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We often have equipment for sale. It’s easy to get caught out on eBay and similar sites, especially with complex kits like VTRs, which are a challenge to maintain and are getting older. It is remarkable that they work so well and are so reliable. Anything you buy from us will be in decent working condition.
We also offer sale and buy-back service for Digi-Beta machines.
The Machines we sell are in perfect working order. We like to show them to you in action before you take them away. That way, you can be confident they’re working. Component failure does occur and cannot be predicted. As a result, we offer a one-month guarantee on all products and machines. We will repair, replace or refund within one month of purchase, guaranteed.
An increasing problem is the quality of the tape you put in the machine. We cannot cover damage caused by poor-quality tape, often with mould, sticky tape syndrome, creased tape, or even tape combined with sellotape. A chewed-up tape can wreak havoc on the tape heads. The DVW 500 range of digibeta machines is the most robust, and the tape path is reasonably accessible. The J series is not so good for tapes in unknown condition.
Within seconds, poor-quality tape can cause head clogging. You can clean this off with a solvent or something stronger, such as disc brake cleaner. Spray the heads and carefully wipe them horizontally, not vertically, which is the opposite of cleaning your teeth. You’ll have to learn how to do this.
We also offer sale and buy-back service for Digi-Beta machines.
We usually have several, and they’ve probably been serviced with new pinch rollers and similar items. In fact, most of the price represents the servicing costs. We guarantee it for one month, though not for damage caused by head clogging. The operating and head hours are likely high, and the figures are likely unreliable anyway. So condition is everything. If you buy one from us, it will work as it should. That is a good offer!
We will be happy to send you screenshots, but it is best to see the actual machine yourself.
The A500 model plays back Betacam SP in addition to digibeta so it is a useful machine for playback and archiving SD recordings on digibeta tape. The machines are quite a handy way of getting an SDI feed from all sorts of analogue tapes.
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