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Hopefully better than this heap of ****


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What is that Graham, an early Phillips portable video recorder?  Looks like v small spool size.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote lfc jon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 10:19pm
I'm wondering that too.
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The spools were around five or six inches diameter. I'm pretty sure they were less than the seven inch spools the (audio) Tandberg's used. The tape was half inch and black unlike the brown of the emitape. It was the "portable" version of the LDL1000, so it could be carried to different rooms, intended for the education market (where I started in AV). It was black and white only (or perhaps we must call it monochrome these days). It was also quite heavy!

The three "fiddle knobs" were needed to "adjust" the tracking, and I remember standing there like a different type of knob, trying to get the damn thing stable enough to leave with a teacher and class of kids. Tape wear was a problem as each reel was re-recorded every week, and played about ten times.

If you think that was fun, the LEA replaced it with the dreaded VCR. But at least that gave me a change of scenery - taking it to Leeds every two weeks to have it fixed!
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For anyone interested in old audio and video formats/equipment (and many other things) this You Tube channel is well worth a browse:



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I have watched A lot of Techmoan videos, this guy is vary good he doesn't go into too much Hi tech jargon, vary down the earth. It was here that I saw the Phillips ski slope tape player
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