1988 Mitsubishi HS-U80 S-VHS VCR

i've wanted one of these for years, and this one is now mine. one owner-low usage, damn-near pristine cosmetics,
fresh tune-up/maintenance work in the service shop, and 40 of the better quality late-80's S-VHS cassettes...

 

Now, that's a VCR!

 

she's a right proper imposing beauty, all right. i even have the original brochure. all i need left is the service manual;

 

Your appreciation for Japanese engineering is impressive!

 

Lucky dog!! I need something nice to transfer old home VHS movies to my Sony DVD recorder. That beauty would be perfect. How did you come by it?

 

Wow. really cool man. Has a great vintage look and is built like a beast. Congrats!

 

I remember having one of those and it spending weeks in the shop over some "comet shaped sparkles" problem that I don't think they were ever able to completely fix. I loved it and then hated it.

 

Ebay. around $200shipped...

 

due to show up tomorrow!!! (11/10/14)

 

any time now, ohboyohboyohboy...

 

Looks like a great machine. Congrats

 

$200 for a vcr? why?

(please excuse my ignorance...im just curious)

 

That is a thing of beauty. I'd love to have that. What's the first movie you're going to play on it?

 

and here we are;

 

- it needed, in my opinion, some lubrication of the mechanism, and a good cleaning of the inside surface of the FL display window,
which, of course, necessitated a front bezel pull.

it now operates perfectly, though to my eye, it's playback PQ, while excellent, simply isn't as good as that of the JVC HR-S8000U.

it somehow seems grainier, and less detailed in washes of high lighting.
perhaps it is this deck's digital video processing that is at fault?
perhaps it's said processing electronics simply aren't as good as the HR-S8000U's? i dunno.

this is one SEXY VCR, in a big, brutish, manly sort of fashion, and i'm grateful to finally own one, -and such an excellent example, at that-
but i must confess i'm a little disappointed in it's raw performance,
which i was hoping would be at last at parity
with my "Class-up-the-Ass" seemingly peerless JVC HR-S8000U...

 

send me a PM if you need one of those old rewinder things.....have one in the attic!

 

first thing i played on it, for eveluation purposes, was my MAXELL SQ-ST120 S-VHS recording of the 2007 Anime "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" as seen above.

first prerecorded hollywood film me and the family sat down to on this thing was THE RUSSIA HOUSE, since that was the last tape we had to see
in a stack of VHS that we were going through at the time...

 

thank you. i've a dual-direction KINYO model, and several more of the very same exact design, -clearly OEMed for different brand names-
tucked away, so i am not hurting for VHS winders, though i'd love to obtain one of those industrial-grade SIMA models that allow you
to directly clean the tape as it winds...

 

Wait. So, according to the pics you posted, that VCR delivers such excellent video quality to a non CRT-TV? Wow, I'm impressed.

 

tidied up that rat's nest of internal wiring with a few zip ties;




heavy-gauge "Audiophile" power cable installed at some point by the original owner, has an Audioquest brand ferrite "RF STOPPER"

 

it really does. the JVC HR-S8000U, however, performs even better. JVC must have had some world-class engineers on staff to have squeezed so much performance into so compact a chassis;

 

Look for an Panasonic Proline AG-1980. There's way, way more of them around and it will suffice.