an Emerson Hi-Fi VCR with many of those features, including the sliders for the audio recording volume. A belt kit would probably put it back into operation but sadly, I don't really have a use for it right now.

[@databits]

DimensionDude Thanks for watching and for your comments!

[@jamesjan]

At first glance it reminds me of a National/Panasonic unit. Had a NV-777 that looked very much like this but much older.

[@AbdiPianoChannel]

What about nikon VCR?

[@couragebagge8545]

Cool. I never seen one before.

[@n0_31]

I got a 2 head Panasonic VCR, I'm not sure when it was made but that one in this video looks like it was make in 2040 if people kept making vcrs

[@EricCartmanRussian]

Aux shown here was a quite standart audio output in soviet audio devices

[@MyDenney]

Beautiful machine. I would record music on the tapes the hi fi was gave a wonderful sound. I especially love the adjustable audio meters, and headphone jack. Later vcr's did away with all that. Such a shame. Makes it difficult to record audio without the meters. Again just a beautiful machine I wis they still made them.

[@danielturcu000]

Nice VCR! I have almost the same unit but from Blaupunkt. Mine it is realy heavy..

[@mjouwbuis]

Actually not from the mid 1990's but from november 1985 as seen from the Panasonic-style serial number starting with K5 (the letters after K5 indicate in which Matsushita-factory it was made and the numbers after that are the bare serial number).

[@josephcooper240]

Hermoso adoro todo lo RETRO 80´s y 90´s

[@LittleRichard1988]

Reading in the comments I'm not surprised it's actually made by Panasonic but Panasonic were a top brand, even their VCRs from the late 90s-early 2000s were premium quality maybe not as good as the likes of this. Older VCRs were also designed in a way that everything was user serviceable. In those days you expected a VCR to last at least 10 years.

[@Dr_Sack]

Dual VFD's??? Too cool!

[@abdulwasayfazal9557]

thank you very much for showing this vcr.....i have a panasonic super drive vhs vcr .....its display is not working .....i tried to clean the video head but still i didn't get any picture .......i didn't even find any bad capacitor ....please help me to resolve this problem.thank you.

[@treystephens4490]

I had a beautiful Magnavox VCR 1989 in perfect condition with a controller in the basement and my cat passed down the air heat cooling duct and it poured directly into the top corroding the circuits and ill never forgive that unclean animal! im going to be sad about it the rest of my life!

[@MrWolfSnack]

Very rare VCR there.

[@GriffinCorreia]

The aux port on the back is typically used in 80s computers for keyboards. I never knew that Canon made VCRs either

[@unclehogram]

May look like an IBM AT keyboard port but it's not. That's a DIN connector for stereo analog audio frequently used in Germany and elsewhere in Europe in the mid-80s. B&O equipment from the era exclusively used those connectors.

[@harshadchauhan5945]

Sir please the VCR is sales

[@MrAdeljas]

i have the feeling that older equipment was designed by real engineers who understood what the device does and how to do it right modern equipment by people who are just 'experimenting' or to achieve some marketing goals ...

[@cmauchi29]

It's a high end VCR can be cool to play the video on high end TV from the 80s.

[@JaswinderSingh-dr1gh]

,sir beautiful VCR

[@38600franck]

This analogue deck is made by Matsushita( panasonic/technics), and I believe you may record in 525 Lines 60 fields CTL servo with HIFI audio: -SP Modus( 33,35 mm/s) -SLP(EP) Modus( 11,12 mm/s), with good HIFI sound but linear sound is worse( linear sound 2 normals tracks) -Pearhaps, LP Modus( 16,67 mm/s) LP modus rec speed is possible only with Panasonic VHS decks( or rebranded panasonic !) In Europe, I have record DVB brodcasts, with a STB with CVBS out in NTSC (3,58) Mode, or PAL-M mode possibility setup on STB OSD, in SLP/EP mode, with a polystandard VCR. Your deck may play these pictures ! I have recorded many tapes in NTSC SLP/EP mode with HIFI sound( still picture NTSC test pattern with German Folk Music( Volksmusik), digital audio convert to high quality analogue HIFI VHS !

[@databits]

Sylvie THESIDO Thank you for your comments!

[@randm2841]

You took it apart!📺

[@EricCartmanRussian]

Ideal design

[@Mike-nb5iw]

There are some for sale on eBay now. Cool machine.

[@databits]

Mike: you should buy 3! :)

[@alphabeets]

Pretty buzzy audio? Nice feature set.

[@vintagecameras9623]

Thanks for another informative video.

[@TheWardog1369]

Looks like a video concepts unit I used to have.

[@mindaugasbudvytis7459]

It's rebranded Panasonic, clearly visible by cassette window, and top details

[@christianorthodoxy4769]

WOW' Look's amazing.

[@NigelMontezuma]

Canon VCR-HF600A Also Panasonic AG-1800, National NV-870

[@DioDreamer]

that machine is really awesome

[@databits]

+DioDreamer - thanks Dio

[@punkrockpub]

I have a unit identical to this one! Can anyone recommend a Professional Restoration service for my unit please?

[@kd1s]

The fact you can shut AGC off means you can duplicate tapes with Macrovision protection.

[@UHF43]

No way. That AGC is for audio recording only. Video AGC is not defeatable.

[@Themadscientist6858]

Nice find 👍

[@zlinedavid]

Not even the oldest VCR Canon had. Check out the VC-30 system.

[@joeb2588]

You know if this is a Panasonic Matsushita machine? It doesn't look like it....?

[@GriffinCorreia]

It's a Canon Not a Panasonic Matsushita

[@unclehogram]

Yes it is a Panasonic. Canon OEMed the Panasonic AG-1800 industrial VCR. See the service manual cover below: www.webstore.com/cache/cache_500_1_1_img_15207531_48653231cce4c2d884fc4aec79038bfbjpg.gif

[@joeb2588]

@@unclehogram yah, cannon didn t have a facility making vcrs. Nice panasonic. Good job

[@joeb2588]

@@GriffinCorreia nice machine but if it wasn't a panasonic, then it would be a Hitachi or jvc. Not a whole lot of manfacururs pumping out vcrs at the time..

[@cfcreative1]

Is this as good as SVHS?

[@ИванПостернак]

Круто 1980год новый двигатель 👍

[@onairtamiloli4151]

This original manufacturer Matsushita Elctric industrial company formerly National now Panasonic. 👌

[@lokiaz662]

AUX IS FOR cable switch box

[@ultra4khdhindivideos934]

nice cvr

[@V_channel_]

You really thought Canon only made/makes copiers?

[@gerard3325]

I like the VFDs they used in 80s VCRs. It's a shame they moved to LED in the 90s. VFDs are clearer and have a better viewing angle, though are more expensive.

[@briankelly9347]

Nothing white people and asians ain't cheap on

[@VSigma725]

80s VCRs are my favorite VCRs. Of course neither of my 80s VCRs actually WORK...

[@therealchickentender]

But they're easiest to *get* working if you want... :)

[@brandonreina4886]

I am getting a Canon VCR for my 35th birthday only to watch The Princess Diaries (2001) on VHS which is a girl movie

[@turnercarl]

Canon VHS camcorder I remember the Canon VR30 very exspensive

[@databits]

Carlos Vanquish Thanks for watching and for your comments!

[@briankelly9347]

300 bucks

[@MaddawgJAG]

I owned one, it was a fantastic player till lighting took it out😭

[@MrKarmapolice97]

And as always like the 80’s the 12:00 is blinking

[@shaun9107]

Now has extra life

[@TheVCRKing]

Who noticed the thumbnail change?

[@databits]

Me.

[@tractorsandagriculturemach8890]

This make NATIONAL panasonic

[@vhsmies3990]

Nice

[@lolimoka3654]

>when you have extra 1,000$ in 1980s

[@Psylliumhead]

I hope it was better than their printers.

[@bobjerome5390]

hi i have seen this kind of video before i had one play back hi-fi one vhs hi-fi tapes and you could record hi-fi stereo 0n the vhs tapes 3 tape speed on this deck is rare

[@cogsinister100]

Looks like it was made for Canon by Panasonic.

[@databits]

Neil Robinson Thanks for watching and for your comments!

[@timmygross4772]

they need to bring back vhs player and vhs tape because vhs player are beter then DVD player and DVds

[@scaleop4]

ill be honest i have never seen a cannon vcr.... but i have seen a lot of cannon printers and cameras.lol

[@databits]

scaleop4 Yes, same here!

[@apfanco]

It's Canon. Not "cannon".

[@judasmaiden1709]

Es una mecánica panasonic

[@cman624]

Looks like my akai model VS-616UM

[@databits]

Good VCR also?

[@BlackGymkhana]

National NV-870 clone...

[@Mateusz-ts2mo]

Canon you can

[@M.I.R]

Красивый