In the scene when Carol and Earl go to the electric store to watch that tape the sign on the VCR they use says "Sale VCR cable ready remote control $349.95" and it made me appreciate my DVD player that I used to zoom in on the sign to read it better.
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I can remember being a young newlywed in the early `80`s. My husband and I spent around $450.00 for our first VCR at Sears. It was the most exciting thing. We could actually watch the kind of movies we wanted, WHEN we wanted, and in our own living room! It was amazing. We had movie partys all the time too.
It was kind of like the `50`s...early `60`s, when the first people in our neighborhood got a TV. Everyone went over to see it!
I remember when I was about 10 (in 1980) my parents splurged and bought a VCR. I think they paid around $1200 for it. It was a top loader, no remote and MANUAL tracking! I remember being so excited to finally watch movies at home, and when the movie was over the VCR took about 10 minutes rewinding the tape. The video store would charge you if you didn't rewind the tapes. lol
shareWhen they came out with the stand-alone reminder, it seemed like a great invention at the time.
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I'm just expressing my opinion.
You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas.
We had one that my granddad gave us.
And the GOOD NEWS is, if you HAD one of those top-of-the-line top-loaders, it had a remote?
The BAD NEWS?
The remote was WIRED to the VCR.
But we thought it was soooo cool!!!
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Aagh; you're a HEDGE!
@MSStMarie A wired remote - doesn't that defeat the purpose? You still have to get off your ass to change the channel, lol. Either that or you'd need a long enough wire that you'd be tripping over it every second day. Home tech has come a long way.
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shareStep-dad paid $1000 for his top-loader in 1980. Used to love hearing the gears grind and the CLICK of the recording mechanism in the living room in the middle of the night. Always brought a smile knowing a new movie was being taped for the next day :).
shareWe got our first one when I was a kid, I can remember the whole betamax thing. The VHS we got was like $800 and that was 1978 dollars.
what are they now like 2 cent at the flea marketNo, for a good one, $50 to $200 at online auctions. I recently upgraded mine to a nicer Samsung unit, $60 and it's like new with remote. Sometimes I find a movie that is only on VHS so I convert it to DVD. I have a Laserdisc player too, I own 1 Laserdisc; LOL. The Samsung Laserdisc was $100 but I was out-bid on one that went for $150 and it was the same model.
I was also a part of that 1978/$800 club when I was in Alaska, the home of "not current in this time zone" recording. It's even too big and bulky to be a doorstop; I need to get rid of it.
Why ain't you at the garden party you heathen?
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My parents got a VCR on their wedding from my aunt, and it costed her almost as the stove they got from my other aunt, about 900 Dm (Deutch Mark). I have no idea how much is that today...
I was going to say my Dad bought a RCA I belive in 1979 top loader VCR and cost like 900$ which was out of his price range for him back then, for me now and most normal people but people really wanted them.
It was state of the art. It had a microphone jack you could dub in your own audio while recording something, had bright lights on top and most of all it came with a remote control. The remote had a wire from it (this was before infered) to the VCR and all it did was pause and unpause it. I remember using this for my Dad and his friend for the 1980 Superbowl. It also had a felt cover for it, and was huge. It was taller then most stereo receivers!
I was seven when this movie came out. But I remember in the early to mid 80's, there was something before VHS (I'm not thinking Beta either). It was like a huge retangular disc type thing. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I remember watching Terminator, Romancing the Stone, and Tarzan on that when I was little.So I'm thinking this was '85-'85.
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Got my top loader VCR back in 1980 and bought it on sale for $660. 4 hour blank tapes were $30 and a first run movie cost $79 outright. And lets not forget about the "portable" cellphone that the cop had. Now all that equipment can be put in the palm of your hand.
At least it came with a remote!
Yeah, I saw that scene last night and told my 16 year old son about the top-loading model we got around 1981 for about a thousand. Blank tapes were around $30.00 and new movies ran close to $70.00. Personally, I would have preferred a VideoDisc player, but you couldn't record anything and you had to turn the thing over mid-movie.
I still have a VCR in my bedroom for when I want to watch stuff like Spinal Tap or Trilogy of Terror.
You're thinking about laserdisc. It came out in 1978. It was a precursor to cd and dvd technology. The advantage was incredible clarity over videotape. The disadvantage was 60 mins per side. So you had to flip the disk in the middle of the movie or put in a second disk if the film went over 120 minutes.
They were also very expensive.
The disks, obviously, were round not square and 12" diameter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc
I remember my dad having a VCR in 1973. He was in the USCG and worked at night as an EMT. This huge VCR was only available through the government and the only tapes he watched were of bloody crashes and rescue missions!
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