Sony UVW1400AP BetacamSP professional video recorder. Can we fix it?

[@Petertronic]

Nice machine, a kind donation! I never saw the issue with that spring in all the time I was working on these machines. But the plastic was 25 years younger then! I have made a note to check those VU meter capacitors on my UVW-1800P, thanks for the useful tips as always.

[@more.power.]

Thanks Colin love the special deliveries right on que. I great video thank you. Cheers

[@brunoch1987]

Interesting to see how betacam works inside.

[@MVVblog]

16:31 I have the same VCR (but with editing capabilities), and it has the VU Meter with broken capacitors and also a burnt SMD transistor. The displays don't work, but everything else does. The recorder was functioning, but now it will probably be completely dead after years of disuse. I will try to fix it; it would be nice to collaborate even though my KZbin channel is in Italian.

[@zx8401ztv]

Colin, I don't think it will take you long to make a better remote cable :-D. i think that remote has a group of resistors inside and tied to the buttons like the old vcrs used to have. I think the spring can be bodged .... errr i mean repaired with love lol. And you recapped the display power supply :-D.

[@ajhaynes3131]

I have a sneaky suspicion that the spring can actually be removed and the carriage will still work. I could be wrong but I think its just there to set the tension on the toothed belt before a set screw is tightened.

[@video99couk]

You might be right. It could be a case of just get it out of the way and it will work. I will try that.

[@crashbandicoot4everr]

12voltvids recently did a video on one of these where those very same caps failed and took out both displays and the fuse on the VU meter PCB.

[@video99couk]

Yes, I saw that the other day. It was just coincidence that this machine came in then. On one of my previous machines, the capacitor failure caused a regulator to put a large voltage onto the larger display and control board and blow it all up. Hence I will now replace those capacitors as a matter of course.

[@nostalgoteket.tvogradioark1494]

I like the graphic info display on the UVW series. Sony could well have continued that on Digi and SX

[@bobsbits5357]

hi at last a great video you made i have seen alot with the a cap n the vu part i still get offered his range of decks time to time only take them in because of the liner audio just have alot now note i just got alot new sealed betacam tapes at very price £1 for 10 i am getting alot of this they just don''t know what to do with the tapes i am finding

[@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.

[@TTVEaGMXde]

If you already know that bad electrolytic capacitors can cause major damage, they should be replaced, especially with SMD. But fatigue fracture caused by strong springs in SONY plastic parts is nothing really new.

[@northernplacecorporation]

Uhh... Colin... you were absolutely and utterly wrong about the UVW-1600 and its' PAL counterpart, the UVW-1600P. That model actually DOES have VU meters, aside it being a player.

[@video99couk]

The 1600 is a player with VU meters? Wasn't aware of that. I think it was a much rarer model.

[@jkmac625]

I'd say the 1200 & 1400 are actually rarer because they don't have the RS422 9-pin remote socket, which makes them pretty useless for editing and only really suitable for use in a production office or maybe as a source for VHS duplication. They're probably more common today precisely because some of them didn't have a hard life sitting in an office getting occasional use. Sony also say these 2 models have a Time Base Stabilizer not a Time Base Corrector, although I'm not sure what the difference between a Stabilizer and a Corrector would be? Maybe the former can't have the video levels adjusted? The 1800 was probably the most common model in the UVW series as they could be used with an Avid Media Composer or similar editing system (having the RS422 remote connector) for both ingest and playout of final edits. There was a very rare model in the UVW series that had something to do with either video animation or graphics, might be the UVW1700. The UVW1600 is the edit player and the UVW1800 is the edit recorder so they could work together with an external edit controller.

[@mrjazzycharon2]

Why don’t you use a Sony PVM or BVM monitor?

[@The_Traveling_Clown]

They say that many none working machines, equals one working machine.

[@video99couk]

Well yes, the spares did help.

[@lasten75]

The small tape is a digibeta tape (digital betacam) and that will not play in a betacam sp machine

[@video99couk]

I know, I did say that. It spits it out, but the error message was what I was interested in.

[@alphabeets]

What a crappy design. Shame on Sony for that flaw.

[@stephan.scharf]

UVW series was cheap, not reliable and a nightmare.

[@video99couk]

I've had a few failures on these, but then they are getting on a bit now. I still like them though, not least because they have S-Video out, and a "pleasing" picture to my eyes. I've had the odd tape look nasty on a DigiBeta but look better on one of these. It's good to have a selection of machines to get the best from a tape.

[@stephan.scharf]

@@video99couk you are right in all aspects. I figured out years ago how to get S-Video signal from VO9600.

[@davidwilliams2840]

A lot of jamming going on Colin obviously you're a Bob Marley Fan 😂 apart from that an excellent video

[@video99couk]

No idea what that means, but OK.