The BVW-65 is the player only companion to the BVW-75. It incorporates several advanced features: Four channels of FM (hi-fi) sound are implemented by recording audio modulated signal on the chroma video track. Dynamic Tracking, allows for noise free playback from -1 to +2 normal speed and a VITC (Vertical Interval Time Code) allows accurate timecode reproduction at all times.

The internal construction which uses plug-in cards makes maintenance and set-up access easy and a fully featured JOG/Shuttle edit wheel is available on the pullout sloping front panel to enable edit control without the need for an external edit controller.