Wanted: Panasonic NV-HS 1000 (or similar)
 

Hi all,

probably weird for a first-time poster to start with a "WANTED" thread, but here we are.

Anyhow - here's a very short intro:
This forum helped me a lot a few years back when I was researching which Digital8 camcorder to buy.
Recently I used this forum a lot to research all things VHS capture.
So I signed up for 3 years membership, but actually had no intentions to ever post anything.
I only wanted to support and show my gratitude by becoming a premium member.
Again: But here we are. :)

I'm located in Germany and I'm looking for one of the suggested PAL Panasonic S-VHS recorders:
Blaupunkt RTV-950
Blaupunkt RTV-965
Blaupunkt RTV-966
Panasonic NV-FS 200EG
Panasonic NV-HS 1000

If anyone from Germany or the EU (with reasonable shipping costs/total costs...) is willing to part with one that has been professionally refurbished recently, please let me know.
Or please let me know if you can point me to a trustworthy shop where I could find a refurbished model.

FYI:
1 week ago I bought one on eBay and learned the hard way, that all warnings here on this forum are valid. ;)
I was lucky though, the seller took his non-working deck back and refunded me.

Thanks for reading.

I’m also looking to buy a PAL VCR. I don’t know who I should trust.
There’s a seller called dragonxdragon that sells lots of PAL vcr with good reviews, but I don’t know. Hopefully somebody here can guide us to the right place to get a fully funcional pal vcr.

I have a PAL ES15

Thanks!

It took quite a while for my post to be approved, so after one or two weeks, I lost interest to check 20x a day. :laugh:
(No disrespect - I get that there are more important things in life - it's all good. :))

So I jumped the gun again and was lucky with a seller by the name of hifi*berlin.
A but pricey, but the VCR was professionally refurbished and works like a charm.

In Europe:

https://vcrshop.com (Dutch shop)

https://www.ebay.it/str/dragonxdrago...75.m3561.l2563 (German ebay seller)

I do not personally recommend these sources, because I have not bought anything from them, but heard good feedbacks. Check you have all needed guarantees before buying!

Thanks. I just bought a JVC HR-S7600EU from vcrshop, and a capture card from lordsmurf (I already own a ES15 for extra TBC(ish) setup).

Please report here your remarks about the VCR once you intensively used it.