Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck
Rebuilding An Obsolete IC To Save A Betacam SP Tapedeck No comments by: Tyler August July 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st century, in the “SP” form. In many places, it would have been the last tape format in use. So it is perhaps understandable that [ldursw] decided to recreate an obsolete and unobtainable IC to save a Sony broadcast-grade editing Video Tape Recorder (VTR).
- ▪Rebuilding An Obsolete IC To Save A Betacam SP Tapedeck No comments by: Tyler August July 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st ce
- ▪In many places, it would have been the last tape format in use.
- ▪So it is perhaps understandable that [ldursw] decided to recreate an obsolete and unobtainable IC to save a Sony broadcast-grade editing Video Tape Recorder (VTR).
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Rebuilding An Obsolete IC To Save A Betacam SP Tapedeck No comments by: Tyler August July 30, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st century, in the “SP” form. In many places, it would have been the last tape format in use. So it is perhaps understandable that [ldursw] decided to recreate an obsolete and unobtainable IC to save a Sony broadcast-grade editing Video Tape Recorder (VTR). Still mad, perhaps, but in a way we very much appreciate. The Sony BVW-75 VTR had an odd flaw where the output lacked colour, unless paused with dynamic tracking off. Then colour would appear, but only in odd stripes. Clearly the chroma circuit was at fault.
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