What a BETA tape looks like played in a VHS machine

Ever wonder how an old Betamax tape would play in a VHS machine?

I also give a shout out to Ray Glasser who's collection inspired me to try this

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Beta
• Betamax
• Sony
• VHS
• retro
• experiment

[Graphicspittz187]

Did you try pressing the tracking button?

[uwtitanfan]

@Graphicspittz187 wouldn't work. Video heads make a different path on the tape for VHS

[samplesmasher]

you should try to switch off the "blue-screen" function on TV/other Vid.... maybe you could see something more...

[uwtitanfan]

@samplesmasher TV dosen't have that option, the service menus don't give that option either. Playing it back into the computer dosen't work either.

sorry :)

[MetallicBill]

@uwtitanfan Not blue screen filter though some might be fooled. I wonder about that Editing deck, is that Mitsubishi (Diamond Head script on the door). I tried to get myself a HS-U80. IIRC, I have several Mits that gave up the ghost

[uwtitanfan]

@MetallicBill It's a temperamental samsung. It works, but you need to jam something in the cassette door since it likes to eject tapes at random with out taking the tape back into the cassette

[LuigiGodzillaGirl]

The audio still sounds great. I'm actually surprised the VHS player was able to pick up anything at all! Gotta love the Analog age. You can't get fun results like this from DVD and Blu Ray experiments.

[didogazeto]

BSOD?

[JustinSucker]

@crashbandicoot4everr ow buddy buddy...the world is funny

[crashbandicoot4everr]

@JustinSucker what's up niggah?

[JustinSucker]

@crashbandicoot4everr DON't fuck with didogazeto -_-

[crashbandicoot4everr]

@JustinSucker what's your prob and u are calling me names?!

[JustinSucker]

@crashbandicoot4everr FUCK YOU AND I HOPE U KNOIW WHY

Sorry man but next time just try thinking with YOUR brain in the head >:-?

[crashbandicoot4everr]

@didogazeto noob...its not pc its vcr

[IsItEarthYet]

watching this again after a few years & i'm STILL amazed that U got even the audio track 2 play.It's no surprise tho because i think vhs is universally capable of playing the original vhs "4 hour mode" recordings even tho that hasn't been a recording option since the late 70's.When i bought my Panasonic portable stereo vhs deck in '82,the "LP" mode wasn't even an option for recording anymore but all vhs vcrs would play the LP mode back, perpetually. I think the beta was closer to vhs "LP" mode.

[crashbandicoot4everr]

but if you overwrite this will it play fine?

[coolvideogamekid1]

the quality on this is TERIBLE. please search coolvideogamekid1.

[sparticus214]

haha well apperantly the bata max came off the self amd them straight to the junk yard i was born in 1991 had hundreds of vhs tapes of but i do now remember my grandparents mite have had one beta tape i but we did have a camcorder that used mini vhs tapes and had a converter for a vcr