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Rob Moss
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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #15 on Jul 3, 2012, 12:33pm »

Jul 3, 2012, 11:31am, richardmarple wrote:

The only DW Laserdiscs I can remember being released were just a few years before DVD was launched.

Laserdiscs were around for many years before Dr Who made it to that format.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #16 on Jul 3, 2012, 1:48pm »

Jul 3, 2012, 11:31am, richardmarple wrote:

The only DW Laserdiscs I can remember being released were just a few years before DVD was launched.

Jul 3, 2012, 12:33pm, Rob Moss wrote:

Laserdiscs were around for many years before Dr Who made it to that format.

Revenge of the Cybermen and The Brain of Morbius were released on PAL LD in 1984, and the US saw NTSC releases of The Five Doctors and the edited Day of the Daleks in the late eighties/early nineties: the TVM was released in Hong Kong (with burned in subtitles), and finally unedited PAL versions of Day of the Daleks, The Ark in Space and Terror of the Zygons were, as you remark, brought out just as the first generation DVD players were hitting the shops.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #17 on Jul 3, 2012, 5:12pm »

I hadn't realised Revenge of the Cybermen and The Brain of Morbius had come out on Laserdisc, I can't remember them being mentioned in the guidebooks.

I've still got somewhere the DWM with reviews of the Day of the Daleks & The Ark in Space releases.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #18 on Jul 4, 2012, 1:08am »

Jul 3, 2012, 5:12pm, richardmarple wrote:

I hadn't realised Revenge of the Cybermen and The Brain of Morbius had come out on Laserdisc, I can't remember them being mentioned in the guidebooks.

A fair number were sold, judging by their occasional appearances on the 'Bay: they certainly turn up more frequently than the Beta versions of the same releases. Now the V2000 release of Revenge of the Cybermen - that makes rocking-horse droppings look commonplace!

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #19 on Jul 4, 2012, 11:35am »

I knew a few earlier BBC videos had come out on Betamax, but didn't realise any were released on V2000.

I don't many other distributors released much V2000.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #20 on Jul 4, 2012, 2:04pm »

Jul 4, 2012, 11:35am, richardmarple wrote:

I knew a few earlier BBC videos had come out on Betamax, but didn't realise any were released on V2000.

I don't many other distributors released much V2000.

The lone V2000 release was Revenge of the Cybermen: for a long time I doubted its existence, but finally found somebody who had one (but won't part with it). The Beta releases were Revenge of the Cybermen, The Brain of Morbius, The Seeds of Death, The Five Doctors, Robots of Death, Day of the Daleks, Dr Who and the Daleks and Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150AD. There's also anecdotal evidence that the Australian releases of The Talons of Weng Chiang and Terror of the Zygons (which were about a year before the UK releases) were offered in Beta.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #21 on Jul 4, 2012, 11:53pm »

I have got the Australian version of Pyramids of Mars, but not Terror of the Zygons (well not the '85 edition anyway) I also have The Five Doctors from '85 also!! Was this one available down here before anywhere else too? It has the same lack of "proper" BBC logo etc. The cat no. On the spine of POM is (BBC) 2014 and TFD is 2020.... As for the earliest VCR, mine was an old "top loader" that was old when I procured it in the mid 90's (I'm only in my early 30's now) it was a Philips that had manual tracking and Stereo audio outputs and inputs!!! I used to overdub "cleaner" versions of songs to the relevant videoclips... Ah memories!!! It also had level controls for Blue/red/green.. I think it dated from the late seventies and apparently cost a small fortune when it was new!!! I wore it out completely.....

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #22 on Jul 5, 2012, 6:48am »

Here in Pennsylvania, the first VCR we bought was in late November 1978. It was a RCA SelectaVision.

Tapes were expensive, but we did record all of the Pittsburgh Steelers playoffs and Super Bowl games from that winter.

Those tapes still look amazing...at least the last time I tried them.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #23 on Jul 5, 2012, 8:08am »

Australia saw the first releases of The Talons of Weng Chiang, Terror of the Zygons, The Time Warrior and The Ark in Space (as Ark in Space): they had different covers to the UK releases (and, unlike the Brit versions, gave cover credits to Lis Sladen, Nic Courtney and Ian Marter on the latter two titles). The first two titles came out a good year before they became available in the UK, and were imported at a hefty mark-up by dealers (I think I paid £30 for my copy of Talons).

The US saw only one release before the UK: a compilation version of The Deadly Assassin in 1989. Since NTSC playback was a very rare feature of PAL VCR's at the the time, the import trade wasn't quite as lucrative!

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #24 on Jul 5, 2012, 8:58pm »

I also remember taping Peter Davison's first season after The Five Faces of Doctor Who season.I remember watching Castrovalva and Kinda over and over again as well as Earthshock which were just tremendous!I also remember my father watching a playback of Castrovalva and being very happy with his financial outlay and congratulating me on my good choice in viewing!I also taped the DR WHO feature on DID YOU SEE...? when it was originally aired in 1982 I think.This was marvellous because it had so many quickfire clips of old DR WHO episodes.That was another broadcast that I watched over and over again.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #25 on Jul 6, 2012, 6:47am »

A Betamax in the Winter of 1983

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #26 on Jul 7, 2012, 8:24pm »

Mine was an RCA but I was a late bloomer. I did not get it until 1987 even though by then VCR's were becoming regular household items.

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #27 on Jul 22, 2012, 7:14pm »

As the last family west of the Iron Curtain we got a video player in 1987. It was a shiny black Philips VHS player, but I have no idea which model. I still have some television recordings from around that time, mostly films with presenters before and after.

And, now, 25 years later, I have just ordered a new VHS player. I lost the last one in a move some years back, and while sorting through some old stuff I found some old cassettes and got a real nostalgia rush. It took some looking, but eventually I found a Scandinavian on-line electronics store that still had a video player in its inventory, so soon I will be the proud owner of a brand new Funai D50Y-100M. I can't wait!

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #28 on Aug 13, 2012, 10:01pm »

I remember the Ferguson Videostar - great machine, very reliable. The first one I actually bought myself was a Sanyo Betamax, somewhere around the 90s. It was already very second hand but worked great. Somewhere I've still got a collection of Ren & Stimpy off the TV on Betamax. Sadly the player no longer works, which is annoying because I've since acquired a load of old tapes and no idea what is on them (of course, if they're late enough to have been water rather than whale oil based they're probably past it already - the copy of "One Is A Lonely Number" I got with the machine was almost unplayable even then, while the "Forbidden Planet" was shiny, new and fantastic quality)

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Re: The first video-recorder you ever bought.
« Reply #29 on Aug 13, 2012, 10:08pm »

Above (zippy72) was me - registered under the same name I use most other places. Have deleted that account now in accordance with the real name policy (which I failed to notice before). Apologies for the rogue post.

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