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Reinhart
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 Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 2:19 am Post subject: Been a while: recent player acquisition and rare model find. |
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It's been a while since I've posted here.
First, I had acquired an SKT-400. Got it up and running after just some minor work. It will need some parts, however, but I've sent an e-mail to CEDAtum.
Second is a rare player sighting on YouTube; a Zenith VP-4000. It's a stereo model that appears to have been made by Toshiba.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ywQNllZDg |
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blindfury420
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 9:23 am Post subject: |
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Nice find on the skt-400! Also that vp4000 video is mine! The player is essentially a vp550 (toshiba) clone!
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SelectaVision420
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| Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2015 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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dang i thought it was my vp video lol
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Reinhart
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| blindfury420 wrote: | | Nice find on the skt-400! Also that vp4000 video is mine! The player is essentially a vp550 (toshiba) clone! |
Thank you, though I'd say that your stereo Zenith is an even more impressive find, especially as it appears to be in extraordinarily excellent condition.
Speaking of Toshiba, I'd love to find a stereo model of that brand. I wonder how your particular player is with picture quality.
IMO, the CED player with the best image quality I've seen has been the Hitachi VIP-2000R; the thing I notice with CED is that the edges have what appears to be dot crawl, but the VIP-2000R appears to have a smoother image. Unfortunately, the one I've got had some problems so now it's in my closet as a parts unit. Now I just need to find another one.
In the meantime, when I get the SKT-400 properly fixed up, it will replace my SGT-250 as my main player in my entertainment system. |
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SelectaVision420
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:21 am Post subject: |
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were you able to get the remote specific to the k400, or is it the universal command remote?
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Reinhart
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| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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| SelectaVision420 wrote: | | were you able to get the remote specific to the k400, or is it the universal command remote? |
It's the one specific to the 400; The SelectaVision Random Access Control Center.
However, it may be the older version of the remote as the REJECT key doesn't use the typical EJECT symbol.
The remote also had its own original box. |
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SelectaVision420
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 3:26 am Post subject: |
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thats interesting! the k-400 should have a more modern key pad, unlike the j-400, can you use the serial number to decode what time it was made? maybe its an early k-400?
The 9 digit number is found on the serial number label on the back panel of the player and also inside on the front or side of the chassis.
X X X X X X X X X
The first digit is the year. 1980- 1984. Example a 2 is 1982.
The second and third digits are the week. Example 14 - a week in March
The fourth digit is the day of the week - Sunday = 1
The fifth digit is the player production line - a 1 or 2 or 3.
The remaining 4 digits are the player ID number
Serial number example: 213231905 This player was made in 1982, 13th week on a Monday on line 3 and the ID is 1905.
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Reinhart
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| Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2015 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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So, according to your information, my SKT-400 was made on production line 1 on April 10, 1984. (15th week of 1984 on a Tuesday)
I wonder when the last SJT-400 was made.
Indeed, I wonder exactly when RCA canceled player production; I had heard it was some time in 1984 that they stopped making them.
And, on the original carton the player came in, there is a sticker identifying where the player was shipped from (D&SPD Family Stores, 2000 Clemens Bridge Road, Deptford, NJ. 08096) as well as where it was shipped to, which may also have been where it was sold from (RCA Family Store at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, room 761, in New York City, possibly sold to a fellow named Ray Meyer as that's the name it says it was going to). |
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SelectaVision420
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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cool!
here is my vp4000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zWQpD8WkTc
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Reinhart
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I've seen it. I was very surprised at the existence of such a machine, a Toshiba built model from Zenith.
The only Zenith I had come across was the VP-2000.
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blindfury420
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| Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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There is 2 players and 2 of us Reinhart. Selectavision and I (Blindfury420). We both got them from Josh who also on these forums!
Nvm this post if it was obvious to you haha
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JCP 686-5705
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SelectaVision420
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| Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2015 5:12 am Post subject: |
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oops indeed! sorry if there is confusion! ( tom also has one ) so there are 3 known to exist, but there must me a few more out there! ryan and i got ours about the same time, but mine needed work, so it took me a but before i could get it running, didnt realize its been running for a year now 
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ketonic_dude
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| Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:55 am Post subject: |
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| The VP4000's came from a gentleman in Nebraska who's mother owned a Zenith dealership. Zenith had sent them those players as models or samples of some sort. The guy said he bought one from the shop and after the program got canceled she gave him the other one. The one that Ryan has still has the original box, all the paperwork, and most importantly...the original remote. It was quite the find indeed and I couldn't think of two better people to own such beautiful machines. |
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