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Post by mattchurchett on Jan 4, 2022 20:15:11 GMT
Just a bit of fun here guys.
I guess most of us have or have had at one time a large home video collection. But what are our oldest home video recordings? It's nice to see the TV presentation/idents or even snippets of news or a closedown after a film from days gone by.
Here's mine.
VHS - Rock Goes To College 28/9/78 (I've got most of RGTC recorded on VHS at the time of the original broadcast)
Beta - Old Grey Whistle Test 31/12/78
V2000 - Get It Together 1/9/81
Can you tell I'm a fan of music? Haha!
Has anyone got any recordings older than these?
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Post by rebeccajansen on Jan 11, 2022 20:37:43 GMT
We did get to borrow a school's huge and heavy machine over a holiday in the late '70s/early '80s one time, but maybe nobody could figure it out enough to do more than to play some rented pre-recorded commercial tapes? I'd have probably recorded Battlestar Galactica if we'd had a blank tape, although why would we... not when we didn't have a player to play anything back on? VCRs were pretty expenisive items at that time.
I only have a lot of mid' 80s stuff which is about when we got our first recorder. Short bits of text channels for posterity, brief bits of sports, some movies taped will have short news updates one station used to run. I strictly recorded old shows and films to keep, anything new I tended to record over. There was some breaking news on Diana's Paris crash as I had something set to tape that was not on after all, but I recorded over all that. It's people who mad recorders in the '70s that got all the really interesting stuff I think, including more B&W reruns which were quite rare by the '80s, especially of old cartoons. When I traded by mail in the '80s I got many tapes of vintage shows aired on the Los Angeles station KCOP. When I was there in the late '70s I remember it was the station I watched the most.
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Post by paul carney on Jan 17, 2022 10:21:26 GMT
Italy v Bazil 1982 World Cup
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Post by markjhaley on Jan 17, 2022 11:27:03 GMT
The first thing my Dad recorded was the Ali-Foreman fight October 30th, 1974 which I recall was broadcast the next day by the BBC.
My brother and myself happily recorded Top Of The Pops and 45 over and over on the same 2 Phillips cassettes unaware that the BBC and ITV weren't keeping copies themselves.
Of course I've kicked myself over and over ever since but the cassettes at the time were £12 for half an hour and £18 for an hour. A considerable amount of money in the 1970's
The last TOTP I kept was Mike Read's first go at presenting late 1978. I also had a Pop At The Mill broadcast which had the Rubettes and Helen Shapiro on which I understand still exists in archive somewhere.
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Post by Kev Hunter on Jan 18, 2022 9:19:52 GMT
I bought my first video recorder (a Blaupunkt top-loading model with a 'remote control' on a lead!) just before Christmas 1982, and one of the earliest things I kept on tape was C4's "The Snowman" as it had an introduction by David Bowie. My reasoning being that I thought it would be a really nice thing to dig out on subsequent Christmases, little knowing at the time that it would become a permanent part of festive telly.
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Post by Richard Marple on Jan 18, 2022 22:16:29 GMT
I bought my first video recorder (a Blaupunkt top-loading model with a 'remote control' on a lead!) just before Christmas 1982, and one of the earliest things I kept on tape was C4's "The Snowman" as it had an introduction by David Bowie. My reasoning being that I thought it would be a really nice thing to dig out on subsequent Christmases, little knowing at the time that it would become a permanent part of festive telly. I remember one of my cousins getting the video of The Snowman in 1986, at the time it hadn't quite become a must watch event. |
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Post by Jeff Leach on Jan 19, 2022 3:47:07 GMT
December 1980 - Not the nine O'clock News, bits of Top of the pops and Cannon and ball show on a Granada 180 tape - Still plays ok !
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Post by Ronnie McDevitt on Jan 19, 2022 15:37:29 GMT
Like a couple on here in a few months time it will be the fortieth anniversary of my first home video recording.
The VCR was a Ferguson 3V29 VHS which served me well for many a year.
At the time I worked in a large warehouse environment where there were a number of employees who had been around six months or so ahead of me with a bit of tape swapping going on. That said there were plenty others who did not purchase or rent a VCR until after me so I always consider 1981-82 as the start of widespread VCR ownership.
One memory I do have was at the very end of 1979 when a friend of mine told me he knew of someone who worked in a large electrical store who was taking orders for `one of those machines that could tape from the telly' at £100 a pop with no questions asked. There was apparently a waiting list.
Impossible to say what my first recording was as it would have been a test and taped over soon after.
Travelled to London for my first FA Cup Final that year so had a recording of the Scottish Cup Final made. This was taped over but a portion of the post match analysis survives at the the end of another recording if only because the game went to extra time.
Still have the ITV highlights of the Wembley match from the following day (How the Cup Was Drawn).
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Post by markboulton on Feb 5, 2022 23:29:34 GMT
I bought my first video recorder (a Blaupunkt top-loading model with a 'remote control' on a lead!) just before Christmas 1982, and one of the earliest things I kept on tape was C4's "The Snowman" as it had an introduction by David Bowie. My reasoning being that I thought it would be a really nice thing to dig out on subsequent Christmases, little knowing at the time that it would become a permanent part of festive telly. I remember one of my cousins getting the video of The Snowman in 1986, at the time it hadn't quite become a must watch event. I have The Snowman on CD-Video (which is really just an orange-tinted Laserdisc)! |
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Post by Richard Marple on Feb 6, 2022 12:48:36 GMT
I remember one of my cousins getting the video of The Snowman in 1986, at the time it hadn't quite become a must watch event. I have The Snowman on CD-Video (which is really just an orange-tinted Laserdisc)! It's a little confusing as there were 2 CD-Video formats, one being an analogue one which was like a small Laserdisc, and a digital one (Video-CD?), which could hold about 2 hours of VHS quality picture. |
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Post by maxstenner on Feb 6, 2022 17:47:37 GMT
TV: I’m a lot younger than a lot of people here and never experienced VHS or other video format recording
Radio: Not a recording, but I own a couple of late 20s BBC radio broadcasts on 78 rpm record
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Post by markboulton on Feb 6, 2022 19:32:51 GMT
I have The Snowman on CD-Video (which is really just an orange-tinted Laserdisc)! It's a little confusing as there were 2 CD-Video formats, one being an analogue one which was like a small Laserdisc, and a digital one (Video-CD?), which could hold about 2 hours of VHS quality picture. It's more confusing than that. Video CD was indeed MPEG1 digital video files on a CD and the quality was pretty dreadful. CD Video actually had two variants. The first was a 5" CD which was a combination of CD Audio and a short Laserdisc-format video portion. The audio section can be played on any CD player. The second variant were just straight Laserdisc in all but name and colour. These came in either 8" or 12" diameters. The "The Snowman" disc I refer to is a 12" and hence is technically just a Laserdisc but at the time digital audio was not a standard part of the Laserdisc specification and was at that point exclusive to discs branded as CD Video. |
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Post by Richard Marple on Feb 6, 2022 21:48:16 GMT
It's a little confusing as there were 2 CD-Video formats, one being an analogue one which was like a small Laserdisc, and a digital one (Video-CD?), which could hold about 2 hours of VHS quality picture. It's more confusing than that. Video CD was indeed MPEG1 digital video files on a CD and the quality was pretty dreadful. CD Video actually had two variants. The first was a 5" CD which was a combination of CD Audio and a short Laserdisc-format video portion. The audio section can be played on any CD player. The second variant were just straight Laserdisc in all but name and colour. These came in either 8" or 12" diameters. The "The Snowman" disc I refer to is a 12" and hence is technically just a Laserdisc but at the time digital audio was not a standard part of the Laserdisc specification and was at that point exclusive to discs branded as CD Video. OK I see, it's a little more complicated than I thought. |
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Post by RWels on Feb 7, 2022 16:15:09 GMT
Video-CD (version 2 was mpg2 quality and therefore in theory identical to DVD) was really something completely different, not to be confused with any laserdisc family member.
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Post by Gary Sayers on Feb 7, 2022 21:55:29 GMT
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