Exterior of the Betamax VCR (front). The concealed part at lower right on top of VCR is the TV tuner controller.
Exterior of the Betamax VCR (back). Has DIN "AV" connector and BNC "Video" connector, which may be considered less common nowadays.
Parts in the interior of the Betamax VCR (top). Main components, such as heavy-duty power source, tape mechanism and its parts (lower left), main circuit boards (right), and TV tuner buttons revealed (lower right).
Parts in the interior of the Betamax VCR (bottom): lower main circuit board (left), tape mechanism (right)
Lower right part of the bottom interor (extracted image #1 of the file:Sony SL-HF150 opened 2.jpg): bottom parts of tape mechanism
"Audio/Control heads, etc." in the top interior (extracted #1 of the tape mechanism; zoomed in)
"Video drum and its components, etc." in the top interior (extracted #2 of the tape mechanism; zoomed out)
Revealing sandwiched electronic parts, photographed from top unit. Integrated circuits to reduce amount of electronic parts and to reduce the size of the earlier Beta VCRs. Improves general functionality and reliability. Reduces power consumption.
Two main circuit boards: upper part covers the lower part. Photographed from top unit.
Zoom-in close-up of speed sensor, which adjusts the tape speed to move the tape as precisely as possible (close-up of bottom tape mechanism)
Description
The collection of images of the Betamax recorder: Sony Betamax SL-HF150. Sony SL-HF150 is too narrow to be a scope, so "Betamax recorders" is hopefully the right category.
UPDATE: This Beta VCR was either manufactured or sold in 1985.
Comment I like the idea of this set, but I think the descriptions (both captions here and file page descriptions) are inadequate in several cases (e.g. "Some mechanical parts"). If descriptions are improved, I will support this. cmadler (talk) 17:48, 23 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I still feel that the captions/descriptions are not fully suffient. I do not oppose, but I would want more description in order to support. cmadler (talk) 16:57, 26 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The new caption "Some parts..." is little better. It now tells where, within the VCR, these parts are, but not what they are. cmadler (talk) 18:11, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
