The dives into the electronics you grew up with are fun to watch. I had a similar obsession with the stuff we had, as well what friends and family had. Also love the 70s news funk at the beginning
The Home Alone VCR was an Emerson model VCR875, which was identical to the 755 just with on-screen programming (and a green programming button instead of red).
In the scene where the cut out of Michel Jordan is moving on the train you can see a black 1987 Emerson ctr949 dual cassette boombox behind Kevin.Playing rockin' around the xmas tree I assume.
I have my parents old console tv in my basement. It’s a 27” LXI from Sears. Its the same tv that Hurley in tv show LOST won the lottery on. Still works with original remote.
I remember a lot of the stuff you talk about, I'm also 40 it was an interesting time frame to grow up in back in the '80s and '90s. Lot of remnants from the '70s and a lot of technology changes over the past few decades after. It's like we're caught somewhere in the middle.
My first color TV was a 19" 1987 Sears SR series(with rotary knobs) My first VCR was a 1987 Panasonic Omnivision Tech 4.. The TV bit the dust, but I still have that VCR and it still works.
That's awesome you still have much of your childhood items! Quite a bit of my items mysteriously disappeared while at school, over the years. Thanks to ebay, I've gotten back many long lost items. I hope you can find the exact Zenith, and Sears sets from your childhood someday. I was also 8, when I got my first tv, the 1976 Panasonic CT-216A. Still working, but would benefit from a recap to be back to 100%
I can tell its a Sanyo set because it looks a bit like the Fisher TV that my parents bought in the summer of 1992. There is a Fisher branded variant of your TV as well, model PC-9220. Ours was a 20-inch stereo unit made in October 1991. It was a really nice looking unit too. I wish I still knew the model number! It came out right before the "biscuit" era, as it had rounded edges and the front panel was also a bit rounded but it was still overall proper box shaped. It had a unique start up sound and shutoff as well.
Cool. I have the same TV sitting in my shed. Sadly it has a crack on the top of the back housing, but it doesn't affect it in any way. I think the CRT is slightly on the weak side, but I haven't really tested it other than a 5 minute run when I first got it. Also have the original remote and a SAMS photofact for it. supposedly the original owner of it and a Zenith set I bought was a TV repairman EDIT: I take that back, It is ALMOST the exact same TV, I think the bezel around the screen is silver on mine.
I've always liked those side loading VCR's. Especially in black with gold writing and the angled buttons. It just looks more visually pleasing than the centre loading and rounded buttons. I don't know what it is but the older ones were just more stylish. It's quite odd how you've kept everything you've owned since your childhood. I wish I could have done that. Now I'm obsessed with collecting what I once had or wanted, it isn't cheap nor easy to do. You could be waiting years or even decades just to find that one piece you want. It can be quite frustrating at times. Hey Spat. Do you have a Laserdisc machine?
Ahh the original home alone VHS with the Pepsi commercial! Spats was that Pepsi commercial running regularly on TV then? I was waaay too young back then to recall.
One thing I always found interesting about American cable in the analog days was the cable ready channel line up was often different from the cable box lineup. That’s because starting in the late 1980s many of the addressable cable boxes allowed the cable system to map any frequency to any channel number. In Canada our cable systems had the exact same cable boxes but there was never a difference between cable ready and the cable box. Canadian systems also tended to put premium channels after basic cable/extended cable channels. In the 1990s that was often approx. channels 35 and up (varied by cable/city). By 1997 it was channels 60 and up.
My first TV was a Samsung 14" TV/VCR combo that my parents bought after we moved in 1996. It was white and I remember a few of my friends thought it was a computer. Samsung must not have had a great reputation back then, because my parents said that they were advised not to buy that brand. But it worked perfectly for around 15 years before I gave it to somebody who just needed any TV, which I regret doing. I don't know how common they are, but I don't recall ever seeing another one.
I have to laugh because what you think is vintage, to me is still new. My oldest tv is my uncle's 1948 fadea tv and his mother 1948 GE. Still working very well. Wouldn't mind having my first TV set my first console was a quasar color TV 20 inch screen and a quasar top loader VCR. Just last year I sold my zenith system 3 console TV set. In the 90s I spent oh I say about $1,500 for that set it was still working when I sold it. Some person I met at a car show got on subject of TVs. He was bragging about an old zenith system 3 TV set and wanted to try to find one and I said hey man this is your lucky day! Not only was it right year model the poor man nearly broke down and cried his mother had one. Not only that he seen my 1964 Magnavox stereo system console model . He told me he used to work at Magnavox in fort Wayne Indiana and he's probably one of the guys that built the thing! So I let have stuff. I told him I'm always finding this stuff so I'm not losing anything. So sorry for being smart at beginning of my story we all have are favorite things to collect from our childhood. I was glad to this person out with his. Maybe I might find what you're looking for but don't hold me to it. Because units like that don't really catch my eye only if someone is looking for it. Very interesting video liked it!
I have both Home Alone and Home Alone 2 factory/Not home recorded, on Beta... I also have 007 that was released in 1996 on a factory recorded Beta movie..
What better way to wrap up a Friday than with a new video from Spats Bear…
The dives into the electronics you grew up with are fun to watch. I had a similar obsession with the stuff we had, as well what friends and family had.
Also love the 70s news funk at the beginning
That Emerson VCR in Home Alone kinda reminds me of the model VCR755 that I grew up with….
The Home Alone VCR was an Emerson model VCR875, which was identical to the 755 just with on-screen programming (and a green programming button instead of red).
I remember when I watched Talespin in 1992 on our old console TV, I'm the same age as you. These old TV's take ya back to the good ol' days
Oh snap, you got Animaniacs! I still have VHS recordings of that when I was 14! That was my favorite cartoon back then
Haha, the McCallister family was rich back then, they had some good electronics in that house, The wet bandits couldn't wait to get in there.
In the scene where the cut out of Michel Jordan is moving on the train you can see a black 1987 Emerson ctr949 dual cassette boombox behind Kevin.Playing rockin' around the xmas tree I assume.
I have my parents old console tv in my basement. It’s a 27” LXI from Sears. Its the same tv that Hurley in tv show LOST won the lottery on. Still works with original remote.
Got a 1982 RCA Colortrak 2000 I use as my movie tv. It would be pretty hard for me to part with it out all the tv's I own.
I remember a lot of the stuff you talk about, I'm also 40 it was an interesting time frame to grow up in back in the '80s and '90s. Lot of remnants from the '70s and a lot of technology changes over the past few decades after. It's like we're caught somewhere in the middle.
My first color TV was a 19" 1987 Sears SR series(with rotary knobs) My first VCR was a 1987 Panasonic Omnivision Tech 4.. The TV bit the dust, but I still have that VCR and it still works.
I have that exact VHS tape love watching it at Christmas time
That's awesome you still have much of your childhood items! Quite a bit of my items mysteriously disappeared while at school, over the years. Thanks to ebay, I've gotten back many long lost items.
I hope you can find the exact Zenith, and Sears sets from your childhood someday.
I was also 8, when I got my first tv, the 1976 Panasonic CT-216A. Still working, but would benefit from a recap to be back to 100%
Hey a new video from Spats! DiC Do it Cheep
I can tell its a Sanyo set because it looks a bit like the Fisher TV that my parents bought in the summer of 1992. There is a Fisher branded variant of your TV as well, model PC-9220. Ours was a 20-inch stereo unit made in October 1991. It was a really nice looking unit too. I wish I still knew the model number! It came out right before the "biscuit" era, as it had rounded edges and the front panel was also a bit rounded but it was still overall proper box shaped. It had a unique start up sound and shutoff as well.
Cool. I have the same TV sitting in my shed. Sadly it has a crack on the top of the back housing, but it doesn't affect it in any way. I think the CRT is slightly on the weak side, but I haven't really tested it other than a 5 minute run when I first got it. Also have the original remote and a SAMS photofact for it. supposedly the original owner of it and a Zenith set I bought was a TV repairman
EDIT: I take that back, It is ALMOST the exact same TV, I think the bezel around the screen is silver on mine.
Back in 1998 or 99, I started calling a modern TV a “bug TV” due to it’s curvyness. Lol
I've always liked those side loading VCR's. Especially in black with gold writing and the angled buttons. It just looks more visually pleasing than the centre loading and rounded buttons. I don't know what it is but the older ones were just more stylish.
It's quite odd how you've kept everything you've owned since your childhood. I wish I could have done that. Now I'm obsessed with collecting what I once had or wanted, it isn't cheap nor easy to do. You could be waiting years or even decades just to find that one piece you want. It can be quite frustrating at times.
Hey Spat. Do you have a Laserdisc machine?
Yes, I have a few, and they are all late 70s early 80s units. I will eventually make videos on them :3
@@spatsbear that’s cool! 😎 But do you know what makes the channel indicator and time appear on the TV screen and those other things too? 😐
Ahh the original home alone VHS with the Pepsi commercial! Spats was that Pepsi commercial running regularly on TV then? I was waaay too young back then to recall.
I think it may have been on TV as well, but I don't quite recall...
Mint in the Box? My parents have a Technika TV
The VCR looks a lot like one which The 8-Bit Guy featured in two videos of his.
One thing I always found interesting about American cable in the analog days was the cable ready channel line up was often different from the cable box lineup. That’s because starting in the late 1980s many of the addressable cable boxes allowed the cable system to map any frequency to any channel number.
In Canada our cable systems had the exact same cable boxes but there was never a difference between cable ready and the cable box. Canadian systems also tended to put premium channels after basic cable/extended cable channels. In the 1990s that was often approx. channels 35 and up (varied by cable/city). By 1997 it was channels 60 and up.
My first TV was a Samsung 14" TV/VCR combo that my parents bought after we moved in 1996. It was white and I remember a few of my friends thought it was a computer. Samsung must not have had a great reputation back then, because my parents said that they were advised not to buy that brand. But it worked perfectly for around 15 years before I gave it to somebody who just needed any TV, which I regret doing. I don't know how common they are, but I don't recall ever seeing another one.
I have to laugh because what you think is vintage, to me is still new. My oldest tv is my uncle's 1948 fadea tv and his mother 1948 GE. Still working very well. Wouldn't mind having my first TV set my first console was a quasar color TV 20 inch screen and a quasar top loader VCR. Just last year I sold my zenith system 3 console TV set. In the 90s I spent oh I say about $1,500 for that set it was still working when I sold it. Some person I met at a car show got on subject of TVs. He was bragging about an old zenith system 3 TV set and wanted to try to find one and I said hey man this is your lucky day! Not only was it right year model the poor man nearly broke down and cried his mother had one. Not only that he seen my 1964 Magnavox stereo system console model . He told me he used to work at Magnavox in fort Wayne Indiana and he's probably one of the guys that built the thing! So I let have stuff. I told him I'm always finding this stuff so I'm not losing anything. So sorry for being smart at beginning of my story we all have are favorite things to collect from our childhood. I was glad to this person out with his. Maybe I might find what you're looking for but don't hold me to it. Because units like that don't really catch my eye only if someone is looking for it. Very interesting video liked it!
How the hell did you anchor it to the wall like that? That thing has to have some really strong brackets to hold that much weight.
I have both Home Alone and Home Alone 2 factory/Not home recorded, on Beta... I also have 007 that was released in 1996 on a factory recorded Beta movie..
Aladdin is on beta to i have it and the mermaid
Wait, so does anyone know what makes the channel number and time appear on TVs like that and like the volume bar thingy?
can i watch music videos with kpop koreans on this crt tv
I had a Emerson vcr like that I hated the manual tracking by 1997 it was dead. Used it from 1992 to 97
Musta been a rich kid on the block