The V8800 is actually V2000 rather than VHS. Huge recorder with a double sided tape! Technically better than VHS though never fully developed! Glad to see the virus is not completely dominant! 😁

Peter wrote:

The V8800 is actually V2000 rather than VHS. Huge recorder with a double sided tape! Technically better than VHS though never fully developed! Glad to see the virus is not completely dominant! 😁

Peter, I should have realised you wouldn't have mistyped 'V8800' rather than 'V8000'! 

I'd forgotten all about B&O's use of the Phillips Video 2000 system - I can remember it being lauded as technically superior not just to the JVC VHS system but also to Sony's Betamax.  Very tempting, but I can and will resist!

Cleve

They have a veneer finish and in some ways resemble a very large Beocord 2400 (if you close you eyes!)

Cleviebaby wrote:

I'd forgotten all about B&O's use of the Phillips Video 2000 system - I can remember it being lauded as technically superior not just to the JVC VHS system but also to Sony's Betamax.

The main technical advantage in Video 2000 was that it had dynamic tracking. The video heads were mounted on piezoelectric chips and could be moved a little in relation to the video track very fast. This is needed for all special operations because fixed heads can't follow the entire 1/50 sec length of video track if the tape speed is anything but normal play/rec; thus V2000 decks achieved flawless special ops with only two video heads. Other formats followed with 4 or even more heads later, but still struggled to get rid of the visible noise bands.

Apart from this, the visible quality differences between formats weren't that great and often had more to do with the quality of a particular implementation than the format itself. The Betamax mechanism was inherently much faster in changing modes than VHS, though.

So, just left with the two Beograms. £100 for the two-surely a reasonable deal!

Simon

Man, if only i was over there! I have been aching for a 120x

Evan wrote:

Man, if only i was over there! I have been aching for a 120x

1202... beautiful!

burantek wrote:

Evan wrote:

Man, if only i was over there! I have been aching for a 120x

1202... beautiful!

Thats the one for me! The background on my iPod is a pic of the tonearm from a 1202! 😂

jump on a jumbo-pop down to Devon. Pick up two Beograms, place in overhead locker-job done!

Simon

simon8201 wrote:

jump on a jumbo-pop down to Devon. Pick up two Beograms, place in overhead locker-job done!

So does that include trans-atlantic airfare?! 😂