First VCR you remember

  • LOL785
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    • 2 years 5 months ago
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    		 What was the first VCR you remember your family having?
    For me, it would be a Sony Betamax and a JVC VHS player. Not much else to say :roll:
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  • Mezase Master
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    		 It was a VCR. I have no idea who made it or what model it was because I was a fucking kid and only used it to watch and record tapes.
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  • Deleted
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    		 An old toploader from the late 70's.
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  • bassman21
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    		 An Emerson 4 head VCR. We got it in 1985 and had it until we bought a Magnavox stereo VCR in 1993. My parents were afraid I was going to break it, but in no time I was showing them how to operate it. I used to record stuff on it all the time. Our first rental was Ghostbusters.
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  • elron
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    		 I remember my dad renting a top loader vcr from my hometown Radio Shack along with the movie Revenge of the Ninja back in 1983 when I was in the second grade.
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  • One Louder
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    		 Two Betamax's back to back. Both were the slc30 model, one was silver the other was black. Then we went through a few different 4-head VHS players, I think one was Emerson, one was JVC and one was Hitachi.
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  • stake n sheak
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    • 1 year 9 months ago
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    		 I t was a Fisher and I spent like four hours last week trying to find a picture of it on the internet, or at least the model number- for an article I'm writing and I never could find it. bleh.
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  • pepsiru1es92
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    		 We went through many, but the oldest was from the 80s which we used as a backup because it was functional, but had some kind of minor problem. The first one I remember was a Sharp, then a JVC, followed by a Mitsubishi, then our current Sylvania VCR/DVD Player which doesn't see much use these days.

    My grandparents had this big 2 deck copy capable "Go Video" machine. It still works okay, and is is the basement hooked up to our old TV.

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  • AtlantaCommercials
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    • 1 year 8 months ago
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    		 -I don't really remember my first VCR because I was so young.I can only remember that it has wooden paneling,made sometime during the 80s/70s.

    -My second VCR was a Mitsubishi HS-G21 bought sometime in 1999 after my first VCR finally broke after eating up a rental tape.The Mitsubishi is now downstairs still playing.

    -My newest player is a Magnavox VCR/DVD Recorder that I use to converting my tapes into DVD-Rs.
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  • milatchi
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    • 1 year 6 months ago
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    LOL785 wrote:
    What was the first VCR you remember your family having?

    1983 or '84 Quasar brand two-piece VHS toploader. My dad bought it a little after I was born so he could capture the cherished moments of his young son: me. :)
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  • Drahken
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    • 8 months 24 days ago
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    		 I don't remember brands or anything. It was a VHS (I've never seen an actual betamax player nor tape), front loading, and had this weird system where you had to pre-tune channels via little plastic screws. You had something like 8 or 12 slots, and if you had more stations than that which you might want to record off of, then you would have to manually replace one with a new one. Then to record something you would choose the slot you wanted as opposed to tuning in a specific station.

    My own first VCR was a secondhand throwaway when I was about 14 or so. A friend of a friend was throwing it away because they couldn't get it to work anymore. I opened it up & removed some crud (such as a hairpin), and it worked fine. It's tuner was a bit borked though, so even though I was hooked up to cable & got theoretically perfect reception, watching anything through the VCRs tuner was like watching it via a cheap antenna. Still, it was my own VCR, which I could record anything on, at any time. It was a silver top loading model.
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