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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
I am ten years younger than greencapt, but I do remember that our family VHS player was a toploader and it came with a remote control that connected to the unit via a wire. It also had an analogue wheel counter and no other display of any kind. It was cool.
We had an old 1980 JVC vcr which was pretty much like this one. It was silver, had two huge separated pieces, one on top of the other, and was also a top-loeader. there was a remote control connected through a wire although we almost never used it, we didn't have any remote controls at all, people back then didn't think it was such a big deal to get up and do things. It could only play 2 hour tapes (SP recording). There was this huge camera which was connected to the top part of the vcr, so if you wanted to use it outside you had to use a bag and carry that heavy piece of the VCR along with a huge battery... The camera did this abrupt noise when cutting scenes...
I think the earliest recording my dad has is the closing cerimony for the 1980 moscow olimpic games, but I haven't seen that tape. I did see the tape with the breaking news about the Falkland wars, it's curious to watch it today.
It eventually broke, it dosen't show colors correctly anymore, although I do belive it still works, my dad has it in a box somewhere. I remember we bought a new VCR in the early 90s and the first movie I watched on it was Tom Hanks movie "Joe Versus the Volcano", around...1991, 1992.