Sony VCR EV-S1000E

silron1 · Post by **silron1** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 3:27 am

Have dug out an old Sony VCR (used it for Hi8 editing in the old days) which has an excellent TV receiver on board.

Lost the remote - but would like to put the receiver capability to good use.

Searched in all the usual places but can't find a device code.

If it helps I do know the remote was a RMT-451 and offered a choice of 1 -2- 3 command modes

Post by **The Robman** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:18 am

Have you tried the standard Sony VCR codes first? Sony's pretty good about using the same codes all the time.

silron1 · Post by **silron1** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:29 am

This VCR is >10 years - have gone through all availiable European Sony Codes, negative result. - Will try searching CCF files as last resort,

jon_armstrong · Post by **jon_armstrong** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:39 am

Ron,

Here is a link to Rob Humphries Sony site regarding VCR's:

http://www.anycities.com/rhm5757/Sony_vcr.htm

There are some older device codes that Sony apparently used, but please start by telling us the setup codes you have tried. We can probably tell you what Sony protocol/device that those setup codes represent.

Since you can select VCR 1, 2 or 3, I suspect that you can ultimately get a built in setup code to work.

Also keep in mind if you are trying to get it to power on as a test, that may not work. So try with the VCR already on, whether the channels change or some other command.

silron1 · Post by **silron1** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:34 am

These are the codes I have tried both on my URC 8060 (Eur) and my 8810w (USA) using the usual direct entry method and then the 991 search method
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VCR Sony 0035 0032 1032 0000 0636 0033 0106

Post by **The Robman** » Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:58 am

Hey Ron,
Here's an upgrade for you to try using your URC-8810w. The numeric buttons 1 thru 7 all contain the POWER command using different device codes, then buttons 8, 9 and 0 contain the PLAY command using different device codes. If one of the POWER buttons works and one of the PLAY buttons, let me know which one and I'll create an upgrade for you.

Also, try this will the VCR in each of the three modes.

Here's the device upgrade...

Upgrade Code 0 = 17 D0 (VCR/2000)
27 00 81 A4 A6 A5 00 19 5D A8 40 A8 E0 A8 D0 A8
59 A8 5B A8 5D A8 5F 19 2D 19 9D
End

And here's the protocol upgrade...

Upgrade Protocol 0 = 00 27 (S3C8+)
3A 8A 42 8B 15 F8 15 05 07 02 58 01 18 01 2C 01
18 57 D0 04 B0 01 18 08 03 08 76 07 01 EB 17 76
08 01 6B 0F E6 28 F9 E6 12 08 08 08 E0 C0 56 C0
03 09 01 E6 24 05 8D 01 49
End

silron1 · Post by **silron1** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:58 am

Thanks for that Rob - will try it just as soon as my Windows PC is back on the road