Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: mars on 25 February 2009, 19:52:55
-
Can any of you remember your first Video recorder. Mine was an ex-rental JVC top loader with cable remote which I paid £300 for in 1984. it lasted me 12 years though! My current VCR was bought from my local Littlewoods clearance store and cost £35 new 2 years ago. ;)
-
Ferguson videostar,front loader with remote lasted about 13 years,and I knew how to work it.
Last one,cant remember what make it was,couldnt understand how it worked,cost about £45 and lasted about 13 months and then fell apart.
-
I remember getting mine for about £100 many moons ago. The choice was a top loading VHS machine or a Grundig 2*4 Super using the V2000 system. I chose the grundig, very good picture and facilities, indeed I still have it tucked away somewhere, the squirrel instinct ;D
Ken
-
Mine and Mr Dusty's was a ex-display model from Boots (I think ).
It cost £150 ,and did not come with a box or instructions.
This was in about 1985,give or take a year. :-* :-* :-* :-*
-
Pah all crap!
My first as in first I bought as opposed to aquired
Sony SL-F1UB Beta portable http://www.palsite.com/slf1ovi.html
Best one I bought all in was in 1989 Sony SLHF950 - best 1/2" VCR ever released for domestic use in the UK http://www.palsite.com/950ovi.html
-
Ferguson videostar VHS top loader with a cable remote , had it for 10 years and gave it to me nan and she had it for 5/6 years,a solid piece of kit unlike some of the dross that's around now
-
Ferguson videostar VHS top loader with a cable remote , had it for 10 years and gave it to me nan and she had it for 5/6 years,a solid piece of kit unlike some of the dross that's around now
The Sanyo VTC-M40 next to the PC is 23 years old, the F1 even nearer the PC is 27 years old.
Both work
The Sanyo had the penultimate head set in the country.
I still use tape for camera - MiniDV but for TV recording I now have 3 PVRs
-
we had a Sanyo Betamax as our first one back in 1984 (or there abouts)
Last one was a Toshiba that was part of a package we bought quite a few years ago ::)
-
we had a Sanyo Betamax as our first one back in 1984 (or there abouts)
Last one was a Toshiba that was part of a package we bought quite a few years ago ::)
Does it still work?
They last forever :o
-
Ferguson videostar 3v36 (don't know how i remembered that!)front loader in early 80's - c450 pounds as they had only just come out. Infra red remote , 2 week timer: it lasted about 15yrs and it used to make alot of noise when rewinding. Otherwise very good reliable mahine
-
cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.
-
cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.
Sounds like a Hitachi or Samsung then - Sony didn't make any Vhs decks - all made for them - genuine Sony are Video 8, Hi 8, DV, Mini DV, and all Beta variants
-
Ex-rental ?????? whatever!
-
Whats a VCR....died about 5 years ago didn't they!
Never really liked the idea of plastic tape being dragged screaming across a rotating drum!
-
Whats a VCR....died about 5 years ago didn't they!
Never really liked the idea of plastic tape being dragged screaming across a rotating drum!
5yrs ago people were using hdd recorders weren't they, before that was dvd recorders, so doubt anyone here has bought a vcr this millenium :-/
Not sure I've regularly used a vcr since I moved in 2001 :-/
-
Whats a VCR....died about 5 years ago didn't they!
Never really liked the idea of plastic tape being dragged screaming across a rotating drum!
Work VERY well in a camera - you produce your archive copy as you go.
-
Digressing ........
We bought one of these (http://www.humaxdigital.com/global/products/product_stb_terrestrial_pvr9300t.asp) a couple of weeks back. We should've bought one ages ago as we'd never got around to be able to record anything on the video when went digital via a set-top box. The Humax couldn't be simpler to record with. :y :y
-
Digressing ........
We bought one of these (http://www.humaxdigital.com/global/products/product_stb_terrestrial_pvr9300t.asp) a couple of weeks back. We should've bought one ages ago as we'd never got around to be able to record anything on the video when went digital via a set-top box. The Humax couldn't be simpler to record with. :y :y
We bought an HDR just before Christmas
-
My 1st VCR was a videostar 3v29 with cable remote. Also still have a JVC Video somewhere and the old Grandstand videos of the lomabard RAC done on the Videostar in the 70's have fantastic picture qualiy.
Am after multiple TV recording options when I move home inclusing one of these.
http://www.humaxdigital.com/global/products/product_stb_satellite_foxsat-hdr.asp
-
cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.
your going back a long way there TB
Doug
-
mine was a Ferguson videostar top loader with piano key buttons
Doug
-
mine was a Ferguson videostar top loader with piano key buttons
Doug
Mine was the model just after with the square push buttons
-
Still got 2 Ferguson videostars in my wardrobe with cable remotes Theres a JVC in there as well, all the old ones from the living room!
Last one I bought was an all singing all dancing Sony one, my dad decided that it'd work better on his tv so he bought a cheap Sony one and swapped it when I was working away thinking I'd never notice!
I dont think I've ever used it since it was swapped.
-
cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.
Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...
Magic or what :D
-
cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.
Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...
Magic or what :D
remember them, probably early/mid 90s?
-
One of my summer jobs when I was at uni (back in the late 80's - early 90's) was developing some kit for the experimental HD-MAC HDTV outside broadcast vans. This was a 1250 line 16:9 TV standard that, IIRC, they used to cover the Olympics in the early 90's but which never took off. Not surprising as the signals used over 30MHz bandwidth IIRC, and, to get a decent picture you needed a CRT about half the size of the average living room. :o
Anyway, the devices they used to record that (uncompressed in analogue, IIRC) were fearsome. 8" diameter head with 2" wide tape IIRC. Made a nasty (expensive) mess when that all went tits up! ;D
Kevin
-
cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.
Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...
Magic or what :D
remember them, probably early/mid 90s?
Nearly right! .... had a look.....coz it was only 6ft away from me....sticky on underneath of it (sony centre) gives a purchase date of 28/08/99.......
-
cant remember first, but last was a rather poor quality sony. and back in the days before sony became gay.
Carnt remember my first......but ive still got, unplugged, upstairs, somewhere, a VHS Sony, that you stuck a magnetic strip to the tape....it used to write to the strip everytime you recorded summat....so that when you picked up the tape again, you could just wave the tape in front of the vcr and it would tell you what was recorded on the tape, to save you having 'load' the tape and find out...
Magic or what :D
remember them, probably early/mid 90s?
Nearly right! .... had a look.....coz it was only 6ft away from me....sticky on underneath of it (sony centre) gives a purchase date of 28/08/99.......
Sony went to the darkside in about 88, but still supplied proper VCRs in the UK to about 93, in US and Japan until 2004