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When did you or family did your first Color TV, VCR, DVD player, etc?

mgpt6 said:
1st color tv 1973 used 19inch RCA "hotel" 19inch set for $200.
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We had a couple of these "hotel" sets over the years. My uncle was the
Director of Maintenance for a very large hotel. He would get his hands on a couple
whenever they did a remodel or switched them out.

My dad liked them because they had an internal volume limiter which he could
set to keep us kids from cranking it too high and waking him up.
 
1st Color TV-1960s? Don't know the model.
1st VCR-1987, an RCA VR250. Ran until 2002 when a tape got stuck and broke. Then had a Sylvania that ran for about 6 or 7 years.
1st DVD player, around 2003, a crappy Advent. Then got a Sony DVD/VCR in 2008 and it works better.

-crainbebo
 
My family had color in the late 1970s....along with an Atari to boot in the late 1970s and a Fairchild Channel F System. However, I was 12 when I got my first color TV....a Sony Triniton unit that was handed down from my dad. The thing lasted for years until the VHF tuner knob broke on it and wouldn't change channels anymore. I was able to get onto Channel 3 and hooked up a cable ready VCR to the connector ends and it lasted for about three more years.

Our first VCR was a top loading Curtis Mathes VHS VCR around early-to-mid 1982. Somewhere in my parents home are boxes of old tapes featuring OTA recordings of NBC programming from 1982-83 off of KXAS in Dallas. Even they have no idea where they are. The Curtis Mathes even outlasted an Emerson purchased in 1985, and died sometime in 1992-93 or so, replaced by a Realistic VHS VCR.

I got my personal Video cassette player in 1994. It died after a year.

First DVD Player, a GE DVD player that was bought as a display unit in 2000 along with a copy of Spaceballs and Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan
 
stdjsb25 said:
First DVD Player, a GE DVD player that was bought as a display unit in 2000 along with a copy of Spaceballs and Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan
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That reminds me that the first DVD I bought after my wife gave me a player as a Christmas present in 2000 was Spaceballs.

May The Schwartz be with you!!! :D
 
crainbebo said:
1st Color TV-1960s? Don't know the model.
1st VCR-1987, an RCA VR250. Ran until 2002 when a tape got stuck and broke. Then had a Sylvania that ran for about 6 or 7 years.
1st DVD player, around 2003, a crappy Advent. Then got a Sony DVD/VCR in 2008 and it works better.

-crainbebo
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Forgot to say that I still have two VCRs-a Sony DVD/VCR bought in 2008, and a Panasonic PV9662 bought from Goodwill Industries because the Sony had problems with the tapes. Works way better now (the Sony). The Panasonic is also very good with VHS tapes.

I also have two DVD players - the Sony, and a Toshiba bought around 2009/10.

-crainbebo
 
We bought our very first satellite all the way back in the summer of 1985.....a nice little Birdview C-Band satellite system. This was before Videocipher was implemented to make the skies go dark. The Birdview receiver and dish electronics were replaced with a new model in 86, and then finally replaced in full by a Houston Tracker IRD system in 1988. We put that thing to good use over the years. It underwent many repairs over the years due to lightning storms that fried the receiver.

The tracker finally started showing its age and in 94, the dish's metal pole rusted to the point to where a windstorm tipped the dish over one night. We were without a satellite for almost two years until my dad decided that OTA TV was not enough. He finally got out there, replaced the pole and put the dish back up, along with replacing the rotor motor in the dish. It lasted until 2002 when lightning struck it and my dad was finally advised that it would cost more than the receiver was worth to get it repaired and he was convinced to switch to Dish Network. The house has been a dish house ever since.

When I moved into my current home, I got dish network as well, but was displeased with the service and switched to DirecTV.
 
1st Color TV - September 1984

1st VCR - September 1994, a Magnovox

1st DVD player - sometime in 2003 I think.

I'm usually about 10-15 years behind the fad.
 
stdjsb25 said:
We bought our very first satellite all the way back in the summer of 1985.....a nice little Birdview C-Band satellite system. This was before Videocipher was implemented to make the skies go dark. The Birdview receiver and dish electronics were replaced with a new model in 86, and then finally replaced in full by a Houston Tracker IRD system in 1988. We put that thing to good use over the years.
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Did you watch lots of wild feeds with that dish? You could watch syndicated shows DAYS in advance due to wild feeds on certain satellites.

-crainbebo
 
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