do yu remember your first video recorder - Page 2

Hom3r · 03-03-2007, 18:24

We had a huge Sony Betamax C5, toploader, We still have it

it weighed a massive 17KG, and had a wired remote control

ZrByte · 03-03-2007, 18:52

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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter

A Ferguson Videostar with a wired remote control

Me too, The Ferguson Videostar circumciser (A la Peter Kay). Kept having to have it repaired as the bulb wich allowed the machine to see the cassettes when inserted kept blowing. We never had the wired remote for the ours either as it was apparently an optional extra

**Hugh** · 03-03-2007, 20:31

1982 Radio Rentals VCR

05-03-2007, 10:45

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

1982 Radio Rentals VCR

Ha! Same here - or was it Rumbelows(remember them?)

Think it was also a chunky Ferguson Videostar - it was built like a house and weighed as much. Top loading jobbie as well...

I remember going down to the new video rental shop and hiring Silent Running.

What was your first video you hired?

handyman · 05-03-2007, 10:57

Radio rentals job also, The VCR we have no is not even connected up and has played 2 videos in its 2 year life. It played Forest Gump and I had to turn it off as the Pq was shocking and I used it to convert a wedding vid to DVD for someone. What a waste of money it is...

squirrel1970 · 06-03-2007, 10:31

Ferguson Videostar... pre-remote control days.. big chunky buttons and you had to force down the play, record and pause once you'd mastered the timer (which my parents let me do... ugh!)
Stonking great big tv in the corner balanced precariously on MFI constructed 'tv stand'... lol.. how that thing never fell I'll never know!

TV was a bloomin' great big Radio Rental thing... can't remember the make now...
I *do* remember us being the only family at church that had a video machine and yeah...*hangs head* we had the bible study group around a few times to watch religious videos (Ok, 'Chariots of Fire' and 'Joni' to name but 2...) and yeah, those days are LONG over!!!

My first blank video tape cost me ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£5 from the local chemist... back then, they were expensive and only a few shops could sell them......

gazzzman · 11-03-2007, 22:56

another n1500 here! remember the cooker clock on it

then the 1700
then 2*4 super v2000
then the 2080 grundig
then things got a little boring

still found no other tape machine to match the pq of the 2080!
oh and I once dropped a sony c6 down a flight of stairs it smashed a panel out of the door took a chunk out of the wood floor but remarkably... it still worked!
still got 2 philips laserdisk players (I think I am waiting for them to be collectable lol) but I think that's another thread