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In article <ant09162...@pvigay.interalpha.co.uk>, Paul Vigay
<pvi...@interalpha.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <ant06203...@mcmuir.global.co.uk>, Malcolm Muir
> <URL:mailto:mcm...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > In the early 1980s the VCR market was driven by the rental companies who,
> > naturally, went for the cheapest option and so VHS machines predominated.
> > I bought a Sony Betamax SLC7-UB in 1982 on merit and it is still going
> > strong, with a superb picture and is incredibly easy to program.  Sony
> > still service them in this country and manufacture a number of Betamax
> > models to sell to the more discerning world outside.
> 
> I have a C7 and a C5 (Sony, not Sinclair!) and both are going strong. However,
> (and we're getting more and more off thread here), do you know where I can get
> a circuit diagram of a Sony SLV-815 video recorder switch-mode PSU from. I've
> tried Sony and they say it's a replacement module - which at 100.00 is a bit
> much if only a capacitor has gone!

I have followed this thread for sometime now.  I too have a Sony Betamax
tape machine, a "Super Beta" to be specific.  It is 12 years old now and
works perfectly, never having been worked on.  I also own several Sony VHS
machines, as well as 2 8mm decks (one hi-8) and to top it all off, a
Pioneer laserdisc player.

The beta machine is w/o doubt the best of the bunch.  Except for the price
diffferential, I could never figure out why someone would prefer a VHS
(even one by Sony) over a betamax.  In this regard, the comparison between
Apple and Wintel is appropriate.

-- 

--Steve Bland--  "Yes, I do view life through blue-tinted glasses"
                 
                  1996 NCAA Champions--University of Kentucky!!!

                  Coached by Rick Pitino (The New Jersey Nets?  No 
                  way, folks!!!)
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