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2nd Aug 2021, 6:16 am | #1 |
Triode
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
Here is a little booklet I scanned
Looks to be from the early 1980's. I will have to post it one page at a time. Enjoy. Wayne |
2nd Aug 2021, 6:20 am | #2 |
Triode
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Re: Early Video Advertising. Part One
Early Video Advertising. Part Two.
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2nd Aug 2021, 6:26 am | #3 |
Triode
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Re: Early Video Advertising. Part One
Part Three.
We won't worry about the back cover. Very much like the front cover. Brands, models, prices all listed. Australian Dollars. Someone will be able to work out which year by the models and movie releases. Fascinating reading. Wayne |
2nd Aug 2021, 3:39 pm | #4 |
Octode
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Harrow, London, UK.
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Re: Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
A very interesting piece of history. I pity the Geoffrey Button sales staff trying to both sell the features whilst negotiating the price with so many models to choose and with each marketing to the punter how good they were.
Video Choice published a review of VCRs together with video sweeps (some of which had very strange shapes), technical conclusion and a "Which" Best Buy. Only one format came tops and began with the letter B. Sanyo VTC 9300 excepted! It runs to 183 pages so I won't be scanning it just now. Chris |
3rd Aug 2021, 1:12 am | #5 |
Heptode
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Lefkada, Greece
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Re: Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
There's my AKAI VS-5 there!
"Beep beep beep beep BREAKDOWN"! These ads must be from 1981. Fivos |
3rd Aug 2021, 1:36 pm | #6 |
Nonode
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Gloucester, Glos. UK.
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Re: Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
Remember selling those Akai VS5s !! we sold literally 1000s of them!! got one in my workshop ,(faulty!!) and they did go beep beep like a little bell inside.
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4th Aug 2021, 1:33 am | #7 | |
Heptode
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Location: Lefkada, Greece
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Re: Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
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4th Aug 2021, 4:10 am | #8 |
Triode
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Re: Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
I have just one VS-5 in my collection.
Took me years to get it. Unfortunately the back-up battery died years ago and the acid penetrated the circuit board making it leaky. View the pictures to see the damage. Wayne. |
4th Aug 2021, 2:29 pm | #9 |
Heptode
Join Date: Mar 2015
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Re: Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
Damn! These Varta batteries are a big problem on old Macintosh computer motherboards. They really do leak and cause tons of damage on the PCB. Hopefully yours is repairable by cleaning the PCB and placing jumper wires in place of the eaten traces.
Fivos |
4th Aug 2021, 4:31 pm | #10 |
Nonode
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Re: Early Video Recorder Advertising. Part One.
My Akai VS5.
tucked away in the corner of my workshop. Actually had many fond memories of them , they were also very popular in the rental market and we did a lot of advertising in the papers along with its big brother the Akai VS10 . Theres a lot of early advertising material on another forum i use for early video recorders and the VS5 is featured on one of them for sure. Apologies for the poor picture.
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