[sdiy] VCR mod

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 01 August 2005 01:23 pm, R. D. Davis wrote:
> Quothe anthony, from writings of Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:06:28AM -0500:
> > OK, old thread but if you go to a second hand store and find a really old
> > VCR - the kind with twisty 'duggada-duggada-duggada' tuning knobs - I
> > think these are more immune to the sync messing that the Macrovision
> > does. Anyway
>
> Still, some of those decks are junk.  One also wants quite good
> quality video... check out the older JVC 4-head decks made around
> 1984... they're often "rebadged" (e.g., you might find the Zenith name
> on them).

Funny you should mention that specific deck,  as I just scrapped one of those.  
Along with 3-4 others...

Besides getting a bunch of useful parts otherwise,  I'm sitting here looking 
at those little panels that were at one time used to set up the channels -- 
with a bunch of multiturn pots and a 3-position selector for each channel.  
And thinking that this would make a rather *interesting* sequencer panel.

:-)

Still trying to figure out how some of that stuff might be useful,  though...