This is a Sony Video Walkman. We all remember the regular Sony Walkman, right? No? Sheesh, alright, Sony had the big electronics device of the '80's, the cassette-playing Walkman. The Walkman made it easy to take your music with you, something that was obviously not as easy to do as it is today. There was no such thing as a portable turntable (well, maybe there was, but it clearly had very limited use).
Anyway, I found this Video Walkman, which was intended to make portable video as easy as the Walkman made portable music, at a Goodwill and it is quite a find - a sort of portable VCR. It uses a standard 8mm tape, and in the days of analog TV broadcasts could pick those up as well. As you will see in the images, it has quite the array of controls in a small package; it can switch between TV and Tape, it has all controls for both, it can display the data of the tape or not, it can output video to a TV or take video input *from* a TV, it's just an amazing device.
Sadly, you can tell from the white screen that the capacitors have gone bad, so it will need to have them replaced. That's no small task. Even so, for $6 I'm really happy with it.
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