I remember this being played in the cinema before Planes, Trains & Automobiles started, in February 1988, so this advert is actually from three years later.
My late mother once said to me: "When you're young, you want everything, but you can't afford it. When you're old, you don't want anything much, even though you can afford it." In 1985, I didn't have a bean. In 2023, my parents have now both sadly passed away, and thanks to my inheritance, I can have pretty much whatever I want (within reason), but just as my beloved mother told me, I'm not sure I want it? R.I.P. Mary Mattinson 1939 - 2021 😭 "You are what I want now, more than anything!" Life can be terribly sad, can't it?
Electrical goods were *SO* expensive then. The video recorder for example was almost £1,300 in 2020 money. Multiply these prices by 3.25 to get their equivalent in 2020 prices.
@@mikekaraoke all the prices were massively expensive. Electricals were so expensive back then + you can basically multiply all the prices by 3.25 to get 2020 prices.
Hard to believe that back then those items looked new and shiny, now they look Loki what a radiogram seemed to me when I was a teenager in the 80s, old fashioned.
The reason why most of the 80's stuff was so expensive was because they used electronic and mechanical mechanisms. It was the manufacturing costs of these components that drove up the prices. True, a lot of the tech today is far more advanced and cheaper but they certainly won't last as long as these.
£400 in those days was also a hell of a lot more than it is now. Multiply it by 3.25 to get 2020 prices. So that video would have been the equivalent of £1,300 in 2020 money
@@mikekaraoke That's not really the point. Rental for these goods was also very expensive back then, and most people aren't forced to rent them now because they're so much cheaper. The wider point is that electrical goods in those days were massively expensive. Things are much, much cheaper now.
@@th8257 No they were not, very expensive to rent- As if that was the case then all them rental companies would of gone bust within a few months! A few of my friends folks were not rich or comfortable so they were struggling and could never of afforded VHS Player/TV player etc outright unless they saved for about 10 months straight-Renting was a saviour to them in 1983 and remember hearing at primary school if they never had them renting shops they would of never got TV, Microwave, VHS Player, Dishwasher, etc straight away
Yeah but how long will the DVD player last. Many of these VCR's are still going today. The ones that are broken probably just need the heads cleaning, belts changing or capacitors swapped out. It's a simple fix. DVD players use lasers. Once that's gone it's had it.
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I remember this being played in the cinema before Planes, Trains & Automobiles started, in February 1988, so this advert is actually from three years later.
My late mother once said to me: "When you're young, you want everything, but you can't afford it. When you're old, you don't want anything much, even though you can afford it."
In 1985, I didn't have a bean. In 2023, my parents have now both sadly passed away, and thanks to my inheritance, I can have pretty much whatever I want (within reason), but just as my beloved mother told me, I'm not sure I want it?
R.I.P. Mary Mattinson 1939 - 2021 😭 "You are what I want now, more than anything!"
Life can be terribly sad, can't it?
Electrical goods were *SO* expensive then. The video recorder for example was almost £1,300 in 2020 money. Multiply these prices by 3.25 to get their equivalent in 2020 prices.
Now I know why my parents had a rental TV. Electronics were so expensive back then.
BTW, that Camcorder would cost the equivalent of
£3,602.85 in 2019
There were some people that just rented Camcorder instead you know-Common Knowledge
@@mikekaraoke all the prices were massively expensive. Electricals were so expensive back then + you can basically multiply all the prices by 3.25 to get 2020 prices.
Techmoan brought me here....
Omg just like currys right now omg great advert
We were soooo ripped off back then as we are now.
Hard to believe that back then those items looked new and shiny, now they look Loki what a radiogram seemed to me when I was a teenager in the 80s, old fashioned.
The reason why most of the 80's stuff was so expensive was because they used electronic and mechanical mechanisms. It was the manufacturing costs of these components that drove up the prices. True, a lot of the tech today is far more advanced and cheaper but they certainly won't last as long as these.
£400 for a VHS player. Over three decades later and you can pick up a new DVD player off the high street for about £25.
But you also had the option back then to get any of them from rental places like: Radio Rentals, Granada , Radio Shack, Martin Dawes
, Rumbleowes, etc
£400 in those days was also a hell of a lot more than it is now. Multiply it by 3.25 to get 2020 prices. So that video would have been the equivalent of £1,300 in 2020 money
@@mikekaraoke That's not really the point. Rental for these goods was also very expensive back then, and most people aren't forced to rent them now because they're so much cheaper. The wider point is that electrical goods in those days were massively expensive. Things are much, much cheaper now.
@@th8257 No they were not, very expensive to rent- As if that was the case then all them rental companies would of gone bust within a few months!
A few of my friends folks were not rich or comfortable so they were struggling and could never of afforded VHS Player/TV player etc outright unless they saved for about 10 months straight-Renting was a saviour to them in 1983 and remember hearing at primary school if they never had them renting shops they would of never got TV, Microwave, VHS Player, Dishwasher, etc straight away
Yeah but how long will the DVD player last. Many of these VCR's are still going today. The ones that are broken probably just need the heads cleaning, belts changing or capacitors swapped out. It's a simple fix. DVD players use lasers. Once that's gone it's had it.
Tv good huh, ???