Using a 𝐍𝐄𝐖 VHS-C Camcorder! JVC SXM250 from 2003

[@brunosardine1]

I cannot explain how much of a mindfreak it is to see this VHS footage. Like conceptually I understand that it was filmed in 2023, but without the context of the video I would be 100% convinced it was from the turn of the century

[@fus132]

21:17 Outside the cars good luck putting a date on this one

[@boowiebear]

We are so spoiled. I grew up with VHS and can’t believe how bad it looks! 😂

[@jr2904]

​@@boowiebearyou need a CRT to complete the experience lol. I can't believe I grew up playing games on a 13 inch crt, but it was great at the time lol. From the late '90s to the midlate '00s

[@boowiebear]

@@jr2904You are probably right it would look more “correct” on a CRT! I was prepared for it to be worse when he switched but just wild how it crushes color and dynamic range. Video quality today is really remarkable.

[@MattExzy]

A lot of news footage of that era to me now looks like the 1980s, even if it were shot on higher quality gear. It's a weird effect.

[@raduorza883]

There's something special about filming modern stuff using an old vhs camcorder. It's like a visitor from the past came in the future and tried documenting it.

[@johnboydojo]

What a great way of looking at it! Well said!

[@willm5032]

I've got a 2003ish Samsung, and I'm filming hardcore bands on it, something really cool about footage that looks like it's from an early 2000s skate video hahah

[@raduorza883]

@@willm5032 That must look at least AWESOME! I love those kind of videos. They bring a little nostalgia from when I've been watching old rock bands music videos! I hope it goes viral. (still watching old videos, like "Live at Pompeii")

[@micknightmare3]

I want to sniff it too 😤

[@RedTroPc]

I recorded my trip to Germany on my vhs-c camcorder. I just need a capture card and to edit the footage

[@Darxide23]

As a massive fan of things like analog horror, I have to say that you just futzing around with this camera around town already looks a thousand times better than the junk analog filters everyone runs their video through during editing. More amateur creators need to invest in a new-old stock camcorder like this. They were so common and popular that there has to be a deep supply of such things still out there for cheap-ish.

[@vwestlife]

With vintage video and photography equipment, you're not capturing a perfect replication of real life; you're creating art. The imperfections add texture and leave more to the imagination.

[@Ralph-yn3gr]

Ah man, I forgot how... cozy VHS looks. I never had a camcorder, but it's still nice to be reminded of those first generation KZbin videos. I think it would be kinda neat if you made the occasional video with it. Sort of a throwback kind of thing.

[@blunderingfool]

We digitized my grandfather's recordings recently from the sony handy-cam he had when we were children. The picture quality to an analogue TV is just unreal.

[@RegularCupOfJoe]

Yes, the digital zoom was so bogus. I remember my family got a camcorder with 700x digital zoom... have you ever seen the space between pixels?

[@trevvrun]

Lmao

[@borjesvensson8661]

THE SPACE BETWEEN PIXELS. The new SI-FI opus soon in a movie theater near you

[@ferdinandbeck9719]

700 😂

[@mikafoxx2717]

​@@GawrGurasBathTubPizzaphones are starting to utilize digital zoom alright, using 10mp sensors and cropping in. The lens can only resolve 100mp in the very center anyways, which is why even the best full frame digital cameras are only 50mp ish, the lenses to resolve that corner to corner are.. well, a lot. 2k+ for a fixed 50mm lens type deal.

does anyone know if digital zoom/digital effects/picture stabilizer means the whole video signal is being converted to digital and then back to analog for the tape? i wonder how highlight clipping and low light noise appear with all these digital "enhancements"...

[@MrDeelightful]

This was a fun little throwback to the early days of your channel. It's sure cool how The Blair Witch Project defined that creepy nighttime forest VHS aesthetic. I think most of us went right there mentally when you were shooting at night in your backyard. Great video as always, I love to watch you having fun with the topic!

[@rarephoenix]

I still haven't seen that movie

[@CptJistuce]

​@@rarephoenixSame here.

[@J.Wick.]

Hard to beat that era of JVC. Miss them in the US market these days. They were always my go to for bang for buck.

[@jazeenharal6013]

They really were decent products

[@riggles]

In the US they were decent that is, in Europe JVC had mostly bottom of the barrel rebranded cheap crap, a really low tier brand here especially for TVs. They were nothing compared to Philips, Finlux, Loewe, Metz, Nokia. B&O, Sony, Toshiba, Grundig etc.

[@J.Wick.]

@@rigglesThats unfortunate. And FAR from what I've experienced in the US Market. IF you're talking LCD TVs I could see it. But they're Tube TVs and stereos were among the tops. As were their Car Audio (now with Kenwood) I would easily put them on the same level as Sony, Pana, etc. Philips is hit or miss here, as is Toshiba, and Grundig isn't what it used to be. Anywho, cheers!

[@TORQUENDB]

​@@J.Wick.I still regularly use a 32" JVC D-Series CRT for playing console games from the PS2 generation and earlier. IMO it looks just as nice as a Trinitron but it's a lot lighter (~110lbs vs nearer 200 for a flat screen Sony of similar size and age)

[@yukisaitou5004]

​​​@@rigglesthe last curved Widescreen sets they sold in the UK were decent, my JVC 28" certainly outperformed the flat Sanyo set of the same size my grandparents bought a few years later on which the bad geometry was apparent even to me in my early teens just playing video games.

[@TAGMedia7]

Thank you for properly deinterlacing your footage and rendering at 60p. Too many people miss this crucial step for preserving camcorder fluidity.

[@ThatDudeArvai]

Woah! Your LGR startup camera is the SAME camera my dad used to capture all of our childhood memories. I'm currently converting all of our tapes to digital and I pulled it out to test it with a new battery and it still works flawlessly. Great camera.

[@chubbycatfish4573]

There's something about that less sharp VHS aesthetic that really looks good.

[@Zarnubius]

since the early 2xxx's I've been telling peple that perfect pixels will ruin the magic pf displays. prpjectprs are the last bastipn pf fuzzy magic. np aliasing, np encpding artifacts, and ypur mind fills in sp much that it feels mpre real than ultra HD tp where HD/UHD feels fake. U have tp let the mind fill in spme pf the image pr ypu get uncunny valley. Mpdern games lppk realistic pn a fuzzy enugh display.

[@Chaos89P]

​@@ZarnubiusYou ever try playing a modern game on a CRT?

[@Zarnubius]

@@Chaos89P yes, just about every day. My second monitor is a CRT. I run DSR resolutions (1400 x 1050) @ 90hz. Cyberpunk has been great with full 4:3 support and looks amazing on CRT, and you can crank the graphics with great frames still. Full overdrive RT.

[@Chaos89P]

@@Zarnubius If only I knew how to letterbox my own setup. I don't do a lot of PC gaming.

[@Sawolf151]

Just adding how nostalgic your footage looks but also makes you understand why horror movies and games like to emulate all of that. Those night shots gave me goosebumps!

[@birdbrain4445]

3:05 I have to say, this thing wrapped in wood grain, as well as being in the channel colours, also makes it look *phenomenal* man.

[@noiteetion9372]

Would love to see your next video recorded on this beauty. Something nostalgic, with appropriate video quality to match. Imagine opening your video with a door wipe, into a corner wipe transition, then ending with a fade out finish.

[@alexthetiger7806]

A beautiful camcorder, shiny, silver, and new. The 2003 aesthetics all over the camcorder. Clint's relaxing narration. Just when I thought it couldn't be any more of a satisfying video, boom, 12:10 with some smooth jazz over the camcorder demo. Heavenly

[@Ropetupa]

I just complained to my friend how I cant find inspiration. And then THIS masterpiece drops. Thank you mr Basinger!

[@forestine_]

[lightly amused chuckle] really appreciate your great captions. so often they are an afterthought for people, or autogenerated and impossible to read.

[@erniesdeck7550]

What a great great video The combination of PS5, squirrels and random girthy objects through a nostalgic lens is absolutely heartwarming. Thanks for sharing

[@ergosteur]

This is such a cool video, the retrospective, and the footage that looks like it’s from 20 years ago. Takes me back to a time when it really was about capturing the moment on video, how magical that was. Our family had a full-size Sharp VHS camcorder in the ‘90s, lugged that thing around until about 2004 when we got a Panasonic MiniDV. The hand-sized camcorder with decent battery life was a game changer, could get out and about and not feel restricted recording all the various activities.

[@JoePolvino]

I remember going to EPCOT in 1983 and a father was videotaping his vacation. He had a full-on shoulder mount camera, a recorder in a heavy bag slung over one shoulder, and a belt with battery packs. I remember being impressed, envious, and also in awe of his dedication to carry around all that in 90 degree heat.

[@stuffmadethen]

I had these batteries in a JVC Boombox remote, and they just would not die, and also not leak. I wish we still could buy such high grade batteries. Nowadays they start leaking even BEFORE the expiration date :(

[@malicious217]

I don't know how closed captioning got turned on but ..... "Tree-rat related chuckle" is probably the best thing I've read in awhile!

[@64jimboy]

Hahaha, loved this video, the pizza was the icing on the cake! Those visuals are so particular of the VHS time. Thanks mate.

[@vworpnz]

That demo music matches the LGR aesthetic quite nicely.

[@Metalgearmadness]

I have so many vintage cameras and camcorders. I have 3 1987 (ish) VHS cameras and one of them was new in case, another has the rare dual video head on it. I also got a 90s digital camera that takes floppy discs - they are some much fun to use. Its so fun when you film things fitting of the era but its also interesting to think that - these cameras are seeing the future - recording things well past possibly whatever their creators thought was possible.

[@SpiffingNZ]

There's something very wholesome about the fact that your career started with a VHS camcorder you got for 10 bucks from Goodwill.

[@robertjones3223]

I know the nostalgic feeling with new you camcorder, In the last couple of years I spent many hours converting the family's old Hi8 tapes to digital. But I had ordered a new to me camcorder as ours were broken, and it came with some blank tapes that me son (11 year old) had fun messing about recording nonsense for no good reason.

[@yerabbit]

I remember the first time I saw one of those opening side-door screens on a camcorder. I remember thinking it was the most futuristic thing Id' ever seen lol

[@SeraphimKnight]

VHS in 2004 feels stupendously past it's prime though. DVD players had been cheap enough that I'd already had one in my room for a number of years by then. I haven't really watched any "amateur" VHS footage in the last 20 years and so it really took me back to my youth. My grandparents would drive around Canada and the US in the 80s and 90s and my grandpa would film basically anything of note and we'd be sat around his TV while he showed us what he saw on his trips. The shaky footage and half-incoherent mumbling describing what was going on. He was also a really early home computer adopter for my neck of the woods and he was the one that showed me the game Castle Wolfenstein 3D, really blew my mind. RIP

[@davidt3563]

TIL what JVC stood for. And omg you were a baby in that older clip! 😂

[@FoxerTails]

Definitely nostalgic. It wasn't a JVC, but my dad had a Sony variant of this kind of camcorder at the time. So many VHS-C tapes of memories. Been meaning to back them up digitally.

[@Dannykm]

That downvote at 1:21, nice. I really hope you take that feedback seriously though lol

[@silverxstar01]

That shot of the era-appropriate car with all of the anachronistic new cars rushing by in the background was funny, but also a great metaphor. Trying to hold onto elements of the past while the world progresses faster and faster. We live in an era when even the next year in technology is completely unpredictable. It’s comforting to revisit the past and appreciate it for its simplicity. ❤

[@redpup112]

Man, LGR video equipment has come a long ways away from _Hook up an Xbox 360 to a Tree._

[@Mat_1000]

You're crazy! Going in back alleys! You could have encountered kids of the block trying to steal you ! They would have been like : New kids on the block: "Hey! Give us your.... your... 🤔Give us your device old maaaan!!!" 😆 PS: I'm 41 now, and I'm nostalgic of the VHS era too ! The VHS camcorders, the VHS quality, the VCRs (the noise when you insert or eject a tape), even the VHS renting on saturday night. Thanks for the throwback, it felt good !! (And it was weird to see a flatscreen TV and a PS5 controller on VHS, a little bit anachronistic, it has some time travel vibes :D ).

[@CFM7]

that zoom is actually really impressive imo

[@angeltzepesh1]

That video sample gave me a strong sense of nostalgia, damn!

[@ChartreuseKitsune]

Some of the scenes look super sharp and honestly quite usable. Like the indoor scene of your Compaq AIO. I think the improvement in capture techonology really makes a difference compared to the early LGR days. I think you'd get some really usable videos swapping out the VHS-C there, much like when vwestlife makes videos occasionally on Hi-8 and such. Really the only things let down are when there's some high contrast areas with high details, like the brickwork in the buildings, or the closeups of leaves. The extra luminence bandwidth of SVHS would likely help a bit there.

[@TheGreatAtario]

I appreciate that you keep correcting yourself from "filming" to "taping". Now if we could just get people to stop calling it "filming" when using a cell phone

[@OnlyHumanYT]

That's interesting to learn that there were VHS-C adapters for VCRs that were battery powered. I still have my grandma's JVC GR-AXM341 from the early 2000s and the adapter it came with is all manual, where you slide the door shut to secure the tape.

[@raz1250]

Remember selling these when I worked at Jessops in the UK in the early 00s

[@lysergicdeity7323]

this one hit home. thanks for this video. so many memories came flooding back of filming goofy videos with my friends on one of these. my dad bought it for the family, but it ended up basically being exclusively mine. seeing the layout of the buttons on top gave me a strange muscle memory flashback, i bet i could still navigate one of those things like its 2007

[@kellymurray8998]

Our family had one of these as a kid, I was fascinated with it! My dad says I was always asking to use it when we went on holiday, the tech was so intriguing to me.

[@fixxxer3456]

Crazy how VHS was still a thing well into 2003

[@rcmero]

VHS was still a thing until at least 2005, believe it or not.

[@Carstuff111]

I have a friend with about 850+ VHS movies that he and his family still enjoy now in 2023. He got lucky a few years back and stumbled onto a Sony professional VHS recorder at a Flea Market for $25.00. Took it home, cleaned it up, thing works perfectly still. That was a $1,000.00+ machine still in 2003 ish meant for dubbing and other tasks. It is mind blowing how some old tech still defies time.

[@WinterInTheForest]

While DVD had by then dominated VHS for watching movies, affordable digital cameras weren't really very good until the 2010s.

[@MrNexor-cj8gs]

Not really. DVD players were still kind of expensive and digital video cameras were extremely expensive. I remember seeing VHS tapes for sale until 2008/9.

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

DVD (or MiniDVD in most cases) camcorders and their media while very much usable had quite a lot to quirks to them that would make them undesirable to likely plenty of people, and alternative tape options like DV or Video8 didn't really have any common options for showing it on a person's television beyond physically taking your camcorder over there; I'm sure standalone DV and Video8 players/VCRs were a thing but how many people would've bought them compared to their VHS counterparts or DVD players? VHS still legitimately made quite a bit of sense for use as a camcorder format at this time, is the point I'm trying to make.

[@face56]

Upscaled and deinterlaced footage to show properly on KZbin. Thank you for getting that right.

[@venstoma]

What is that font... What IS that font?! How did you do that?

[@DaltonTk423]

The fact that the original AA battery included in the box held a charge for 21 YEARS and STILL operated the tape adapter is insane. It really goes to show how well stuff was built during that time. If you tried that with a modern battery (I have) a brand new 10 year rated AA is dead between 8-11 years. It doesn't matter the brand. And that one wasn't even a name brand battery!

[@CPPRODUCTIONS1001]

Your music library is so cozy, both you and technology connections always make me feel cozy

[@mckelepic]

love how much fun you had with this one, it’s nice seeing familiar stuff cause I live in north carolina. loved the distant sounds of dogs barking during the night time footage. LGR camera content is great

[@dangerforthebrain2]

I genuinely think that the early LGR videos being filmed on VHS drew me in. was kind of unique among retro-tech channels' of the time and gave the videos a very "retro feel". I was kind of sad when it went away, VHS powering my childhood until well into the 2010s~

[@theblubus]

Loving the "Quiet Storm" smooth jazz Clint :) Very period accurate for this camcorder

[@dougsisk619]

That VHS hiss is unlocking some deeply packed away memories and emotions

[@gravis778]

So the feature I was most excited about on this camera was the one you didn't cover - SVHS ET. I used that mode almost exclusively when I got an SVHS ET VCR back in the day (problem is when the tape started to degrade in a couple of years, that signal was like the first thing to go, so in a couple of years the tape was unwatchable). Could you do a Blurb or something with you recording content in SVHS ET? I think it would be fascinating to see

[@sheik124]

Agreed, I was really hoping to see S-VHS ET footage from an S-VHS-C camcorder. He's got an S-VHS deck so playback wouldn't have been an issue, and it looks like he captured straight out of the camcorder anyways, surely it'd play back its own recording at least the first time. FWIW I still have full size S-VHS ET recordings from a late 90s JVC deck that play back just fine...

[@gravis778]

@@sheik124 I think my issue is by the time I got an ET deck, VHS was already starting to die, and I don't think the tape quality of the tapes I was buying was that good

[@maxtornogood]

The footage you grabbed feels really authentic for the time period of the camcorder when it was literally brand new! Amazing that the battery still works, they always say lithium-ion always ages over time whether you use it or not.

[@fuzzix]

Great stuff - those batteries still working was the most amazing thing, though :)

[@ironmaiden5658]

I remember by uncle back in the early '80s had a red on the shoulder camera that you put a full sized VHS tape in it. Might have been a JVC or Panasonic or Sony. But in '80 - '85 this was mind blowing being able to go to a lake for a picnic and then bring the day home with you and watch it again but from anyone else's perspective that happened to grab the camera at some stage and record some random stuff that they thought was cool.

[@MrDuncl]

Most likely a Panasonic. Sony would have been Betamax. Surprisingly it seems JVC came out with the GR-C1 S-VHS Camcorder before Panasonic made the full size VHS M1 Camcorder. Before either of those it was usual for a separate deck to be carried like a shoulder bag while the video camera was just that and drew its power from the deck.

[@ironmaiden5658]

@@MrDuncl Yeah I think you're right. More than likely was a Panasonic.. I remember he also had a red Panasonic triple cassette portable player with the 3 decks side by side. I always thought that was cool cuz you could hit the mode to play one tape after the other without needing to touch anything. . Playing 3 tapes back to back seemed endless in the early '80s.

[@chrismacaber4531]

First few seconds into the camcorder footage and I immediately had "Blair Witch Project" vibes. Awesome!

[@Foritus]

From Clint arguing with himself on a sofa all the way to this, thank you VHS 💖

[@crabcrabhathat]

its wild to think about how long its been since i watched someone play a video game on youtube through a camcorder feed, also thanks for showing off that weird pumpkin.

[@thequietkid0_]

No better way to end the week than with a 35 minute LGR unboxing video

[@Violant3]

the optical zoom is really good for the time

[@sean-ew2qv]

As the head Merchandise Control Associate of a national chain electronics store (the good guys) from 1998-2001, I am thankful for the memories this channel evokes.

[@hazeldavis3176]

This was so much fun. So glad you made this vid! I was looking for a plaid chair and the LGR crochet thingie lol

[@MUMSUniverse]

Pizza Hut plus VHS just feels right.

[@tomferguson9250]

Pretty sure I had this exact cam around 00-02 when I worked at a local electronics store. Got a sweet deal where I got the camera, adjustable tripod & 2 extra tapes for like $260. Solid little camera with good zoom & easy handling with the strap.

Wonderful video!!! I am an old man and used those winding mech filmcameras and these cam corders seemed great to me, no film developing. Gracias Patagonia Argentina

[@Goliath2023]

Look at that old school I got my dad's old camera like that not same model but still JVC and super vhs. Still works. Love old stuff

[@growingup15]

as someone who also owns a VHS-C Camcorder I love filming stuff today. its such a warm feeling VHS has that you cant recreate with modern Digital. VHS and Old Digital Camcorders only gives that sense of realness and a warm feeling, also filming new stuff on VHS is so cool because it's like a Time traveler went 20 years into the future from 1999 and recorded what life is like today and brought it back to the past.

[@scoutdy6547]

Recently got a vhs camera (full size not c like this) from goodwill. Camcorders are so much more fun to record with then a basic phone or even dslr. They make you feel like youre an actual filmaker (even though even high end consumer camcorders arent really "film quality") being able to control the zoom with buttons is great.

[@IronFanJoe]

Desperately wanted this exact model as a kid! Thanks for the upload.

[@AlexTechVideo]

I’ve been digitizing my old VHS C tapes. Such memories with them!

[@AngryBassist66623]

34.20 You look like the virtual tour guide we had on Hawaii airlines 20 years ago. Except a cheap lcd in the back of the headrest. Perfect.

[@mothballfamicom]

I really like the look of vhs footage. Really brings me back to a simpler time. Thanks for this 😊

[@garygullikson6349]

Electronic view finders were great. The LCD flip out viewfinders on most modern camcorders are mostly useless in sunlight. Our old Panasonic came with a "D-Sub 9-pin cable to connect to an old PC with "serial" connector. My PC has only USB inputs so I can use a USB card reader to save still pictures from our old VHS-C camcorder.

[@ijmad]

SXM250... catchy! Everyone loved model numbers in the late 90s / early 2000s!

[@seanlavoie2]

27:42 Great signs! I was so glad I had a chance to buy Dukes Mayonnaise. It’s almost hard to buy anything else now. :). What a fun video this is. Amazing how much everything looks older on camera than it is. Impressive how the original camera was able to be used for so long to provide great entertainment for everyone. Definitely proves that great equipment isn’t the most important part of KZbin, not that I don’t appreciate the image quality improvements over the years.

[@Markimark151]

I’m surprised that JVC was still making a VHS-C camcorder in 2003, when miniDV and digital/Hi8 were already popular in the early 2000s. It’s like they only made it for existing VHS-C users that wanted to record their cheap tapes, that you could find at dollar stores at the time!

[@Lion_McLionhead]

Deinterlacing for display on the internets was the great struggle in those days. The deinterlacing looks real good. Lions were on their 3rd low definition camcorder by 2003 but of course were much older.

[@warwagon]

I don't know what it is about the quality of recording on VHS, but watching things back X number of years from recording, feels MUCH more nostalgic than watching back .. HD video that was recorded on an iphone.

[@Johnny_Ultimate]

this is what my memories look like.

[@jrevillug]

Ah, nostalgic noises. My parents had a Sony Hi8 camcorder in the late 90s. I remember the power switch was mechanically linked to the lens cap, so it only opened in record mode but not playback mode.

[@jessefluke]

Man i just love this channel when iam have a panic attack i just put on one his videos and it calms my mind and brings me out of my attack......Thank you 😊

[@DragonNexus]

I wsnt expecting all that VHS footage to feel so nostalgic.

[@letsseewherethisgoes]

Never had a VHS-C camcorder growing up - we never had stuff that expensive - but family probably did. In more recent similar-era video camcorder thingys, I recently was asked to capture some video from miniDV, and was given a working 2001 Panasonic camcorder to do the playback. Ended up picking up a firewire cable and using a base model iMac G4 I fixed up recently to do the capture and export in iMovie under OSX 10.1, 2002 style. It was kind of surreal seeing it all working as intended 20+ years later, 700mhz G4 humming away, exporting SD video to the highest quality setting dv-ntsc at the breakneck speed of an hour of footage exported every two hours!

[@eekos]

Loading cassettes is such a satisfying action

[@lpaxel]

Man, how many family gatherings I've been filming and transfer them on VHS... I was amazed when I found for the first time that I can rotate the screen... Fun times

[@IHeart16Bit]

Man. This triggered something in me. For the most part i wouldn't have even noticed this was modern footage. Such an overwhelming nostalgia. Genuinely surprised you don't really see people deliberately using cameras of this era for certain things.

[@erik365365365]

LGR always makes me yearn for the holiday season

[@Belznis]

My mom won a similar one with nightvision from a bank lottery they were doing in the early 2000s when banks tried to get more clients. Family used it for quite a while for events, but due to the fact that I had to do all the editing, it ended with me and we used to film all sorts of nonsense. And with the new phones and new cameras the JVC was a bit expensive with the tapes, although you could just use one and then burn the data on a dvd. The cool thing was, you could copy videos to the pc by using the old port which not all PCs would have. So I had to upgrade my PC with a better GPU and a PCI card with the port ieee 1394 I think, forgot the name of the port, but probably ieee 1394. For early 2000s it was something really cool, brings back memories.

[@RetroGamingWithEdgarRivera]

Oh Yeah, it takes me back to the early 2000 and late 90s the good old VHS-C, I remember the most of my friends had at least one of the those VHS-C Camcorders of course some has Hi8 or Digital 8 and others like me had Mini Dv and you get the idea, it was fun to record videos with one of those and having fun and enjoyable memories for sure and has that retro of the late 90's and early 2000's style.

[@ndm13]

VHS era LGR is incredibly comfy to go back to

[@jgwd25]

The "what a dork" comment cracked me up more than it should have 😂 29:01

[@SzymekCRX]

Strangely it has "Kamera analogowa" written on the box like it was intended for a Polish market :) however as we can see in that episode that the AC adapter was actually US style plug :)

[@firstreality3867]

Really interesting how we visualize different eras based on the type of cameras and technology we used. It's like you jumped into the past. Also I'm a big fan of back alleys too.

[@MrHimompro]

I’m having early 1990’s flashbacks, except I was using digital8 and high 8. Love it. I laughed out loud. TY LGR

[@tero_kuula]

Nice, back to the 90`s 😁 Greeting from Finland, Helsinki. I really like your videos 👌

[@RolaDsigns]

dude xD , this reminded me when i was in high school , my dad used to repair these cams and i often took some to school to film stuff around , then in my room watch the them on the tv

[@hiredgun7186]

I still have this exact model in its box here as well, was well used for a couple years until it died . I got it at a radio shack close out sale for 65 bucks

[@EdwardWeissbard]

Really enjoyed this one. I remember having a older model JVC in 2000. The mechanical VHS tape adapter was surprisingly enjoyable to use. Girthy stem 😂

[@rommix0]

> Girthy stem. It really was. Very phallic looking.

[@acumbess]

Wow this broight back memories i didnt even know i had. I got in trouble so many times for playing with the vhs converter!

[@oldschooldude8370]

I still have a sony handycam 8 in working order from the early 90s. TR-91 I believe. Have new tapes and recorded ones. Gonna have to dig it out of storage now. Thanks for the nostalgia.