Japanese Sony SL-HF3000 Betamax Unboxing Video - June 12, 2014!!

At long last, I got one of my "dream" Betamaxes - the Japanese version of our SL-HF1000, the SL-HF3000 SuperBeta HiFi. Here is yours truly, unboxing and setting up this gorgeous Betamax!!! Be sure to watch in HD!

[WeatherSTARIII]

Beautiful machine, I've always had a interest of electronics and audio/video equipment and I've never owned any Betamax's before. You are so lucky! Great find!

[CoopyKat]

I love the CBS Special Presentation at the beginning.... : )

[Vladislaw]

Ray, I’ve recently bought Sony EDV-5000 - my first Betamax machine! At last! Thinking now of buying the SL-HF3000 video recorder. The one isn’t in top cosmetical condition, but it works. I’m buying it mainly for sound recording.

[GoldSrc_]

Man, that's one gorgeous Betamax.

[TheSkullArmyMC]

Been hooked on that site, and every time a 1000D pops up on there, it goes into my bookmarks page. Man! Do I want a 1000D!!! 

[jamesydunlop]

Congratulations on your wonderful beta deck.

[yudiyudi]

Saya punya player sony betamax hifi seri SL HF 950 tapi saya juga suka yang model ini juga, modelnya keren 👍👍😊😊

[trapflag]

Sweet machine, congratulations and thanks for sharing the video with us.

[nvmbrsdoom]

That's a wonderful machine, congratulations on such an awesome deal.  Thanks for sharing this vid.

[voltvids]

Not an S video, control L for use with an edit controller. The T jack is for control T that connects 2 SL1000 or 3000

[hangarcoleccionables]

you have got yourself a new subscriber my friend

[Xicohtencatl_Xayacate]

Ray Glasser! Long time no see! xD

That's the VCR I always have wanted! xD

[Betafreak_GE]

Because of these videos I have imported the SL-HF3000 from Japan 😃

[thereallantesh]

That really is a beautiful machine. So I'm wondering now that it is 4 years later if it is still working well for you.

[AnthonyMaw]

You will notice the there is a button to turn the Beta Hi-Fi off. If you wonder why anyone would want to do that, it's because Sony never mentions in it's marketing materials that enabling Beta hi-fi audio reduces the video resolution because the audio FM carrier signals take away some of the bandwidth of the video. So although Betamax was sharper than VHS with hi-fi off, if you turn Beta hi-fi on, the picture quality is is noticeably fuzzier and becomes about the same as VHS. Great find thanks for posting the unboxing hope it still had that "new VCR" smell.

[gdavisFTA]

FYI - The jacks marked "PCM" on the back are just regular video input/output jacks. The "PCM" designation is because you can connect them to a Sony PCM F1 device which turned analog audio into digital, and then into a video image which could be recorded on any video recorder (of course, it worked best on a Beta machine).

The "S" jack is actually a "Control-S" connector for edit control between this unit and a Sony VHS machine (such as the SLV-R1000).

And although this machine looks very nice, in 2015 I got a Sony SL-HF2100 in A+ refurbished condition. Although I miss some of the features from the SL-HF1000 (had three of them), the newer electronics in the 2100 really do seem to give a better picture.

[sixtopragaalba]

Great machine, a jewel, with jogging button, de luxe player, no one Blu Ray of today has got that presence,
take it care very much that awesome gadget.

[richardcrook]

That is a beautiful thing, without a doubt.

[bashbrannigan]

With the streamlining that's common these days, something is lost as the old equipment is just beautiful to look at.

[Rudolf_Edward]

Love this machine! Unfortunately, only NTSC with 30 frames? Fortunately: a PAL version in my home: Sony SL-HF750…
LOVE the format!