Quick Look! Philips N1700 VCR-LP - Ep 6 S1

[@video99couk]

2:06 Thanks for the plug! 13:07 It's shutting down due to no capstan rotation.

[@MrBetaByte]

My pleasure. 😊

[@Electrotat]

New intro screen is fab.

[@MrBetaByte]

Glad you like it. My daughter designed and produced it so I'll pass on the positive feedback. 😊

[@stephengorin3059]

In the day i had a Philips K9 colour set and also a Philips N1700 in my lounge room, Great units, but the N1700 was changed out for a early sony beta machine. Later on i upgraded the sony beta for a panasonic NV300. The then old N1700 had been stored for around 5 years and was bought back into service after a quick clean and belts replaced. Talk about being built like a battle ship. I still have the Philips K9, but the picture tube is starting to show it's age.

[@jkmac625]

About 24 years ago (1999/2000) someone gave me a Philips N1702 together with a box of tapes. Never did get it to work, changed the belts but it would never complete the loading cycle. Managed to get a scrap machine (with broken video heads) and did some (servo) board swapping but it still had the same symptoms.

[@robertlloyd-jones4310]

My N1702 always struggles to rewind all the tapes I have to the very beginning. I’ve changed the belts, cleaned it many times & rubber renewed the idler that drives the reels. When I’ve just cleaned & renewed it fares much better when I rewind straight afterwards but the next time I use the vcr, it just struggles again. I have a dozen or so tapes (some are SVR) but they all react the same. I’d be interested to find out whether you’re successful with that on this N1700. Cheers, Rob.

[@MrBetaByte]

I wonder if there's contamination between the upper and lower spool. Looking forward to looking into these issues further.

[@video99couk]

I would still blame the idler. But also sometimes it's the tapes themselves. Still them in a electric oven at 50C for 24 hours and see if they work better after that.

[@robertlloyd-jones4310]

These machines are well worth the effort. The picture & sound, while often less stable than vhs & beta, was a notch above them (especially vhs) in terms of quality. The faster video writing speed & wider track width, seemed to mean the picture needed less artificial sharpening & coring, meaning it was sometimes hard to tell you were watching a recording & not a live program on the typical 22” crt of the time. I have had a few N1700s & N1702s, some from when they were current models & I reckon only the unreliable coaxial tapes let them down. One thing I always noticed though, was that totally red screen pictures in particular exhibited a strange vertically striped image, not sure if it was because the colour had less noise overall than the Japanese models & the noise masked the effect on them??

[@metingokbulut837]

💯⭐️🇹🇷👍 I have nearly 100 betamax and vhs devices in stock, I have nearly 10,000 betamax and vhs tapes, these are excellent devices and tapes.

[@MrBetaByte]

Thanks for sharing!

[@vcdsholawatislami]

​@@MrBetaByteassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

[@metingokbulut837]

💯⭐️🇹🇷👍 Stokta 100'e yakın betamax ve vhs cihazım var, 10.000'e yakın betamax ve vhs kasetim var, bunlar mükemmel cihaz ve kasetler.

[@MrBetaByte]

Thanks for sharing.

[@bob-s-bit-s]

hi have one all the moving parts are all jammed up the video heads are ok you know all the moving parts will not move any more

[@paulb4uk]

My dad had a few of these at one point but they ended up going to the tip before video,s went up of people restoring them . Sadly.

[@MrBetaByte]

That happened so often especially in the late 90's. I am always amazed how many of these machines are still left though! I sold one 15 years ago and thought I'd never see another one again!