Panasonic AG-7350 Studio SVHS Teardown

I bought several of these AG-7350 Studio SVHS machines from a studio clearout in West London a couple of years ago. Here's what's inside!

[@totalrandomtechnolog]

Nice video, and seriously nice piece of equipment. At 11:41, that is the audio reading\tracking head, and at 11:48 that is the erase head. All-in-all, i envy you for having such nice vhs equipment :)

[@laboratorioassembler]

strange that he is wrong with these 2 heads.. these are the same on all VCR (almost) .. i have an issue with low volume and hiss noise background on this unit and for a while i thoung i'm completely dumb cleaning the erase head :) hahahahahahah

[@brandtzeigler]

I have the AG-7510. I wanted to look at the outputs on this machine as well. I love the idea of taking the AG-7510 and recording to digital. It is a monster and weighs about 45 US LBS, but I fell in love with it the moment I saw it.

[@jonnieperry]

For just dubbing off home SVHS stuff I'd recommend an NV-HS1000 or NV-HS950 - which use the same transport. Cheaper, without the editing frills and far lighter! Nice teardown Carls - used to work with them.

[@joeytortice1965]

I want a s vhs like this real bad. I've used one these before but it was a jvc brand, connected to an mx-1 digital video mixer, that was in the year 2000 when I was in school.

[@gimmietheprize]

Great vid! Interesting!

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

11:40 the rotating head is the rec/play head, the silver one records and reads linear sound and the little black one erases the tape when u press rec

[@RetroGamerVX]

Oooh, just what hte doctor ordered, love these :o) Ohh, I've got 20 odd of those boards to clean for the Painbox, that's going to be fun (plus got to replace some caps on them too that have blown) Nice, in detail teardown as usual......eeek, evil caps!! ;o)

[@AlexanderRoca]

Actually great video. How to check the number of hours worked on Panasonic AG-7350 ? Instructions not found.

[@AHammockdream]

i got one of these just to rip my family home videos over to dvd cause the crap today sucks. its a pretty impressive machine! id say this was like the ferrari of vhs/ svhs player back in the day :P

[@alvarocancela5508]

Hello, do you have any of these left? happy New Year!! ​

[@laboratorioassembler]

very happy buut the counter is not moving... you have to repkace capacitors on servo board.

[@RadostinVelchev]

The Maclord chips as far as i remember are on the audio processing boards.

[@andilowe9526]

Warum zählt das Zählwerk nicht, wenn Wiedergabe eingeschaltet ist?

[@Kabensis1]

我在中国，我这里也有2台同样的录像机，型号是AG-7350(E)&AG-7355(E)，是PAL制式的。这个录像机设计用于医学用，比如超声检测，AG-7355具有DIGITAL FRAME MEMORY功能。磁鼓的型号是VEH0719 :-)

[@reviewmirror]

Nice vid. Thx man :-) I've bought one on ebay but approx. 10 sec. after turning on it turns off itself. Any ideas? Sounds like Capacitor Problem in the Power supply but I have no idea where to start :-( Thanks in advance!

[@CarlsTechShed]

Depends what's wrong with it. Drop me an inbox with the details and I will do my best to diagnose the fault and recommend what parts to adjust or replace.

[@405line]

Lovely bit-o-kit. Seriously considering on of these at the moment. Can they still be repaired?

[@Trusten-rw2st]

They are lot more worth, compared to what you said, cost like a small car from new. S-VHS is lot better detail in the images, than VHS !

[@myhay576]

11,59 erase head 11,40 audio and counter head and the rotari head also have 2 audio heads for hi fi and 5 or 6 video heads

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

myhay12 myhay 4 video heads, 2 hifi heads and 2 flying erase heads :)

[@stuartgreenfield7131]

Carl, recently my AG 7350 VCR has started spitting out the tape a couple of seconds after I load it in. It won't play, rewind or fast forward. Any ideas?

[@offontv]

hey dude , I need a 32 pin interface cable - got any kicking about

[@SportyClassic]

great overview but asking prices are not selling, look for completed sales if you want to determine value.

[@CarlsTechShed]

I made this video 4 years ago, so prices will have changed since then

[@SportyClassic]

Good point. Doh!

[@andrewlittleboy8532]

These are actually all fully LED backlit and not bulbs.

[@Sco1t19]

you have your heads mixed up :P the head you thought was the Audio head is the video erase head and so on

[@superstrangevideo]

What's the difference in picture quality or functions of this unit, compared to the Panasonic AG1980 S-VHS unit?

[@laboratorioassembler]

picture quality? if the VHS is recorded with a cheap VCR o r cheap Camera... the player can't do anything to incerase quality... BTW i made every test on this 7350 and the quality is the same of last (2002/2006) cheaper JVC / SONY / SAMSUNG units. maybe the only difference is that if the tape is something like damaged the massive dragging force of the tape can solve a bit slow/fast audio video output on these zones.

[@Р.А-т3т]

Hi. Who knows what is videoheads number?

[@bobskie321]

11:55 That's the erase head.

[@bossplaytv4077]

What leads do I need to hook up to a standard tv please? Thank you

[@CarlsTechShed]

From what I remember, it was a standard S-Video cable and two RCA cables for the Left & Right audio output.

[@bossplaytv4077]

CarlsTechShed having trouble finding one ( thanks Carl

[@babyflurryheart9114]

please show me inside a Hi Fi

[@babyflurryheart9114]

please give me one for free ok

[@astridf.9767]

Do you really know what you are talking about?

[@superstrangevideo]

Are you really using your single mommy's computer?

[@3dmaxuser]

You dont have a clue what your talking about do you lol

[@astridf.9767]

you are telling a lot of rubbish !