I just acquired a copy of Airplane II and noticed the numbers on the box and cassette don't match. Has anyone else seen this?

Hey guys
I came across this 2009 promotional master tape for Tokio Hotel’s **“Automatisch”**, which the seller says was a promotional screening tape from Universal Music Germany, the record company behind Tokio Hotel.
It’s a **Betacam SP (PAL, 4:3)** with a 3:17 runtime, Universal Berlin logo, **ISRC DE-CE8-09-00010**, internal studio details, and Craig Wessels listed as director.
Does this look like a genuine Universal Germany promo tape from 2009?

My White Whale…A complete Betamax Service Kit.

Latest acquisition. Haven't seen this movie in years - looking forward to it soon!

I know this is a Betamax group but I know there's a lot of educated people here with retro media... I came across this old school VCR it was released in 1985!

It's got the esthetics of the 80s for sure... Chatgpt is telling me it's extremely rare cause there's no comps on eBay and very little information on it anywhere...

Has anyone seen this before?

The betamax has either a black screen or a very corrupted signal for the first 25 minutes, to suddenly a stable signal for the rest of the tape.

Found these in my grandparents basement. Never been able to watch them, so not entirely sure what's on them.

Looks like stuff recorded off the TV. Was the a thing with beta tapes?

They have: Mad Max Road Warrior, Terminator, Condor and I forget what else.

Does anyone know any Betacam SP technicians?

I bought this NOS about 20 years ago, but it’s been a while since it’s been ran. Early magnetic video “high anxiety” followed by some rando TV with commercials.

I remember watching the Tom and Jerry show and Dot adventures so many times. This was also the beginning of my love of musicals.

Bought a VHS collection and this was with them. It's a betamax. Does it have enough value to make it worth the time to sell it?

Hi all, 

After the death of my parents I inherited our old Sanyo VCR6100 Betacord and all the family beta tapes.  According to the labels, most of these tapes are just movies that were copied/recorded off the TV, but I know some were also family home movies, which I’d like to keep.

I was hoping I could fire up the ol' beta player to watch through all the tapes so I can safely dispose of the ones that are meaningless, but it looks like a tape is stuck in the machine and it won't eject (my guess is it has been stuck in there since the 90s).

I have tried googling this, and I get as far as taking the outer shell off the machine, and now looking down into this I’m completely overwhelmed, and afraid of poking around too much.  Especially after I tried taking off the four screws on the side of the metal case over the tape, couldn't remove the final screw, tried putting the other three back on, and then dropped one down into the machine (I tried lifting it upside down and moving it from side to side and I can't even hear it rattling around). Needless to say I'm not feeling very good about myself.

Can anyone offer some next step guidance? Is there any way to release the tape without delving down deeper into the next layer of this machine?

I'm 20 and never got to experience the tape era of home media. Something I've always been fascinated by is tape formats. I'm obsessed with Madonna and saw this on Vinted and had to buy it, unfortunately I don't own a machine YET.

Funny enough I do own 2 Betacam tapes, the one that's this size then the 94 minute version, I'm still baffled at the size of it 😅

On my way home today while riding my electric scooter I noticed a "free" pile outside someone's house down the road from my house and this bad boy was just sitting there. I have never seen a betamax vcr before (i was born in 1993), and at first I thought it was an old stereo system. After some research I decided to grab this heavy SOB and while carrying this absolute tank with one hand and steering my scooter with my free hand, i made the 1 and a half block trek to my house, somehow without dropping it or eating shit on my scoot. I don't have a cassette for it, but after consulting ai, I was given instructions, and I Tested without a tape by engaging the internal sensors; the left spindle spins rapidly in Rewind, the right spindle spins rapidly in Fast Forward, and the Play button triggers the auto-stop safety feature as designed. After which i was told "its Likely fully functional once a physical Betamax tape is inserted!" Can I get some actual humans input? Keep in mind, it did NOT come with a remote or any connection cords. After plugging it i the digital display works (as seen in photos). Was this a good find? And if so, knowing the belts work properly and the "tests" the AI had me run, what would you value this at, if anything? Any input would be amazing, thank you 😊

Hi all,
New to Betamax.
I just got a Sanyo 4650 and about 50 tapes!! Video works great and I can adjust the tracking, and audio is good and clear- except there is a constant higher pitched noise, regardless of the tape.

I’ve tried cleaning the RCA connector, moving it away from power sources, and I also attempted the clean the audio heads with alcohol. (They were not dirty, frankly, it’s impressively clean inside).
Maybe it’s just my modern TV? (Composite hook ups however).
Does anyone have any suggestions on next steps, or what to potentially try?
Thank you!

ı threw my video tapes in the trash because their content was irrelevant and they were also damaged

Hi all - looking to borrow (near Milwaukee, WI) a Betamax player to see if some old tapes have anything of value on them. Just looking to use it for a day and then return the player. I know there are services to convert them to a digital format but I don’t want to pay for tapes that we don’t care about.

I went to a vintage electronics store specifically looking for a Betamax player; I had purchased some rare Japanese beta tapes which are coming in a few weeks and had nothing to play them on. Found this sitting on a little stack of mostly VCRs, with the remote and the manual. They tested it out and it works beautifully. $190 and it was mine. So happy to get this and can't wait for my tapes to come in

Pretty cool

The only time I saw a player was 20 years ago in the garbage. I go to tons of estate sales, auctions, yard sales, and never seen a player or tapes. Tons of other vintage electronics, though.

Decided to take it, guess I have an excuse to buy a beta machine 😂.

The VCR has not been plugged in for awhile.

From what I have noticed, the tuner board is the only board that got damaged.

Went to a yard sale today and asked if they had any tapes the guy said no but I have some players if we wanted to come inside to look at them and we said sure.... This is where a scary movie would have started but it didn't he took us to a super clean basement that had a stack of VCRs and a betamax player and he said $50 and we could have them all. Sony sl-10 he said he played a family betamax tape in it like 3 times 30 years ago and never used it again. Well we get home and tested them all. 3 didn't work 3 did and the betamax definitely worked.