WELL I NEVER.
Were VHS £100 back in the 80s? Page 2
I bet Zoo's mum is a top bird.
Quote: Oldrocker @ September 13 2013, 12:13 AM BSTAnd Laser Discs. They never caught on. But you could rent them.
They came much later.
Although Zombie Flesh Eaters was banned and there was no facebook or mobile phones or internet life was much better.
Music was great, people were nice to one and other and my then girlfriend used to turn up in stockings and suspenders without me even asking.
Now I have to shout at her to get her to put on a dress. Sic transit etc..
If Peter Kay was a thread...
Yes, believe it or not, in the '80s videotapes could cost up to £100.
I remember seeing a copy of "Robocop" not too long after it had been at the cinema for about that sort of price, you could sometimes buy the rental copies for the latest films from the rental shops and they were hideously expensive.
Yes that's what I meant movies not blank tapes you donuts.
Ah it's a David Smith thread
The BCG equivalent of an Alan Smithee movie.
I bought a Sony C7 video recorder for about £600. A fortune when the average wage was about £100 or less per week.
I also bought a Grundig 2000 video recorder. Probably the best system of the lot as you could turn the tapes over and record on both sides. But it came too late and never caught on.
The last 'new' VHS tape I bought was in 2004.
I do miss the days of browsing the local video rental shop, looking at all the crazy covers, especially the ones from those B-movies. But it was all very reminiscent of this...
I think we've rather lost the "video night event"
I remember in one flat share I was the only person who was brave enough to chase a wasp out. So I got to choose what we watched on video.
I declared it a Queen Evening, so it was Highlander, followed by Flash Gordon and something else.
I was happy and my flat mates lost their fear of wasps.
I have a Panasonic Super-vhs recorder/player with lots of editing capabilities, which I really need to see if I can get it serviced so that I can transcribe some master tapes that I made. The higher resolution tapes won't play on an ordinary VHS player.
I seem to remember it cost me a LOT of money, but was a business expense as I used it to make tutorial videos for my software.
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PS does anyone want a whole load of VHS tapes sold as blanks, but which just happen to have a lot of off-air recordings of sitcoms of the 1990s.. Mostly SelectTV sitcoms like Birds of a Feather, Love Hurts etc. Dunno what else might have been recorded and they are too long (typically 6 hours) to play them through to find out..
There's probably 20 to 30 tapes.
I've got loads of them too. Need to watch them and chuck them. My OCDness wouldn't let me get rid of them without checking them first.
I might whisk a VERY BIG MAGNET over them before disposal..
Lolll. I didn't mean I'd recorded anything dodgy on them.
Well, aside from about 15 different versions of Charles and Eddie singing Would I Lie To You.