Betas by Sanyo

The Sanyo Betamaxes were a breed all their own! They were sold at rock-bottom prices, had fair to poor picture quality, and many of them threaded like the older VHS machines -- every time you hit STOP, the tape unthreaded! They also have very low resale value in today's Beta market. Some of the units had problems with threading and eating tapes. And, many of them did not offer playback effects such as BetaScan or slo-mo in BII, only in BIII, which almost forced you to use the slower speed. And, NO Sanyo Beta recorded or played back the original BI speed.

YEAR	MODEL	SRP	COMMENTS
1977	VTC9100	$995	Recorded/played BII only; top-loader with piano keys.
1979	VTC9100A	$695	1-day, 1-event timer
.	VTC9000	$995	.
1980	VCR5050	$1195	.
1981	VCR4200	$499	3-day, 1-event timer
.	VCR4300	$699	7-day, 3-event timer; used both BII and BIII
.	VCR5000	$1095	.
.	VPR4800	$795	.
.	VTC7100X	$1770	.
.	VTC7150X	$2600	.
.	VTT481	$400	.
1983	VCR3900	$400	3-day, 1-event; had a tape-eating problem
.	VCR3900II	UNK	.
.	VCR4000	$400	.
.	VCR4500	$450	.
.	VCR6300	$599	Front-loader
.	VCR7300	$1000	Hi-fi stereo unit, with 7-day, 1-event timer; 2 heads.
.	VCR6400	$570	Front-loader; 7-day, 1-event programming.
.	VCR6800	$700	Upscale unit featuring 14-day, 8-event timer; 4 heads.
1984	VCR-3	$650	Compact unit featuring 14-day, 8-event programming.
.	VCR4400	$320	Sanyo sold a zillion of these; 3-day, 1-event timer.
.	VCR4600	$450	7-day, 1-event timer.
.	VCR4650	$499	7-day, 1-event, handled BII and BIII.
.	VCR4670	$500	14-day, 8-event programming; 3 video heads
.	VCR4750	$650	Same features as the 4670
.	VCR4900	$600	14-day, 8-event timer; 2 heads; wireless remote
.	VCR7200	$700	Beta Hi-fi unit with 14-day, 8-event programming.
1985	VCR4020	$350	7-day, 1-event programming, 2-head unit.
.	VCR4030	$380	14-day, 8-event timer
.	VCR7250	$680	SuperBeta hi-fi unit with 14-day, 8-event timer.
.	VCR7500	$750	Beta Hi-fi unit, with 14-day, 8-event programming.
1986	VCR4010	$220!	7-day, 1-event programming, 2 heads.
.	VCR4027	$350	7-day, 1-event programming.
.	VCR7150	$350	14-day, 8-event programming.

I REALIZE THAT MANY OF THESE ITEMS ARE SKETCHY. IF ANYONE CAN ADD ANY INFO ABOUT THESE MACHINES, I WOULD APPRECIATE THE HELP!! PLEASE E-MAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFO!!!

Notice the similarities of these two boxes:

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