whole house audio / visual advice please

[telectrix]

Tel's got a garage full of old tellies from his Rumbelows days

haha. thereby lies a tale. worked for them 1972/73. morris 1000 van was my company vehicle. 3 tellys in the back and the front wheels were off the road.

 

[Ib≤In≤Iz]

Betamax is as far back as I can remember lol

 

[telectrix]

once had a philips 2000 VCR. them and betamax were stuffed by thorn who made vhs under the brand name ferguson and others. they also owned a large proportion of the retail and rental outlets and so killed off the competition's superior quality machines all for the sake of their corporate profits.

 

[driverman]

Blimey, Thought I was the only one who had a Phillips 2000! You could record on both sides of the tape.

 

[Anthony S]

Blimey, Thought I was the only one who had a Phillips 2000! You could record on both sides of the tape.

They were a pile of sh*t you couldn't get films to watch on them and when the VHS came out they were £500 all those years ago must been 35 years I reckon.

 

[TJ Anderson]

When I was a kid we had VHS but we also still had a Betamax with the remote..... on a lead

 

[driverman]

They were a pile of sh*t you couldn't get films to watch on them and when the VHS came out they were £500 all those years ago must been 35 years I reckon.

I had no probs with it, recorded well and a wide selection of films to hire. Possibly in the 80's. Was bulky compared to todays machines!

 

[Silly Sausage]

haha. thereby lies a tale. worked for them 1972/73. morris 1000 van was my company vehicle. 3 tellys in the back and the front wheels were off the road.

I vaguely remembered you mentioned in the past that you used to fix TVs, Rumbs was just the first place that came to mind!

 

[Anthony S]

I had no probs with it, recorded well and a wide selection of films to hire. Possibly in the 80's. Was bulky compared to todays machines!

35 years was just 1980 I reckon lol was not mine though, the old man bought it with a top of range telly off someone who came down from North with them. The pair were worth about £1,200 all them years ago, he paid about a monkey I think.

 

[Anthony S]

once had a philips 2000 VCR. them and betamax were stuffed by thorn who made vhs under the brand name ferguson and others. they also owned a large proportion of the retail and rental outlets and so killed off the competition's superior quality machines all for the sake of their corporate profits.

All those buildings used to exist in Enfield, Brimsdown all them years ago and I worked in a few doing my time using conduit, trunking, tray, micc, swa etc