Go Back    Forum > Featured > Marketplace

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
  #1  
05-02-2021, 06:32 AM
Vincent Vincent is offline
Free Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2018
Posts: 5
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
I've spent the last five years as a volunteer project digitizing the Space Camp tape archive. Lots of footage from whenever Space Camp made the news, advertisements put together over the years, or stock footage shot for advertisement purposes, for example.

I've digitized all manner of tape for this project: VHS, S-VHS, Betacam/SP, Digital Betacam, Hi8, Digital8, MiniDV, DV Pro, and U-Matic. Ahh, U-Matic.

And now I'm nearly done! All that remains are the rest of the U-Matic tapes. But I just pulled the three(!) really dodgy U-Matic players I had out of storage and none of them are up to the task! They barely did the job a few years ago the last time I was working through UM tapes. My "best" player's front panel just up and died last night! :-(

After these are done, I'm going to start in on the museum's archive, which is mostly U-Matic tape.

So I badly need a U-Matic SP player in really good shape! Does anyone have one they would want to part with at a fair price? eBay is such a garbage fire of players at costs that are nuts. "Powers On, sold as-is, no returns: $1200." It's insane.

I'm happy to buy it. On the off chance it would work out better for your specific tax situation to donate it, I could get you a proper receipt/letter of donation.

I would certainly prefer a BVU-800, BVU-850, BVU-900, or BVU-950. But if it has a DUB-Out port and can load and play both sizes of UM tape without issue, I would love it!

I'm out of my depth a bit when I say this, but although I do have an external TBC to attach it to, I might also 'need' one with internal TBC hardware. I'm not 100% certain. When I attached my VO-9850 (just before it died) last night to my DPS-295, the frames were still very jumpy, to my surprise.

Alternatively, does anyone know any place within a reasonable vicinity of Huntsville, AL that can service and repair U-Matic?

Thanks!
Reply With Quote
Someday, 12:01 PM
admin's Avatar
Ads / Sponsors
 
Join Date: ∞
Posts: 42
Thanks: ∞
Thanked 42 Times in 42 Posts
Reply




Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Sony U-Matic SP VO9800 Error-20 tomswift Video Hardware Repair 15 10-23-2019 11:37 AM
My Sony U-Matic VO-5630 has a strange problem Software_Solutions Video Hardware Repair 0 03-03-2015 12:01 PM
Sony BVU-950P U-matic video recorder Maintenance Manual [DOWNLOAD] juhok Video Hardware Repair 2 10-02-2011 06:08 PM
Sony BVU-950P U-matic video recorder Operation Manual [DOWNLOAD] juhok Video Hardware Repair 1 09-30-2011 12:41 PM
Sony VO-5600 U-Matic Video Cassette Recorder [SOLD] stoogedog Marketplace 1 05-25-2008 08:15 AM

Thread Tools



 
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:38 AM