The first Betamaxes where basically mechanical in function with levers and piano-key type buttons. For these early Betas you had to actually get up and pull a lever to pause out a commercial. But that quickly changed when solenoids began to be incorporated into the design. Now you could control many of the VCR functions remotely, without ever leaving your easy chair. In time everything had a remote and the remote had everything. The Magnasonic made by Sanyo came in two models and were a test for Beta in the marketplace. One came with a wired remote and the other less expensive one came without it. This MVC 700 was the unit with no remote. Neither model sold well enough for Magnasonic to venture further into Beta. |