Mitsubishi HS-U780 Super VHS VCR

[ElvisRocksVinyl]

Never owned a Mitsubishi I would imagine they would be on the same line as JVC, I have owned a few Sonys but I find there mechanics to brittle, I havent once bought a used Sony VCR that I have had to replace a cog or other drive gears, Panasonic and Akai have always been my work horses both were great in there day. I still have my Panasonic and Akai Hi-Fi decks from the early 90s and still going strong.

[pinoy0978234]

is that a hi8 vcr above it? whered ya find that!

[ussmbus]

hi-if a possible to test sap;mts stereo antena program -channels

thanks

[SWO4LIFE2]

i have one like that.but i needs a power supply!

[vwestlife]

I just bought a Hitachi Digital8 camcorder on eBay and will be doing a review on it soon. It has the same loud tape motor noise as yours. But I got it cheap because most people probably don't even know that another brand besides Sony ever made Digital8 camcorders!

[Sundancer213]

HA I BROUGHT A DVD RECORDER AT A sec hand store with remote!

[cameron20101000]

i like mono vcrs better than hi-fi vcrs. you like hi-fi or mono the best.

[Sundancer213]

@famouswolfy YES BUT IT WILL ONLY BE NORMAL QUALTI

[philosoma9]

90's VHS videos and CRT tv's simply rocks!  and they last forever

[WinVistaUser2]

I actually found my old Mitsubishi HS-U34 VCR in my backroom (laundry room) a while ago at 2:00 PM EST (GMT -0500)

[kaiokendo]

wow

[2010mustang2]

Looks like it would have been expensive when it was new

[talldude123]

Nice find! At my salvation army in my town, I got a 1994 JVC VCR, unknown model number, mine is a nice find! It's not S-VHS though, and I had to buy a universal remote.

[polyamorous1987]

the person that gave this away probably got something that meets modern standards..just a theory

[essentialeugene]

Hey I had a Funai VCR from 1994-2003. The tape got caught in it so I took it to a repair shop and they charged me $49.00 to take the tape out. After that it worked for two more years before it broke again. I love VCR's too. Now they have in combo form.

[WinVistaUser2]

@essentialeugene I have the combo form of the Funai (now TruTech) from 2007 and the VCR part is breaking because one of my tapes got caught and my head cleaning tape wouldn't get out so I decided to open the VCR/DVD Combo to get the tape out. However, the VCR rewinds too slow, so I might buy new parts.

[cbehr91]

I saw a JVC S-VHS ET machine (that was probably a rival to this one), and it was only $20 at a flea market. I don't think those folks relize that this was a higher quality VCR, or they would've priced it higher

[WinVistaUser2]

I had a Mitsubishi VCR for 9 years, and croacked... :(

RIP: 200-2009.

Before the VCR croacked, we got a DVD?VCR Combo, and I get great sound & picture quality. It's a: Funai TruTech VCR?DVD Combo year 2007.

[nigelwindsor]

I always found Fuji double coated tapes to be the most re-silient to drop out- which was always the problem with s-vhs

[HLM190586]

While DVD is far more superior in terms of picture and video quality, convenience and low cost, i really missed the day that i need to rewind my VHS, cleaning the players head and recording TV shows to VHS.

R.I.P VHS.

[MetrobusChris]

Very nice I own a Sanyo HI-FI Stereo the colour Is I can't describe It Its like silver or grey

[stpworld]

hey nice vcr i also have a mitsubishi svhs vcr that i bought in 2004 it doesnt have the jog real or the peak levels but its still a really nice vcr for a newer one it works like a dream its not as impressive as yours but still very nice one

[bateman2006]

well the best use for a S-VHS vcr is for transferring your vhs library to DVD. I am looking for a S-VHS vcr with a time-base corrector, which basically re-creates the video, and makes even the oldest video tapes out there look pretty dang good! Then you can transfer to a DVD, and preserve whatever content you have on the tape, or basically, throw the tape away. The DVD will last 100+ years, where you can play it 1000's of times, compared to the tape, which will wear after a short while.

[Watcher3223]

Of course, so long as you use only high quality recordable media and burn using good quality equipment at the slowest possible speeds.

Fortunately, many companies make decent enough DVD recorders, including Lite-On.

Discs, on the other hand, are largely bad but, fortunately, easy enough to find decent media. Buy discs made in Japan while avoiding stuff made in Taiwan, China, or so on.

[geordieboydave]

all vcrs use to be better

[TVperson1]

Do you notice the difference between Super VHS and VHS?

[bri13615]

I bought a Scott vcr at the Salvation Army for $10 in very good condition. Scott makes high grade electronics.

[Watcher3223]

Scott usually had their VCRs made by Orion, which are cheap, but not really bad at all for the money.

[IxMCxCALLUMxI]

who ever gave it away were probably thinking that VCR is a dead product

[bmtimv]

I also have the standard vhs version of this model, I bought it new and I still use it.

[bmtimv]

where can you buy S-VHS tapes, I actually just bought an svhs player yesterday at the salvation army as well haha

[ozzman9292]

Sometimes Circuit City will have them, but now-a-days you can only really find them on the internet to order.

[cameron20101000]

@ozzman9292 Some electronic stores may still carry VCRS such as:

Walmart, Kmart, Best Buy, and a ton of Pawn Shops (For VCRS from 80s and 90s, mostly pawn shops).

[Watcher3223]

Fortunately, you can get away with recording S-VHS on true high grade VHS cassette, such as Maxell high grade.

With S-VHS ET machines, just pop it in and record.

With regular S-VHS machines, however, you'll have to drill a hole on a corner underneath the cassette. There are pictures online which can show you where to drill the hole, but this basically keeps the cassette from engaging an interlock switch, fooling the VCR into allowing S-VHS recording.

[TVperson1]

I've tried the ET feature. It looks fuzzy with image noise. I wouldn't recommend using it.

[Watcher3223]

ET quality can be dependent on the quality of the tape.

With standard grade tape, you may or may not get acceptable results with ET recording because standard grade tape may or may not record higher frequencies as accurately as high grade tape.

[TVperson1]

It was a TDK EHG standard tape.

[Watcher3223]

How old is the tape?

Was it made when TDK actually made their own tape or after TDK sold their media business to Imation? (Imation is licensed to use the TDK name on their own products, such as CD-Rs and VHS cassettes).

Alternatives to try from cassettes still available for sale may be Maxell HG or JVC EHG.

[AnthonyUK]

The S-VHS pic quality can vary between brands of tape that are drilled and converted to VHS ie more grain/black streaks and overmodulated white clip detail in the form of distortion.

[Watcher3223]

Not just brands, but the grades of the tape.

For instance, I'd never modify standard grade VHS cassettes because they would most likely never be able to record the higher frequency luminance carrier (roughly 5.4 MHz for S-VHS versus roughly 3 MHz for VHS) reliably and accurately, resulting in the artifacts you mention.

But, there were some high grade VHS cassettes that can record the higher frequency carrier well enough that you could get away with it with little to no problems.

[Watcher3223]

Of course, I did mention "true high grade," which would be something in the lines of TDK's HD-X Pro or Maxell's HGX Gold (or rather the older versions of that line as the newer version that's sold today, provided you can even find places that sell blank VHS cassettes, isn't as good as it was before).

[agfagaevart]

All those Mitsubishi machines were fantastic. I bought one in 1995, and it still works.

[ozzman9292]

Oh yes, I consider them to be one of the best two brand names of VCR, the other being SONY.

[MrDemonSushi]

@ozzman9292 Which VCR brand do you prefer and which do you tink is the worst brand ever?