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Remember Beta versus VHS, we already have a format war with high def DVD now with HD and Blueray. You'd think they would have learned from this!
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Sony
Betamax
Classic
TV
Commercial
Added: 7th July 2007
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Posted By: Cliffy |
 
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A wonderful mmachine that was one of the first to introduce electronic switching to replace the older, manually operated levers. Still working great!
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Reel
Sony
Electronics
Stereophile
Stereo
Added: 16th August 2007
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Posted By: jimmyjet |
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This is a J.C. Penney model 6217 reel to reel tape recorder from the early '70s. All it says on the back is "made in Japan," possibly by Sony, I'm not sure. This was the first reel to reel that I ever owned... if you don't count a cassette player as a reel to reel machine. It had two speakers but was not a stereo. It played monaural out of both speakers which were built into the sides of the machine. A nice little reel to reel machine for a young man like me who didn't have a lot of $$$. Lightweight, with a protective cover, it got the job done rather nicely. I worked as a radio announcer when I owned his and it was super easy to record all my own music onto reels using the station’s equipment. Quite a fringe benefit!
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reel
tape
recorder
jc
penny
Added: 23rd August 2007
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Posted By: jimmyjet |
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This is a Sony TC-630 reel to reel tape player. I had one of them back in the mid '70s. I bought it so that I could record a two man group that my buddy and I had. He played a 12 string guitar and I played a harmonica and the drums, (not at the same time... I wasn't that coordinated.) For those of you who might have had one of these wonderful machines you'll remember that it had what Sony called "Sound on Sound" capabilities. Simply put, that meant that after you had made a recording you could go back to whatever point you wanted to and record something else on top of what you had just recorded, without erasing your original recording. What I would do is record my friend and I playing a song, with me on my harmonica, usually playing something by John Denver. When we were through I would go back to the beginning of the song and using headphones, listen to what we had just recorded while playing my drums using the Sound on Sound function.
When we would play back the recording it would play everything just as if we had three members in the group! What a great machine this was! It weighed about a zillion pounds, though.
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sony
reel
tape
recorder
Added: 23rd August 2007
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Posted By: jimmyjet |
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Remember these? The first!
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Yip!
Added: 18th May 2008
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Posted By: Marty6697 |
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Taped in June of 1980 (the same month I got married), here is an on-camera detailed demo of the Japanese Sony Betamax, the SL-J7. This machine was never released in the United States, although it's close in styling and features to the American SL-5800. For its day...this machine was way ahead of its time.
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Sony
Betamax
SL-J7
1980
Ray
Glasser
Added: 30th May 2008
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Posted By: videoholic |
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