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Anyone do this in the eighties ?
Anyone do this in the eighties ?
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I had bundles of football stuff. Wish I'd had them transferred. Just tossed them.
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I'm tempted!
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curious-cat 17 Dec 16 23:29
Despite being introduced a year after Betamax, VHS VCR standard had two very important advantages over Betamax. The first was that the VHS standard was a third of the price of Betamax. As a result it was more easily affordable for the masses and people began to sacrifice quality for affordability. The second major advantage of VHS was its recording time. Where Betamax cassettes could record for only an hour, VHS tape could record for two. In 1976, a one hour Betamax cassette was a piece of high end technology that would cost $15 if bought in bulk, while some retail prices could go as high as $30.[2] While attempts were made, by Sony, to create a two hour cassette in response to its competitor, VHS took things one step further by introducing a recorder that allowed up to four hours of taping.[3] By 1988 Sony and the Betamax format had conceded defeat. That may well have been the case in 1976 but by the time we bought our machine in the UK in 1980 you could record three hours of programmes & that was probably the case for all machines by that time. |
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Spotted my mistake.
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Must have been F@ck#d from the sales in the states then, when we got ours it was pretty new in the UK & defo had three hour tapes, I suppose those first few years were key in America & ultimately it was their sales that finished it off.
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first time in a video hire shop the choices came down to Jazz singer (neil diamond) or kramer vs kramer, my sister was with me and it was a family choice? super boring.
Tons of exploitative axe murder films then. Usual cover was a girl with blood coming off her face with a dark figure in the background with an axe. we watched the jazz singer. |
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Had a video shop and then a mobile video van. I think Warner Brothers were charging something like £70 a video for top titles when they came out.
Was always worried about tapes getting chewed up in the machines. |
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there was actually nothing wrong with betamax (for it's time) t'was sppsdly the better format but they were simply bought out - thats the story i got.
personally i think every electroinic device from that long ago was a heap of sh1te - our recorder never got used as it was a days work trying to set it up to record a programme - worse still you sat down to watch Fools and Horses and ended up getting Songs of Praise  and anyone who had a brick cell phone - ..... why ? |
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and cars in the 80s were crap too
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so were things like toasters , fridges ,basically anything that 'worked'
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music was good though
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the old style food mixers - the ones from the 50s and 60s
now they are still going strong today - ;lots of old dears still have them weird world |
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must be a reason for this
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and why are car batteries still massive in 2016 ? - they weight a ton
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i thought in 1990 that by now you would have some sort of micro chip or solar powered battery
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Coachbuster 18 Dec 16 12:04
so were things like toasters , fridges ,basically anything that 'worked' Coach I think your find fridges & washing machines were better built 30 years ago than they are now, washing machines are purposely built not to last, when you think how technology has improved over the last 30 years this must be one of the biggest worldwide cons of our times. |
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pumpy lad
agree that things arent made to last - but back in the day it was an outside bet that your house burnt down if the freezer was over 5 years old  i used to see mums hairdryers explode and catch light while she was using them . recorders used to chew up cassettes , cars frequently wouldn't start on wet or cold mornings - always woken up by that sound  televison screens used to roll - wtf was that about ?  I like stuff today  |
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although they now need to find a cell phone battery that doesn't run flat after 10 hours of non use - the reason why i have 2 and keep one perm on charge
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Our fridge is 25 years old, still works perfectly
The wife is a lot older but is to say she still works perfectly would be optimistic |
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We had the Sony C7 Betamax, bought in '82.
The thing was as heavy as a pile of bricks. Solid full of components and superb quality. The problem was that when it went wrong, it was a fifty quid touch every time, and later when the sound gain failed we just gave up on it, and bought the all singing, all dancing Panasonic vHS which I still have. I sold the C7 early this year, with the problem declared, for £85.00 which wasn't bad really! |
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I was perhaps referring to stuff manufactored in the late 70s Pumpy.
Maybe things improved when we started to import from Japan /Far East ,maybe their standards increased with time.Or there was less to go wrong . UK produced a lot of stuff in the 70s that simply fell apart - hence why we started to buy certain foreign goods (as well as cost) |
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plus technology has improved 2million fold -
chewed up tapes - i mean to say frustrating trying to piece together a cassette with sticky tape  |
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Betamax came before VHS if I remember right. Always seemed way cooler cos we never had one but our neighbours did. Eventually we got a VHS but I remember bunking off school and going round to a mates house to watch all his old man's video nasties on Betamax.
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i bought a V2000 in the early 80s which only taped off the telly which was p1ss p00r planning on my part as there was very little porn on the telly in them days, C4 excepted
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