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Posted by Adam Rice on 03/17/06 22:14
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:28:05 -0000, "Paul"
<paul02@katpawmynuts.f9.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi all. I have been given some old Philips 1 hours tapes from the 70s. They
>are chunky square tapes with 1 spool by the looks of it. Well, there is one
>big hole in the middle of the tape underneath for the tape to rotate around.
>
>Anyone any ideas what type of player I would use for this? I will look on
>eBay if I knew what to search on.
>
>Someone suggested it might be the 'Video 2000' systems but I'm not sure it
>is.
Could be N1500 (standard play) or N1700 (long play - i.e. 2 hours per
tape).
As far as I know, the N1500 and N1700 machines used the same tapes,
but you couldn't play a N1500 recording on a N1700 VCR (or vice
versa). Unless the tape is clearly marked, there's probably no way of
knowing which type of machine it was recorded on until you try it.
The N1500 is not bad for its time (1972!) The picture quality is
pretty awful by today's standards - it's slightly worse than even VHS,
I think - but it was the best thing you could get for home use in the
early 70s.
Some episodes of '70s TV programmes (such as "Pipkins"!) actually only
survive because they were taped off-air on a N1500 VCR, so these old
recordings can sometimes be pretty important from a TV history point
of view.
The N1500/N1700 were phased out by about 1980 (?) to make way for the
Video 2000 format.
Do you have any idea what is on the tapes, by the way - e.g. are they
recordings of TV programmes, or something more mundane?
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