Sony Super Betamax
SL-HF750. From the year 1986. Sold for $1,300. 21-day,
8-event programming. Introduced B-I recoding in
SuperBeta with great picture quality. Has unusual "linear skate cassette
loading" mechanism that loaded a cassette like a CD, frame-by-frame and slo-mo
in forward and reverse, 4 heads. First Betamax to have a limited on-screen
display; recorded and played back all 3 Beta speeds in SuperBeta, BI, BII,
and BIII. Has edit switch to improve picture quality when dubbing tapes,
Electronic Tab Marker Indexing for marking and retrieving up to 15 points on
one cassette, and even has a locking Betascan on the machine! The remote
control had all this, plus a jog/shuttle wheel for precise frame editing. |