| LabGuy's World: The Museum of
Extinct Video Tape Recorders
Introduction: . This museum contains almost 200 exhibits covering the early years of small format video tape recorders and related equipment. All of this equipment is in my personal collection. To date, I have invested almost $50,000 of my own money. I am a very serious collector! I am always seeking those unique pieces of video history. Feel free to contact me if you have or know of any of this equipment. . The time span of this museum covers nearly 20 years from the very early 1960s to the early 1980s. This is a period when the rate of evolution of these, now very common, products was at its peak. Browsing these pages should give the visitor a sense of this rapid climb from a high end curiosity to a common place (virtual) necessity. Some of the items displayed that do not fall into the previous category may be listed because I was personally involved in the manufacture or even the design of some of these products. Thanks to the internet, I can share this strange collection with anyone who is curious about this old technology. If you see any errors or have any questions or positive suggestions, feel free to[send me an email]. I always try to answer all questions or to include any relevant information and I always give full credit to contributors. . SIDEBAR: . On occasion, I can be persuaded to sell an item from the museum. Serious offers ONLY, please. If you have to ask, you can not afford it. I do not rent or lend equipment for actual use, because most items are not functional and/or are too precious to risk shipping. This site is preservation, NOT restoration, oriented. I have on one occasion rented some of my equipment for use as movie props. See: AUTO FOCUS, by Paul Schrader. Starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Defoe. Again, serious productions ONLY, please. I'm in it for the money and the glory! But, mostly, it's the money. ;-) . If you are not interested in the dry technical details of a particular VTR format, feel free to skip directly to [Two Inch Format VTR's] to begin the tour of my museum collection.
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