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05-25-2013, 02:38 PM
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Does anyone know of any good (text) books, such as Troubleshooting and Repair by Capelo & Brenner, that deal with Betamax and/or Betacam/SP?
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I've looked several times, and I can't really find much for just Betamax. Usually it's part of a general VCR book, like the one from Capelo. Betamax and VHS were so alike, that it's probably silly to split it into a VHS and Betamax book. Instead, they all do one, and talk about both formats where needed.

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07-23-2013, 08:16 AM
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betas SUCK to work on - as with all Sony product they are over-complicated over-engineered cuckoo-clocks
parts are also rapidly becoming unobtainium - a huge chuck of the betas on ebay are broken and most are not worth repairing.
the only decks even worth bothering with are the SL-HF2100 and the 2 Beta-ED decks
those are the only ones with S-video outputs
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