Reely Interesting | Viva Sonyland! (1982 HQ 60FPS Sony Betamax Demonstration Video Tape) @ReelyInteresting | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
This is "Viva Sonyland" (3-703-615-01), a special 1982 promotional tape given away by Sony with the purchase of a Sony Betamax deck and used to demonstrate the features of the Sony Betamax video tape system along with advertising other Sony products.
"Viva Sonyland!" tells the story of a young girl who's parents just got a Sony Betamax system. Suddenly, a European-ish magician appears in her room and takes her on adventures through "Sonyland" to show her how "Beta is better," how the Betamax system works, Sony's factory, and other items that Sony was offering at the time.
Enjoy this pseudo-educational and very weird demonstration tape!
Fun facts: The drum size is not why Betamax can make better images, Carol does not have any children, Mr. Magician does not look like Superman, and I'm pretty sure Sonyland is not safe for children.
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This was played back using a mechanically and electrically restored Sony EDV-9000 ED Beta player.
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This is "Viva Sonyland" (3-703-615-01), a special 1982 promotional tape given away by Sony with the purchase of a Sony Betamax deck and used to demonstrate the features of the Sony Betamax video tape system along with advertising other Sony products.
"Viva Sonyland!" tells the story of a young girl who's parents just got a Sony Betamax system. Suddenly, a European-ish magician appears in her room and takes her on adventures through "Sonyland" to show her how "Beta is better," how the Betamax system works, Sony's factory, and other items that Sony was offering at the time.
Enjoy this pseudo-educational and very weird demonstration tape!
Fun facts: The drum size is not why Betamax can make better images, Carol does not have any children, Mr. Magician does not look like Superman, and I'm pretty sure Sonyland is not safe for children.
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This was played back using a mechanically and electrically restored Sony EDV-9000 ED Beta player.
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If you want to follow me for updates or want to help me afford the meds required to repress Mr. Magician's haunting laugh, please click the following link: https://linktr.ee/OpWorkshop
![1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zWF7S5uyJow/hqdefault.jpg "1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)
This is a collection of commercials for Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, & B. Sanfield intended for broadcast in the Rockford, Illinois, USA market. This footage comes from the original digital master tapes.
Not too much is known about the commercials and if any were aired. These were recorded between 1998 & 1999 for the aforementioned stores, some of which were chain retailers. As a result, a lot of the commercials appear to have used generic (analog-sourced) commercial footage (such as a segment with B.B. King) with regional information overlaid on top. Since analog broadcasting was quite low-resolution and noisy, it is almost assured that a consumer wouldnt notice the, perhaps, stark contrast between the digital & analog-sourced footage. Can you tell the difference?
In addition, some of these segments appear to simply be video-less radio bumpers.
D-9, also known as Digital-S, was JVC Victors attempt to create a competing, comparable format to Sonys Digital Betacam. The tape format uses DV compression (like the common miniDV tape), but at twice the bitrate (50 Mbps) for extremely high fidelity picture reproduction and very low generational losses. Just like how Sony used Betamax-sized tape for Digital Betacam, this tape format used tapes extremely similar to VHS in size and shape, hence the Digital-S (like S-VHS) name! In fact, the tapes are identical to and interchangeable with the rare W-VHS analog HD tape format (but the recording formats are obviously quite different)!
Enjoy these rare commercials in unusually high quality from an era gone by!
Sad fact: This tape is cursed! While other branches may exist for the major retailers, not a single Rockford, IL branch or business mentioned in these recordings exists today. That even includes the production house!
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This D-9 recording was played back using a JVC BR-D85U D-9 deck.
This is a REELY EXCLUSIVE upload! This footage is from the only known master recording.
Note: The video was edited to eliminate unnecessary color bars, countdowns, and long-spaces between segments. This recording would have otherwise been 60 minutes long!
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