Sankyo STD-2000 (c. 1977–1979)
The period record identifies the Sankyo STD-2000 as a front-loading cassette deck. It is not a camera, despite the category this page happens to sit under. Documentation is thin, and most of what survives is Sankyo's own advertising plus one brief published comment.
Sankyo's ads promoted an "automatic front loading system" that drew the cassette into place mechanically. The claim was that the tape loaded perfectly every time and ended torn-tape worries. The same ads quoted a signal-to-noise ratio of 66 dB at 5 kHz with Dolby, wow and flutter under 0.65% WRMS, total harmonic distortion under 1.5%, and a frequency response of 30-17,000 Hz.
HiFi/Stereo Review (1979, p.54) gave the deck a short but favorable comment. It judged the sound excellent both on tapes recorded with the machine and on high-quality prerecorded tapes. The reviewer found the auto-load feature convenient but said it took getting used to - when a cassette was ejected, you had to grip its edge firmly or it tended to slide back in.
Little else is documented. No production years, original price, or wider review history appears to have survived.
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