1984 Sharp portable VCR
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- In decades past, basically anything with a handle on top was considered "portable." This 1984 Sharp "My Video" VC-363 falls into that category, featuring a mono VHS VCR, analog TV tuner, timer, wired remote control, optional battery pack, and padded carrying case.
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What a cool portable VCR! One of those things would really come in handy.
I just got mine delivered. I paid $7.00 minus shipping. I tried it out, and it actually works. Happy I don't have to buy belts. It also came with a battery, instructions and a camera. I'll try the camera as soon as I find my blank tapes. Mine is the "My Video" VC-3500. It was made in 1982.
Lucky u
In their day, Sharp made some great stuff, only problem was that they didn't supply band-aids for those who cut their fingers when using them....Well....They were "Sharp" after all! LOL
hiw much this is now 2019 ?
@Neil Forbes they certainly did and also a record player that a record you put in that sits vertical (just like a cassette) and it played both sides
Wish I would have kept my portable VHS recorder. It had an external battery pack (lead acid) that had its own bag and also a camera that attached to it. Thing was a monster to carry but were talking about a camera form the late 70's early 80's. I had gotten where I used to work cuz they would do instruction videos. Now everything I can do on my phone and better. But you got to appreciate the old tech and the things that got us here. COOL VIDEO!!!!
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I use to have one of these & it was a Sharp as well. VCR’s are so basic & easy to work on, I’ve saved many from the landfill in my time & still have most of them today in working order & used in my house. I would be checking the belts first in this one.
Holy crap, that thing is huge for a portable VCR. I have an RCA SelectaVision from 3 years prior that is half a foot less in length. Only downside is that the clock, channels, RF antenna ports and timer are in a separate non-portable unit, so you only get VHS playback via composite on the go.
Aaaaah...the memories 8) We had a "portable" vcr and camera with a pack setup like this in my high school
audio visual class and I used to lug it all home on my bike to make home movies for class projects !! Now my
cheap smart phone is more powerful...sigh.
This Sharp VHS Portable was only for the Japan Leaving rooms made because the small size of the Recorder is ideal for the small flats in Japan.
they were for early video camera recording as well as watching tapes on portable TV sets in the states
No, it was designed to work with a portable video camera. In 1984 there were no full size VHS camcorders (only VHS-C camcorders which had just came out) so the "camera" and "VHS recorder" were separate units.
I remember lugging this around on a family holiday to Sweden back in 1982 as a 13 year old. It may have been an earlier model perhaps.
@2migell The camera connector is a large round DIN plug. It is standard for consumer grade tube cameras. Professional cameras (used by TV stations) may use different connections, because they were designed to work with UMatic-S or BetaCam VCRs, not VHS.
@NASIMNASIM Before camcorders were invented, you had to use a separate video camera and VCR. You'd hold the camera in your hand and carry the VCR with a shoulder strap. A camcorder combines these two into one unit: camera + recorder = camcorder.
Thats incredible. And for seven bucks! That thing was expensive back in its day. Great find.
When camcorders came out in the mid 80s, these disappeared very quickly, because nobody wanted to lug around a separate camera and videotape recorder anymore. ("camcorder" = camera + recorder)
I was 14 years old then! I do know that those cost probably about $800 to buy. Plus a video camera (alone) for it was probably about $600 for a decent one.
In my days, this is something I wanted more than ANYTHING IN THE WORLD! I stood NO CHANCE of getting one then! My dad would NOT have spent $1500 (1984 dollars) on me! Imagine, $3 hr min wage then!
Its almost the same size as your t.v. and yet they called it portable, how funny that we carried around electronics that were 10-20 lbs. heavy in the 1980's
"Portable" basically means anything with a handle so you can carry it -- like the portable computers of the 1980s that weighed 30 lbs. and had to be plugged into AC mains power.
@FelixTheHouseFreak On the tube camera plug, pin 9 is ground, pin 10 is +12 VDC power to the camera, pin 1 is video output from the camera, pin 7 is the audio output, pin 2 and pin 8 are the video and audio shields respectively, and pin 6 is the record/pause switch signal.
Sweet. Looks like a boom box from the side. The only portable VCR's I've seen were the ones that come with the old video camera systems with the separate camera. I used one once from 1982.
If you bloggers had a Portable VCR back in the day and watched porn (recording HBO Late Night or Showtime After Hours) without being caught, please share your memories
I had a case with my vcr where the belt from the reels gearbox has melted. I don't know how and why it melted, since I found the unit under an old bed at grandma's house. I had to clean up the remaining bits of of melted rubber and replace the thing with a hair tie, a strong rubber one. Crazy stuff...
Likely needs a capstan belt for sure, and probably an idler tire.
Idler tires can be obtained from Studio Sound Electronics. When I obtained the repair kits for my Sanyo Betas from them, I was pleasantly surprised that they contained the idlers as well as the belts. I know that Sanyo made a similar portable VCR for Beta, but they don't have the kit for that particular model, so you need to find out which belts and idlers you need.
In Europe, VHS only has two speeds, SP and LP, because the quality with the slowest speed (SLP or EP) would be too low to support the higher bandwidth of 625-line PAL video. With American 525-line NTSC video, VHS supports all three speeds, although most modern VCRs no longer offer LP mode recording (all can play back LP recordings, though).
No, the tape just got unspooled. As you can see, I spooled it back into the tape housing, and it is fine.
Old VHS units and camcorders issues with tape belts Is common
Never saw that before. FASCINATING!!!
I just found the Camera over here in Patchogue ny. Funny you mentioned Hicksville. Not too far from here but 45 minutes. The whole reason why I looked up the model number. 😊
finally us peasants can afford one.
@FelixTheHouseFreak I found this one at a thrift store. They also made small units that act as a power supply for the camera and give you its video and audio outputs, without a whole VCR attached.
I think my grandpa had one of these things back in the 80's, he loved recording video before camcorders were around (and he lived in Plainview, right near Hicksville, it would be something if my grandpa's old VCR made it's way to you!).
I have one and it has the hand held video camera to record home videos direct to VCR tape, like wow.
Looks cool! Too bad the same thing happened to mine and I had to get rid of it about 10 years ago.
I hope you do get it fixed.
@wnyet1987 I don't know, because if you watched the full video, you would've seen that this VCR is not working!
Whatever became of this machine? I recently bought a Casio VF-3000, a portable VCR with a built-in LCD color TV, on eBay. It has bad belts, but it's in mint condition in the box with all the original equipment, and I'm very excited to get it.
Someone on CZcams expressed interest in buying this VCR, and I took them up on their offer.
vwestlife Darn. Looks like somebody already beat me to the punch! Did you ever get it fixed to the point where it would play cassettes?
vwestlife Can this VCR play PAL and SECAM VHS tapes?
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No. It is NTSC only.
It was called a Sharp videoChamp 3300 in Australia. I saw one the other day. for $50
this is so beautiful.
Never seen this kind of Portable VCR before
I use have one of these once, I would still have it if someone didn’t give away to their friend! Mine worked well too.
@vwestlife Thanks for the pin out! I just got from a thrift store about an hour ago and found one of those power supply/video output modules just like you told me about along with an RCA color tube camera. Unfortunately i learned that both my tube cameras dont work. One only lights a small LED, and the RCA only displays the picture in green. Oh well.
Nice to learn a couple of things about this though.
i love your cart tv mate
If the camera works, I am going to use it at the Renaissance Festival this weekend, yay-yuh.
@2migell I doubt anyone makes batteries for it anymore.
@vwestlife Thank you for the info. Finding the adapter that does not require the entire VCR would be amazing.
I also want to see if i could possibly wire it up somehow myself. Would probably need the schematic.
Love the Amdek composite monitor. How are they all still working perfectly, 25 years later?????
Did you ever get it to work? This is the first time I've seen this video. Looks like a pretty neat thing.
@2migell I found it at a thrift store. Never did anything with it afterwards though. Both cameras dont work properly.
I buy parts from StudioSound....they have belt kits for old VCR's .
Hey VWestlife, I just purchased a Magnavox Portable Video Cassette Recorder. I did not receive the power cable with it and I don't know what type of power connector it is. It came with a battery but I don't know how to charge it. On the side of the machine there is a "DC IN 12V" with a connector that kind of looks like a bigger version of the s-video connector. Would you happen to know what the connector is called so I can by a power supply to power the unit? It would really help a lot and I would really appreciate it. Thanks
It's probably some kind of proprietary connector, so you'd need to find the correct power supply for it.
i love it
That's a nice portable VCR! Well, my portable VCR was made by Mitsubishi, but it is pretty similar to your Sharp VCR.
Too bad your VCR doesn't work anymore! It really seems like there's a bad belt or a bad idler wheel. It doesn't sound like it has an electronical problem, I think it's just the mechanism that drives the reels. In my old Siemens VCR there was one single idler wheel responsible for these problems (when I got my Siemens it had the same problems). Replacing that wasn't complicated.
How in the world do you get your hands in these beautiful technology at such a cheap price.... It's ridiculous.
Nice thing! I have a similar portable Sharp VHS.
cool, thats similar to the vcr's we used to rent from the Hudson's Bay company when I was a kid. only they where beta. If it's just a belt then perhaps another belt from a similar vintage vcr will do?
Just found a camera that goes one of these. Its just the video camera and has a cable with about 10 pins coming out of it. I guess i should try and find me one of these things.
Were can i find one?
A VCR Boobox!
I have VC-101 Olympus portable VCR with power supply, carrying cover with strap... not sure if it works... but its for sale
I want one of these
You should get new belts for that!
3 speed VHS? I thought VHS only had two tape speeds.
I've noticed from owning both a Commodore SX-64 and an Amstrad ALT-386 "portable" computer that "portable" in the 1980s did not necessarily mean "lightweight"!
It doesn't look like a bad machine, would be nice to see it working.
wow and i thought i had a bulky portable vcr (mines from around 2002)
my portable Magnavox is pretty easy to get into the only thing was the main belt has teeth on it nice vcr
You may want to grease the mechanics a bit, especially the tightening mechanics that tightens the tape around the head. When these things get old, the grease / oil...vaporize, so you need to re-grease the entire mechanics.
Being that pretty and so pristine...I'm betting that's all what's needed...to me it seems like it's hardly been used. and in my experience with dozens of personal VCRs...greasing and oiling is the way to go.
Belts may need changing too :)
I want one!
Did you ever do it follow up on this video? I'm curious as to what was wrong,
Where do you find the space to keep all of your wonderful thrift store finds?
I don't keep all of them.
Does this have a rubber idler? I've had luck flipping those inside-out.
@FelixTheHouseFreak
hi were did you get the video out cable?
Im looking for my cmara I can not find anithing
thanks.
You didn't need a DVD player if you already have a computer that plays them. Isn't that awesome?
Hey, I have the exact same VCR, but it doesn't work. Did you open yours up and fix it?
@vwestlife
hi I have a tube camera do you know the
name of the cable? for video out?
cause it only takes 2 pins
thanks
I have a newvicon camera that plugs into one of these VCRs. The problem is that I cannot get the video out of the camera to display video. Does the VCR send a signal to the camera when the record button is pressed? Is this why I cannot view the video out when I hook it up to an EasyCap? I figured you might know something about this
No, it should work as soon as you plug it in. Does the camera have an image in its own viewfinder?
It does have a viewfinder and I can see the image through it. The zoom works, the recording light goes on, but the video out pin does not seem to be outputting a signal. I read somewhere that the VCR sends sync signals to the camera which triggers the video output
ClevelandStorms
No, the camera outputs composite video and audio and the recording trigger. The only input from the VCR to the camera is the 12 volts DC to power it. You can get a "color video camera power supply" which provides the video output directly and eliminates the VCR part.
+vwestlife Maybe my camera's video out pin is just dead. Thanks for the help! You are my favorite channel
Thumbs up!
Where does the DVD go?
Was It apart of a unit with a camera
Yes, it was designed to be used with a separate video camera.
@@vwestlife hi
Ah right, that explains my confusion. PAL format EP would look terrible.
Very cool. Too bad it is kinda broken though.
Here a portable vhs assembled in Chile
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do you know wath kind of
belt it uses
or how big
(LISTEN TO THAT SOUND) 4:09. AAAAH!!
hiw much this is now 2019 ??
@haz939 No.
Did you ever end up fixing this VCR?
hah dude i love your channel
will it blend?
Does it have stereo?
I've bought them to fix my '85 Quasar. Check it out on my other channel DaAnalogDogg86.
Rubber stuff plages these old machines which is a shame. Idler wheels, pinchrollers and belts..and they are harder and harder to find.
Sounds like a worn out idler to me.
The selling portebal video cassette recorded
cool:) I laik it:)
Had one new, it was not that good, even back then.
I had one of these! You can see a video I shot with it at Hofstra University back in 1983: czcams.com/video/gR0HA2pXQJw/video.html (There are several videos shot with this)
Hmmm I stick with my sony slf-1e
The countries that had PAL video were way out in front of the USA. PAL, German-developed as it was, was the SUPERIOR colour system. NTSC was a distant second place and the French SECAM system was a total abomination!
There is really no difference in quality between NTSC and PAL now that NTSC televisions have comb filtering. Any quality difference you see now is simply because PAL is 625 lines while NTSC is 525 lines.
I was referring to the analogue days when NTSC(Never Twice Same Colour) had phase shift error problems which, when they occurred, sent the image into negative colours(like looking at a photo negative). The problem may have gone unresolved until the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting.
What the French TV stations were too ashamed to admit was that they were kitted out in PAL-system cameras, VTRs and other devices because the SECAM system just COULD NOT cope with normal routines like, for instance, a news bulletin, switching camera from newsreader to sports or weather presenters, the colours would go completely awry. So the stations kitted themselves out with all PAL-system electronics and the signal was only transcoded down to SECAM at the absolute last stage, the transmitter! Yeah, SECAM truly WAS an abomination!!!
@Neil Forbes if you watched televsion back in the mid to late 1970's the shows welcome back kotter,good times and candid camera how *washed out* the colours were candid camera was the worst
@@top40researcher31 It could be that you had the colour control set a bit low on your set. But then these shows were coming from America, their NTSC colour system being mediocre compared to the German PAL system we adopted., but at least it was superior to France's *RUBBISH* SECAM system.
This thing is as portable as my regular VCR and it doesn't work. Throw it away.
"portable"
usa broadcast NTSC and pal i tougt NTSC is Never the same color
too archaic
Here a portable vhs assembled in Chile
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