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Record Player Mechanics
Record Player Mechanics
Need help advice at repairing a 70's console style record player.?


My younger brother tried hooking up modern speakers and I think he did something to the amplifier. I removed the back panel Found the mechanics and it looks completely foreign to anything I have ever seen. Is there anyone else that can help or would have me look somewhere first. When I play a record I get sound out of the speakers but it is super tinny and not very loud at all. Sounds like the entire song is played with tambourines... Sounds terrible....The mechanics of the record dropping and all of that work fine, it just the sound. Any advice?

could be that the sylus is bad or the cartridge needs to be replaced too.



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Why are mini dv players so expensive?


I have a Mini digital video cassette tape, and i dont have a camera but i was looking for just somthing to play the tape....and i seen some products were like 400 bucks, but a camera is only like 200 bucks and a camera actualy records also...so why so much more for just a simple device that plays a Tape.
when u can buy a ipod touch for 200 bucks and its so much mroe advanced than just a simple mechanics of playing a single tiny tape... or am i just looking in the wrong place do they even exsist?
i dont want to send it to a place and have them convert it becuase i dont know whats on it
But how can they charge so much for such a simple device as a mini dv player?
when the actual camera is so much more functional, advanced, and cheaper....?

thats like selling a Saw for more money then a Chain saw...

i have owned 5 miniDV vcr "players" as you call them. they are not simple players, but recorders too. miniDV system requires that the video be recorded as luminence and 2 color components. this is easily done with a camcorder because output from the CCD is color components, and the timing for reading the CCD is generated by the player itself, so everything is always in perfect and exact sync. to record from an AV input, the electronics has to decode color components from the 3.58 MHz subcarrier. and if this is playback from analog tape (VHS or Video8) the sync timing is unsteady and erratic, making it hard to keep the miniDV heads that are spinning at 10,000 rpm in step. so because miniDV players have the feature of analog input recording, they are not the simple device that a recorder that only works with "perfect" digital video input is.

when DV first came out 10 years ago, they did have DV digital only players with no analog capability that had the form factor of a computer hard drive and were meant to be used in a computer. the absence of analog record made them very unpopular, and for people that already had a camcorder that could be connected to a computer via firewire, considered an unneccessary added expense.

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