JVC 5825 (c. 1990–1991)

Little is documented about the JVC 5825, because the designation appears to have been a telephone number, not a model. JVC's own professional-products advertising in the early 1990s told customers to call 1-800-JVC-5825 for information on the company's DS-DT900U R-DAT recorder (Recording-Engineer, September 1990, p.45). The "5825" is the tail end of that toll-free number. It has not surfaced as a product designation anywhere in the period record.

The recorder those ads promoted is better documented. The DS-DT900U was a professional R-DAT deck with SMPTE time code capability for audio/video synchronization. It had analog and AES/EBU digital inputs and outputs, 45-pin parallel and 9-pin serial remote connections for edit controllers, delta-sigma A/D conversion with 64-times oversampling, and a 256-times oversampling 16-bit D/A converter. JVC's September 1990 advertisement gave a suggested list price under $5,000. By 1991 the follow-up DS-DT900N was advertised with the same professional features - video sync, SMPTE time code, parallel and serial remote control, AES/EBU digital I/O - at a list price under $4,500 (Mix, February 1991, p.104).

No standalone product branded simply "5825" has been found in the sources available. It seems likely that this archive entry was generated from the phone number in these advertisements rather than from an actual JVC model. If a genuine 5825 exists, the documentation has yet to turn up.