SONY SLV-960HF Stereo 4-Head VCR

[Music] deep in the depths of the internet a guy hooks down the de VCR and talks about this is a Sony s lv 9 9 8 HF from around 1999 what attracted me to this unit and the fancy jog shuttle wheel is this feature called flying erase head so in addition to your standard earase head there's another head added to the Videodrome right here so you've got video heads here for video heads to elasmosaurus additional head here it's used for erasing the tape right before the other heads so the head spins in this direction you line that up again so what will happen is this will hit then it'll record the first field and audio then the second field and audio then it'll erased the next bit so this actually erases both fields so two tracks as it goes past so close erase then one and two and the hi-fi audio this penetrates deeper then the video signal so because it's at a lower frequency it essentially