Yep what I indicated in my post #7.
Later you could just buy a "stabilser" box for a few bucks. I think even Conrad sold it later officially but as a kit. I don't know how they got around the legality issues but nobody seemed to care much about that back then.
Video2000 was a bit of a disaster. I was there when it was introduced in the Funkaustellung Berlin late 70's as some great new wonder machine.
I was given one later but it never worked properly and I honestly didn't know what to do with it. Mechanically very tricky.
That old Sony portable Betamax I mentioned earlier, I think I might still have it, was built like a switch watch and never failed no matter how bad it was knocked around. It even survived the 18V when the regulator of my DIY 12V supply crapped up.
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