On Saturday, September 7, 2013 8:57:28 AM UTC-7, wrote:
Yes, but that doesn't solve the "betamax syndrome".



This is when you have a bunch of beta tapes of your kids and all that and you haven't dubbed them or anything and absolutely positively must have a beta machine to play them.

Bought an SLHF-300 (Beta) on eBay last week for $70 total. It works fine but I blew out a LOT of dust before cleaning and checking it.

It seems better than half the Beta machines on eBay are 'for parts or repair'. I have an SLHF-900 I'm sure has a bad cap or 2 preventing the capstan servo from locking. Just too lazy to get out the scope so the $70 was my easy way out.

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