I remember seeing one of the 1st VHS players at a car dealership. The player was top loading, like a giant cassette player. It was about the size of a writing desk.
“I remember seeing one of the 1st VHS players at a car dealership. The player was top loading, like a giant cassette player. It was about the size of a writing desk.”
I bought an RCA VCR (VHS) in 1978. A top loader, it was huge and very heavy, had a wired remote. I paid $750 for it if memory serves. I kept it 10 years and it still worked great when I got rid of it for a newer Hi-Fi Zenith.
One interesting thing about the old RCA is that it was immune to copy protection, I could record rental videos. I was excited about that at first, but the process was tedious since it had to be done in real time, and there was degradation of the image since you were dealing with transfering analog signals. Add in the fact that you could rent a movie for less than the price of VHS cassette and it just wasn’t worth the effort.