SilverWook said:

Shatner did it. 😉

Some of the U-matic decks I used in college looked similar. The studio had been built and equipped when the campus was built in 1975, but due to lack of funding the whole thing was in mothballs until 1986.
One of my instructors liked those old dinosaurs better than the front loading models, as you could "pop the hood* to do routine cleaning and maintenance.

That VCR is a beast. By the way, I just rewatched that scene and it was a baseball game that he recorded, rather than football (which I guess is apparent in your screenshot anyway). That TV brings back memories. When I was a kid we had a 25" console TV similar to that, an RCA. I loved that TV.

Super VHS was marketed to professionals. We had an editing system for it back in college, one of the first models Panasonic put out. I actually learned how to edit videotape on those behemoths. Most of my own video projects I shot on S-VHS. And a then brand new local tv station in the early '90’s here was almost exclusively S-VHS, save for a couple Betacam decks.

Well, there were professional standard VHS machines (“broadcast decks”) too (Panasonic AG-6810 for example), but VHS, like S-VHS, was still considered a consumer format in general (there were even about a dozen pre-recorded movies released for S-VHS). 30 lines of chroma resolution is well below the NTSC broadcast standard of 120 lines. From what I understand, S-VHS and ED-Beta were only used professionally as a lower-cost alternative to Betacam SP, which was the de facto standard.

Also, I’m finding conflicting information about ED-Beta’s chroma resolution. At least one source says 100 lines (which is the same as Betacam) while others say 30 lines (which is the same as VHS, S-VHS, Betamax, and SuperBeta). I’m inclined to believe it only has 30 lines, because if it had 100 lines it would be superior to Betacam SP (higher luma resolution and equal chroma resolution). A Popular Science article from June 1988 indicates 30 lines:

In the ED Beta system the color (or chroma) part of the video signal is recorded at the same frequency as earlier systems.

The earlier systems were SuperBeta and Betamax, and those both definitely had only 30 lines of chroma resolution.