1976 Sanyo VTC 8400 V-cord ii VCR - video output in action.
Channel: Rene Gonzalez
Date: 2021-01-03

I show my repaired and maintained $300 ebay purchased mint quality Sanyo VTC 8400 V-cord ii business class VCR machine along with its twelve v-cord ii video tapes. I show the online purchased replacement capstain flat belt as well as the replacement (play/fast forward/rewind) round belt along with the damaged original "egg shaped" 1976 belt.

I explain how to patch the commonly broken (leader to magnetic tape) splices on the Sanyo V-120 cobalt doped v-cord ii video tapes. I play the 10 minute long Big Buck Bunny (Copyright (C) 2008 Blender Foundation) computer animated color film which I recorded onto a vintage Sanyo V-120 cobalt doped video tape. The analog color video recording was made via a Hall Research HDMI to analog composite adapter fed into the composite Sanyo VTC 8400 VCR video input in the 1 hour max runtime Standard "STD" speed.

The video output is amazing in my opinion considering the near 45 year age of this rare color video machine. My 19 inch commercial grade led monitor does a great job in displaying the nostalgic 4:3 aspect composite video feed. I show the pause/frame by frame function video output quality which looks hideous in my opinion.

I show eleven 1975 Quasar VX VC120, 1973 Panasonic Omnivision NV-P530, NV-P520 and Scotch SJC-30 vintage video tape additions to my vintage magnetic formats collection.

I show my ebay Germany purchased 54 piece lot of Philips, PDMagnetics, Siemens and  BASF VCC480 Video 2000 video tapes. I plan to record 1980s Sci-fi and Horror films onto the 54 VCC Video 2000 video tapes.

Rare vintage video machines have become readily available. I collect and restore vintage machines as a hobby and I do not receive any compensation on any of my videos. The wonderful comments and feedback are more than I could wish for. It is a wonderful hobby that helps me remember my late father's love of restoration. I make these videos in hopes of helping fellow collectors and restorers. If you have the patience and dedication to restore such machines then I hope this video inspires you to show your wonderful relics of our past on YouTube.

These vintage relics are wonderful examples of humanities continuing quest to capture moving images. They deserve to be shown with the world especially during the ease and convenience of modern day cloud based video streaming services in the here and now. Enjoy.

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