Road trip to collect some fantastic studio equipment.

"Is this my Christmas present?" "Oh yeah!" "Hmmm" I think that exact conversation happened in my house a few times too. 😀

The PVM-A250 is a very desirable OLED monitor, used commonly as a reference monitor for video grading. The smaller PVM-A170 is pretty much the most common screen found in modern outside broadcast trucks and they both support 3G SDI sources too. Sadly Sony discontinued both the A170 and A250 monitors and they sell often in Broadcast auctions for more than the original price. If you can get this working again and see no visible screen burns then you will have a fantastic screen in your studio.

The gunge around the capacitors in the amplifier is most likely glue but it can become conductive over time and cause all sorts of problems.

Brings back the memories

Some good gear there-scary how worthless a lot of this has become, especially the Sony SRWs, fantastic machines, but these days, u-matic machines seem to be more in demand. The Tektronix rasterisers are very versatile and can do R128 loudness measurements with v6.7 software. The fans are always noisy on these. Most of the time this gear just needs a bit of TLC-the gears on the digi that crack, novram batteries, rubber parts, fans. Sony stopped support for 1/2” VTRs back in March this year (good job you have spare pinch rollers) and the factory at Kosai, Japan will close in June next year (remaining camera production will be consolidated to the Kohda factory), end of an era. The SRW series, the last of the VTRs.

Thank you Collin and the boys so may Video Editing and capture devices I have never seen before. Cheers Merry Christmas

Great video as always. Fascinating stuff. I don't have fond memories of HDSR machines. In my freelance work for a well known broadcaster, we had endless trouble with "channel condition" errors, compatibility between different machines, and out-of-sync audio when using audio dub. Glad to see the back of that format.

It is not leaking electrolite, that is the glue they used to stick the caps down during manufacture, just remove a couple & test out of circuit.

That junk around the caps in the Cambridge Audio amp certainly looks like this nasty circuit glue that turns brown and becomes conductive. I guess it's the same stuff Sony used in the hall-effect sensor in their Beta VCRs. By the way that iMac can officially run macOS Big Sur which is one version newer than Catalina, and with OCLP it can even run the latest Sonoma. Good stuff!

Parabéns, excelentes equipamentos! Gostei da atitude da esposa o Mac é meu presente de natal 😂😂😂 boas festas a vocês ❤

That WVR7100 is really nice. Actually quite preferable to one with a built-in CRT. Yet another item on my shopping list...

CONTENTS: Sony SRW-5500 (HDCAM SR) Sony DVW-A500P (Digital Betacam; PAL) Sony DVW-A500 (Digital Betacam; NTSC) Apple iMac TVLogic LVM-240W Sony PVM-A250 Tektronix WVR-7100 HP Z620 and Cambridge Audio Azur 340a

I can remember writing the purchase order to SONY Broadcast for an SRW-5500 at £76K plus RGB 444 Dual link options and Format Converter for a further £14K. Now they are being given away. The most troublesome format ever.

For the HP working station not working with your two graphic cards, i'd say check your Samsung monitor cause i have the same. You may have to manually change the input on the front panel.

Worth trying Vasaline rubbed into the scratched followed Iso-Alcohol to get rid of the surface scratched on the Sony monitor.

Nice to see you out and about.

Apple didn't always make them so hard to work on. I have 2011 IMACS that the glass is just held on with magnets, and the screen behind it is screwed in. I actually upgraded the RAM in one of them.

how is it going?~ Thanks-that's unreal !

Yes you can use an external monitor with an iMac but not the other way around. I run two Apple Cinema displays with my iMac

19639hrs, that's like being left on for 10 years