I once had to pay $18 for ONE Beta Tape!!!! And it only recorded 1 friggin hour!!!! And the electronics store I would go to to buy them wouldn't always have them in stock! And you sometimes had to 'talk to the guy in the back room' to negotiate whether he would open the fresh boxes of tapes straight from the Sony factories in Japan or not to ALLOW you to buy ONE FRIGGIN TAPE ONLY!!!! $18.00!!!
bertskoi That was actually cheap in the late 1970s or early 1980s. For example, I saw a September 1980 from a Wisconsin newspaper that lists blank Fuji and TDK T-120 VHS tapes at $31.95 and $35.95 each respectively and Scotch and Sony blank L500 Betamax tapes at $22.95 and $25.99 each. L750 blank Betamax tapes by Fuji or Sony were even more expensive at $30.95 each. Even in the mid-1980s blank tapes were still very expensive. For example, my mom remembers paying usually $10-20 each for blank Sony, Memorex, and TDK VHS tapes in 1985.
This is so spooky, frightening, yet so deliciously 1970's! I LOVE IT!! I can actually remember the late 70's/early 80's and times like those... back when "watching the 'hot new show' on TV" was the absolute THING TO DO, and everybody did it! Nowadays there's so much stuff on TV it's hard to keep up with, plus a lot of it is just junk.
The Sony betamax was one step to the future of video recording back in the 70's. Many they say so many people miss their favorite shows. Now is 2000 already. We have VHS recorders and DVD recorders. Is always the ideal of some people
@@themovietheatre Sorry. I was only messing. I knew that it was Betamax. I never used or seen a Betamax in real life. I live in Ireland, so there was probably very few Betamax systems back in the day. Most were VHS systems. There was also Video 2000 and N1500/N1700 systems by Philips, but like Beta, it was rare. Anyways, up until the early 1980's at least, there was only 2 television channels for most of Ireland, before 1978, only one, and they would only start at 4 or 5pm and finish around 11.30pm, so there was no need for a video recorder
