Tape Loading Mechanism U-Matic VTR Sony VO-5630

As a demonstration video for my blog, I created this video which demonstrates the misc. functions of the tape loading mechanism of a UMatic video tape recorder, model Sony VO5630. It shows different drive functions like tape loading, playback, fast forward/rewind, stop, eject, ... always explained by a short German introduction.

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Howto & Style

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• UMatic
• U-Matic
• VTR
• Video-Tape-Recorder

[jcj83429]

There's one of these machines at my school's TV studio. You should show the video and audio when you fast forward it in cueing mode. The video just speeds up without stopping and switching to ffwd mode like VHS machines do and the audio slowly increases in pitch as the tape accelerates.

[delafoumento]

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[lovemylogics]

Sony originally developed the M-loading system but dropped it because the U-Load system was more gentle on the tape during various modes. Unlike the Beta format, the U-Matic format, on which Beta was totally based, didn't keep the tape loaded at all times for FF and RW operations.

While U-Load is, generally, more gentle for tape handling, when it messes up, it destroys tape, unlike M-Load which doesn't generally utterly ruin a tape when a mis-load occurs.

[vincedog3]

if there was a hardest way to load tape this is it. complex and really amazing it would work. the M loading system by Panasonic is vastly superior with its IQ transport more trouble free too. cool video though always loved watching a U matic at work.

[xeonhl2]

i always want one of these machines

[TVperson1]

Weird machine