@Skipper8472 I remember always waiting for the scotch tape advert to come on. "Re-record not fade away" lol. Same goes for the kia-Ora advert. "It's too orangey for crows" lmao. Loved them.😂
I came here to post exactly this! Curious though if the advert was made before or after the first use of "The [actual] Chain" on Formula 1 coverage. Anyone know the answer to that? And also, at least these days, Duracell batteries tend to leak an awful lot. I don't trust them anymore. Energizer for me... And thirdly as a bassist...The Chain is a very fun tune to play! Though I care not much for the first 3 minutes of the song...haha!
@@bretton_woods I'm 48 and that music has been associated with motor racing for as long as I can remember, so I suspect the advert was riffing on that connection.
We had that VHS recorder 1:33 back in the 80s. I enjoyed plenty hours cleaning the playhead with cotton wool and nail polish remover. That thing was 20kg heavy.
80s TV Ad: "are you going to be the last one in your street to own a VHS video recorder?" 2020s Me: "Yup. I'm the last one on my street who still owns a VHS video recorder..."
Currys ad at the end, loved all those Hi Fis , the Honeywell ad reminded me of the "Money for nothin" video by Dire Straits, some good ads on this one Mate 👍
Oh my word..this brings back memories of when my mum and dad got our first VHS player ...Love seeing some of these old tech adverts..even the sound of the voices..people on adverts spoke so different then ..posh compared to now ha ha Thanks for these memories! Sonique 📺📼
I had a Ferguson VideoStar in the '90s and very good it was too. It had digital freeze frame, picture in picture and various other digital effects. Way ahead of it's time.
I remember the OTV ads and one day we drove past it on the way to somewhere. It was like seeing a celebrity. Also seeing Lasky's mentioned on the Vatman ad, I remember the one in Romford!
Romford wasn't bad at all for HiFi shops, back in the day! There was "Greens at Debenhams", another one (forgot the name, sadly!) just across the arcade from Debenhams, Dixons near the fountain, and a Curry's, Lasky's though a little passageway on the other side of the "fountain square", "Rush HiFi"(?) down towards the market, even the Co-Op had a decent-enough hifi department!! Right beside the market stalls there was a Dynatron showroom, with TV's/music centers in "period" wooden cabinets with ornate wooden legs and stuff, lol. I miss those days. Even Tottenham Court Road is now "gone". Used to be about 95% HiFi shops...every single one has closed 😭 I would love to be able to go back in time, rather than forwards! Even the ghastly OTV adverts made me laugh back then! 😆
2:39, the hammer-thrower in the Apple "1984" advert is Anya Major, who also featured as the female gate guard in the video for Elton John's song "Nikita"
@@mmwaashumslowww7167 No, but the man in the armchair reminds me of the actor who plays Dream in the Netflix series, Sandman. Or maybe the other way round.🤣
A real blast from the past..... ......so very 80s! Nothing blew up...no one shouted about anything.....and no one rapped (bafly) any of the adverts.......how things have changed!!!@
Just looking at these, makes me realise it was all about the products, not about trying to ensure inclusive demography in the ads or identity politics underpinned nonsense to cynically enhance a company's righteousness to sell stuff. People were smarter then.
The Sinclair black watch, nice looking watch at the time, but with most things technical back then, an utter failure, apparently some people's battery's were spent after a only a few weeks, also the LED display was very hard to see in well lit environments, it was also temperature sensitive and would run slower or faster depending on the temperature..and a few more things lol, still, nice looking watch at the time.
We used to actually look forward to the adverts back then. I don't really understand why I find modern ads so annoying now. Maybe I got older and wiser!? 😂 There are a handful of modern classics out there though. Those Haribo ads with the adults speaking with kids' voices; they get me every time! 🤣🤣
Omg I feel old 😅. As a kid I only had 3 channels lol u must work really hard to find and edit all the videos u do. Just wanted to say thank u so much for doing this 🎉
In my olds attic, there is my Sony SL-C7UB beta max. It was a minter last time I saw it in 1990. It was put up there when I got a VHS, as though the pic quality was better on my Sony, the sound was distorted and not good. My dad got a quote to fix it but I was not paying that as Betamax was not favored over VHS. Thanks for sharing.
We bought the Electrolux vac, early 70s, it was good though changing the paper bags was a bit messy. I remember our first VHS recorder, it was about £650. It was a great novelty to tape a programme for watching later.
Where on earth did you get these? They look like the film masters, not from some old video tape. These e are from a variety of years as the Sinclair watch was circa 1980 and yet BSB was late 80s. That Maxell advert still looks fantastic 40 years later and, fun fact, that apple Mac advert was directed by Ridley Scott and at the time it was the most expensive commercial ever made. The girl who throws the hammer in it got the job because she was the only one who went to the audition who could throw it with any accuracy. She was also the same model who later played the Russian border guard in the video for the Elton John song 'Nikita'.
Some interesting facts there! Cheers. The ads are all originally from video tapes, but I manually work on them to restore some of the original quality and clean up the sound before they go into the compilations.
@@RetroSteveUK Well you've done a great job in cleaning those video images up so well done. They are nice and sharp and sound good, as old video recordings of that era have usually degraded badly by now. Oh, I forgot to mention the guy in the Maxell advert was Peter Murphy from the Goth Rock band Bauhaus (quite famous at the time). He's 64 years old now!
Ah the Ferguson 3v22 VHS recorder - tough as old boots! We had one for 2 weeks then my dad bought an Hitachi V8000 (nice solenoid controls and it 'sighed' when you ejected the cassette). for another 2 weeks we had TWO VHS recorders "there's posh"
I spent most of the 1970s in the glow of a warm tube rented either from Radio-Rentals or Granada ( If memory servers ) first thing my mum would do with a new set once installed in the front room would be to place a carpet remnant on top of it ( to protect it ) she'd say... everything had carpet on it... even the tables... my parents must have plonked me in front of a TV around 1970s I think... and you know because of my amazing memory I can tell you what I watched, see if you can tell me what the program was, this was before I could walk or talk... the program was about Yoga I think, an Asian man would work out in a Dojo, Japanese style... I learnt to 'sit' with this man and even today I astonish yoga teachers with my 'bendy hips' anyway as time went on... I remember the Banana Splits and the Double Deckers, Mary Mungo & Midge etc etc... I once peered into the back of our rented set to see the glowing tube and the electronics humming away with a sickly broiling vapour made of hot plastics... I used to move in really close to the set to see the pixels on screen... my eyes are buggered today because of that, but yeah the click clack of the TV buttons, same faux wood effect, we never had a VHS recorder, but my dirty uncle did... "what's Whoppers II about Uncle Ted ?" as he'd snatch he away from my prepubescent hands... I do remember seeing his 'VideoStar' recorder in awe... the machine looked like the future of all things now... here ready to play, the tech of the 1980s was fantastic... anyway really enjoyable video.
@@gan9e No problem! Incidentally I bought something off eBay and the seller had used a carpet remnant as padding in the box. It came in very handy for the patch of bare floorboards in my study!!! 🤣
I’ve never heard of (or seen) HCL cassettes, for me, it was TDK D, upgrading to TDK SA when I earnt more money, with the occasional Memorex or BASF for variety.
It's so weird to think there was a period of time where pocket calculators were THE bleeding edge tech - Sinclair made their name with that, Commodore also made them before moving into computers - when, nowadays, it's so difficult to even think of a calculator as technology at all, let alone high technology. And that's it, the Ariston jingle is now in my head for the rest of the week. Amusing to note its effectiveness on me hasn't changed in thirty years 😆 Now I just need the Scotch "Re-record, not fade away" jingle to lose the entire weekend, too.
Since putting these complications together, I've lost count of how many ancient, forgotten jingles were still living up there, lodged in the dark recesses of my head, just waiting to be triggered back into action. It's a blessing, and a curse. 😆
@@RetroSteveUK Oh yes, it certainly is. "Oh, I remember that! Ace!" "OK, brain, that's plenty." "Sorry bud, this is here to stay a while yet. Sucks to be you."
Spent many a good hour servicing those Ferguson vcrs back in the day for MB and RR. We used to find all sorts inside. Money,Lego,toast and mice either dead or vapourised if the touched the power side of things.
Great video's again mate. I'd forgotten about the Duracell ad with the cars, awesome. Funny how Hi-Fi systems have changed, no more stacker systems these days. I remember selling Hi-Fi systems in the late 90's in Comet!
Omg, the Watch, it just reminded me that I have one. It should be with my retro collection in my spare bedroom but I think I put it in with some stuff in the attic by mistake in 1999 when I moved in. When it's a bit cooler I will have to search it out now. .
@@RetroSteveUK need to find it first lol. I've not laid eyes on it for over 20 yrs. I went up the attic a couple of hours ago after seeing your clip but came back down. I'm not to keen on taking on that heat and musty fettered air just yet. I have a Commodore watch as well in my spare bedroom.
My grandparents rented that very video recorder from DER her is Glasgow, the very first video recorder i ever say, still remember those big long piano keys sticking out of it and all the clicking and whirling noises it made when in use. Ha
@@groover5524 Hi yes i had same EE1003 and 1004 I have video on you tube if you search EE1003 it should be at the top of you tube daves electronics I learnt my first electronics from those sets
Little fun fact every technologie that is invented takes 40 years to become mature and prefected and that is the moment its been replaced by new technologiy in their infancy . it took 40 years to have a VCR that was easy to program with in seconds , used long play shortplay etc etc and than it was replaced by the DVD /DVR.
Wow the price of that VCR gives me a better understanding of a burglary at home when I was 11. My Mom had been paid that day and placed her wages on the coffee table, while we were all asleep upstairs thieves broke in and took the VCR, they had to walk straight past the money to get to it, it was obvious they bee lined for the VCR and didn't even notice anything else around them.
Great video as always mate. My parents should always rent their tv and video, I think cos it was cheaper plus they could change to the newer models every year for a couple of pounds more.
I believe Decimo in the 70s actually named their calculators after "VAT man". i.e. HM Inland Revenue tax inspectors, that were responsible for company VAT returns.
Some of the prices in this really do show how inflation🎈 works in practice. The microwave at 03:51 costing £230,- (Assuming 1984 pricing) works out to an equivalent £690,- in 2022 money, and looking ahead another 40 years I'm going to estimate the same purchasing power will amount to £2070,- come the 2060s! 😱 (Obviously: For this purpose we'll ~conveniently~ side-step the fact that one microwaves worth of money in 1984 could buy you about 13 microwaves in 2020! 😛) I couldn't help P-ing myself with laughter at the VatMan ad...Mainly because the prices shown *didn't* include VAT! 🤣 An *awesome* compilation there, Sir! Many thanks for these! Subbed! 😸❤👍
The Apple Hammer Thrower ad was great and one of the most memorable ads of all time. "Think different" said Apple and don't use boring IBM clones. And then a couple of decades later, Apple's iPods, iPhones and iPads become the de facto standard!
Yeah the Apple advert with the voice booming out, "We are one people. One resolve. One course". Which is basically how Apple is today. Oh the irony!! "Think different" in 2022 means don't buy and use an iPhone. :D
The Bonus print ad at 13.00 I did some work there about 15years ago_at that time they employed nearly a thousand people in the factory in Boreham Wood and the owner was one of the country's wealthiest men. In little more than five years digital photography saw the number employed drop from a thousand to about thirty. The site is now a BMW dealership and a large Tescos car park
I remember seeing a documentary about Kodak - they were offered digital camera technology by one of their employees but they told him to bury it to avoid harming their profits. of course they eventually went under as a result.
@@RetroSteveUK the most film the bonus print group processed during the summer was approximately 120000 per day. The silver reclaimed from the films paid for all the processing; the money paid by the customers who sent film in was pure profit. The was a court case that went on for months as about 2 tons was stolen by several people employed in the silver reclamation plant
HCL cassettes? - never heard of them. There were a few Radio Rental 'Max Headroom' ads in 1985/6 - this one is titled 'Don't Buy'. 'Macintosh Apple Computers: 1984' was directed by Ridley Scott! It aired 1983/4. 'Ariston: Rousseau' (1987/8). 'Bonusprint: Memories' (1985/6) directed by Laurence Hutchins (full ad is 60 seconds). 'Radio Rentals: Beau Gest' (1985/6) voiced by Roy Kinnear and directed by Graham Rose. 'Maxell Tapes: Storm' (1981/2) directed by Howard Guard. Jimmy Nail did a few ad for Kodak Kodacolour Gold 1987-1989 - this one is the full version also featuring Steve Cram. 'Duracell: Endurance Race' - music is a complete rip-off of Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' which was used as theme for BBC's coverage of the Grand Prix. The ad is from 1981/82 directed by Ken Turner. 'Telecom Securicor Cellnet: Message' (1984/5) directed by Graham Rose. 'Duracell Batteries: Yachts' (1985/6) directed by Martin Reavley. Unbelievable that you too have managed to find the Kodak Gold II commercial which was made specially for, and aired during, the 1992 Olympics. I have a couple of recordings of this on VHS somewhere but the sound may be 'low'. This is yet another great commercial directed by Ridley Scott with specially recorded music by John Barry. Whilst the full ad was 60 seconds it was cut to 30 seconds for its UK transmission. America retained the full-length version with a slightly different voiceover. 'Honeywell Computers: Automated Office' (1986/7).
Hi Steve. Do you remember the advert with bill oddy in it for a polystyrene rotating wing like a kind of kite ? I think it was called aeroblade or rotoblade I had one in the 70s and would love to see the advert. Nice nostalgic vids :). Ps it never flew.
Only 10 years ago , a privately owned electrical store near me was selling Analogue Radios’ under the heading of “ Digital Radio “ due to the machine having a Digital Read Tuner ! 🙄
Amazing that Duracell is still using zinc-carbon/chloride comparisons today, back then the comparisons might have been somewhat relevant but now it's just dodgy marketing. I'm surprised the likes of Energizer haven't done comparisons between Duracell Alkaline batteries and their Lithium primary cells, though I could see Duracell suing!
The Sinclair Black Watch available in, among others, Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges; that must have been one of Sir Clive's more upmarket products. Seems a bit of a nuisance though if you have to tap it or press a button to tell what the time is
Things were very expensive, £40 for a calculator which is about £100 today (based on £40 in 1980 with inflation added), considering you could buy a cheap calculator today for about £5 or less. I remember we had a Hitachi Video player VHS which was about £600 at the time in 1983.
I think it's always been an 'early adopter' price whenever new technology emerges. Even now, a new type of TV (8k for example) will cost a fortune, but the price will drop as they become more common. I guess calculators were a new-fangled thing back then.
"New budget price of £116"; I wonder what that would equate to today 🤔 - Edit Well, taking 1980 as an approximate date, £100 then equates to £550 today, so that new budget price was still fairly hefty. And the VHS player at £199! ☺
Anyone remember video 2000 by Philips where you could turn the video tapes over and record like you would an audio cassette you could get 4 films on one tape
That Cellnet advert appears to have been inspired by the film Koyaanisqatsi, although it misses the message of the film. (“Koyaanisqatsi” means “life out of balance”, with the rise of technology being a factor in life getting out of balance…)
I noticed that too.......musical score and imagery very similar..... Koyaannisqatsi is a film everyone should take the opportunity to sit down and watch!
I suspect it's a bit of both. I remember TV shows at the time testing different types of battery. I think it was a case of yes, the expensive batteries last longer, but not proportionately to the price increase, so it seems some of your money is going towards paying for the advertising.
I can't find online f the VATMAN calculator was sold in the US or not. I was curious because that name, "Vatman" seems like something that would have to be renamed for the US market as the name sounds like a play on words that no one in the US would understand, especially 50 years ago. I love the Max Headroom one because Americans don't often get to see American celebrities doing commercials. That is, unless they did it before they were famous. I'm surprised a cable/satellite company would use an American football player in their UK or any other non-US commercials.
I think with the American Football thing, at the time it was seen as an up-and-coming sport you couldn't get anywhere else, so they highlighted it. British Satellite Broadcasting eventually went under and were bought out by Sky TV, becoming British Sky Broadcasting. That eventually reverted back to just Sky.
I think Decimo calculators was a purely British operation. And apparently Decimo did name their VATMAN calculators after "VAT man". i.e. HM Inland Revenue tax inspectors, that were responsible for company VAT(Value Added Tax) returns. VAT was introduced in the UK in 1973, to replace the older Purchase Tax system.
I can't remember the last time I saw a modern advert, and yet I can watch these for hours. Loved the quality and creativity of ads in the 80's n 90's.
@Skipper8472 I remember always waiting for the scotch tape advert to come on. "Re-record not fade away" lol.
Same goes for the kia-Ora advert. "It's too orangey for crows" lmao. Loved them.😂
I like the way the Duracell RC car music is trying SO HARD to sound like Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain!
Close enough, but not enough to need copyright permission. 😂
I came here to post exactly this! Curious though if the advert was made before or after the first use of "The [actual] Chain" on Formula 1 coverage. Anyone know the answer to that?
And also, at least these days, Duracell batteries tend to leak an awful lot. I don't trust them anymore. Energizer for me...
And thirdly as a bassist...The Chain is a very fun tune to play! Though I care not much for the first 3 minutes of the song...haha!
@@bretton_woods I'm 48 and that music has been associated with motor racing for as long as I can remember, so I suspect the advert was riffing on that connection.
Ariston and on and on and on, this brought back memories
FANTASTIC! This brought me back to my childhood! I can still hear my dad shouting "DON'T TOUCH THAT!!🤣
We had that VHS recorder 1:33 back in the 80s. I enjoyed plenty hours cleaning the playhead with cotton wool and nail polish remover. That thing was 20kg heavy.
That Mac 1984 ad was such an epic
He is doing well to pick up that top loading video recorder. Heavy lumps 🤣
80s TV Ad: "are you going to be the last one in your street to own a VHS video recorder?"
2020s Me: "Yup. I'm the last one on my street who still owns a VHS video recorder..."
Snap! I said exactly that to my wife when we watched that advert the other day. Still got a VHS player under the telly!
Why did we spend all that cash recording and building up a film and TV collection - only to dump it?
“You’ll be glued to our sets, not stuck with them.”
The writer of that clever slogan must have been well chuffed!
Watching that was like travelling back in time to my youth, bloody great!
Currys ad at the end, loved all those Hi Fis , the Honeywell ad reminded me of the "Money for nothin" video by Dire Straits, some good ads on this one Mate 👍
I actually wondered whether that ad was riffing on the Money For Nothing graphics.
I have that Kenwood series 21 at 12:38. Except mine is better. It's so big it looks like the friggin Nakatomi Plaza.
The old TV screen surround is such a nice touch! Also love the 88mph lol
lol currys dearer back then than now..what a great watch from a era as a child
Oh my word..this brings back memories of when my mum and dad got our first VHS player ...Love seeing some of these old tech adverts..even the sound of the voices..people on adverts spoke so different then ..posh compared to now ha ha Thanks for these memories! Sonique 📺📼
Our first video machine was rented from a local independent shop. It was like magic!
They took two people to carry 😭 lol
I had a Ferguson VideoStar in the '90s and very good it was too. It had digital freeze frame, picture in picture and various other digital effects. Way ahead of it's time.
Ahead of its time sums it up. Anything with digital features back then would have been amazing.
I remember the OTV ads and one day we drove past it on the way to somewhere. It was like seeing a celebrity. Also seeing Lasky's mentioned on the Vatman ad, I remember the one in Romford!
Romford wasn't bad at all for HiFi shops, back in the day! There was "Greens at Debenhams", another one (forgot the name, sadly!) just across the arcade from Debenhams, Dixons near the fountain, and a Curry's, Lasky's though a little passageway on the other side of the "fountain square", "Rush HiFi"(?) down towards the market, even the Co-Op had a decent-enough hifi department!! Right beside the market stalls there was a Dynatron showroom, with TV's/music centers in "period" wooden cabinets with ornate wooden legs and stuff, lol. I miss those days. Even Tottenham Court Road is now "gone". Used to be about 95% HiFi shops...every single one has closed 😭 I would love to be able to go back in time, rather than forwards! Even the ghastly OTV adverts made me laugh back then! 😆
2:39, the hammer-thrower in the Apple "1984" advert is Anya Major, who also featured as the female gate guard in the video for Elton John's song "Nikita"
Anyone as a child get excited at the sight of a video player being under a telly being wheeled into the classroom
Definitely!
Thanks for the memories, Steve. Still remember the maxell advert.🥰
Do you remember the Maxel ad where the reggae singer's ears were alight?
@@mmwaashumslowww7167 No, but the man in the armchair reminds me of the actor who plays Dream in the Netflix series, Sandman. Or maybe the other way round.🤣
A real blast from the past.....
......so very 80s!
Nothing blew up...no one shouted about anything.....and no one rapped (bafly) any of the adverts.......how things have changed!!!@
Just looking at these, makes me realise it was all about the products, not about trying to ensure inclusive demography in the ads or identity politics underpinned nonsense to cynically enhance a company's righteousness to sell stuff. People were smarter then.
The Sinclair black watch, nice looking watch at the time, but with most things technical back then, an utter failure, apparently some people's battery's were spent after a only a few weeks, also the LED display was very hard to see in well lit environments, it was also temperature sensitive and would run slower or faster depending on the temperature..and a few more things lol, still, nice looking watch at the time.
Blimey! I didn't realize it was really that bad! No wonder it failed.
What a fantastic trip back to my younger days!
I very rarely watch live tv anymore. I kinda miss adverts:) these are gold!
We used to actually look forward to the adverts back then. I don't really understand why I find modern ads so annoying now. Maybe I got older and wiser!? 😂 There are a handful of modern classics out there though. Those Haribo ads with the adults speaking with kids' voices; they get me every time! 🤣🤣
Omg I feel old 😅. As a kid I only had 3 channels lol u must work really hard to find and edit all the videos u do. Just wanted to say thank u so much for doing this 🎉
Yeah, I put in a few hours each week but it's so much fun it makes it a pleasure. Thanks for watching. 🙂
In my olds attic, there is my Sony SL-C7UB beta max. It was a minter last time I saw it in 1990. It was put up there when I got a VHS, as though the pic quality was better on my Sony, the sound was distorted and not good. My dad got a quote to fix it but I was not paying that as Betamax was not favored over VHS. Thanks for sharing.
I had a second-hand Betamax for my bedroom in my teens. Nice picture quality.
I love the fact that the voice overs are so well spoken, rather than the barely coherent babbling that modern adverts have, init.
Totes
We bought the Electrolux vac, early 70s, it was good though changing the paper bags was a bit messy.
I remember our first VHS recorder, it was about £650. It was a great novelty to tape a programme for watching later.
Our first was a rental from a local TV shop. First thing I did was run down to the video store to rent a film!
Where on earth did you get these? They look like the film masters, not from some old video tape. These e are from a variety of years as the Sinclair watch was circa 1980 and yet BSB was late 80s.
That Maxell advert still looks fantastic 40 years later and, fun fact, that apple Mac advert was directed by Ridley Scott and at the time it was the most expensive commercial ever made. The girl who throws the hammer in it got the job because she was the only one who went to the audition who could throw it with any accuracy. She was also the same model who later played the Russian border guard in the video for the Elton John song 'Nikita'.
Some interesting facts there! Cheers. The ads are all originally from video tapes, but I manually work on them to restore some of the original quality and clean up the sound before they go into the compilations.
@@RetroSteveUK Well you've done a great job in cleaning those video images up so well done. They are nice and sharp and sound good, as old video recordings of that era have usually degraded badly by now. Oh, I forgot to mention the guy in the Maxell advert was Peter Murphy from the Goth Rock band Bauhaus (quite famous at the time). He's 64 years old now!
This maybe the best one yet, Steve. Love it!
Like watching the prize board on Bullseye
Ariston...oh my goodness, i remember that ad fondly
That fridge freezer from Curries, £279!! Probably about a month's wage at time in 84?? I was 11 going on 12
Probably would have bought that sort of thing on Hire Purchase.
Yep. A month's salary for me in 1984 was £256!
Ariston !!! Brilliant
Ah the Ferguson 3v22 VHS recorder - tough as old boots! We had one for 2 weeks then my dad bought an Hitachi V8000 (nice solenoid controls and it 'sighed' when you ejected the cassette). for another 2 weeks we had TWO VHS recorders "there's posh"
Ooh! Get you! 🤣
We rented our first VHS from a local shop. It was a cheap monthly fee & they'd fix or replace it whenever anything went wrong.
I remember so many of these 😭 lol
I spent most of the 1970s in the glow of a warm tube rented either from Radio-Rentals or Granada ( If memory servers ) first thing my mum would do with a new set once installed in the front room would be to place a carpet remnant on top of it ( to protect it ) she'd say... everything had carpet on it... even the tables... my parents must have plonked me in front of a TV around 1970s I think... and you know because of my amazing memory I can tell you what I watched, see if you can tell me what the program was, this was before I could walk or talk... the program was about Yoga I think, an Asian man would work out in a Dojo, Japanese style... I learnt to 'sit' with this man and even today I astonish yoga teachers with my 'bendy hips' anyway as time went on... I remember the Banana Splits and the Double Deckers, Mary Mungo & Midge etc etc... I once peered into the back of our rented set to see the glowing tube and the electronics humming away with a sickly broiling vapour made of hot plastics... I used to move in really close to the set to see the pixels on screen... my eyes are buggered today because of that, but yeah the click clack of the TV buttons, same faux wood effect, we never had a VHS recorder, but my dirty uncle did... "what's Whoppers II about Uncle Ted ?" as he'd snatch he away from my prepubescent hands... I do remember seeing his 'VideoStar' recorder in awe... the machine looked like the future of all things now... here ready to play, the tech of the 1980s was fantastic... anyway really enjoyable video.
Yoga for Health: With Richard Hittleman
@@markboulton954 That's him!, thank you so much.
@@gan9e No problem! Incidentally I bought something off eBay and the seller had used a carpet remnant as padding in the box. It came in very handy for the patch of bare floorboards in my study!!! 🤣
I remember going to OTV with my dad back in the day! 😂 What a blast from the past!🍺
FIVE-channel TV? Oh BSB, you’re spoiling us with such riches!
I’ve never heard of (or seen) HCL cassettes, for me, it was TDK D, upgrading to TDK SA when I earnt more money, with the occasional Memorex or BASF for variety.
Most of mine were TDK. I think HCL might have been a bit earlier, in the 70s, maybe.
NEVER heard of "HCL", either! I bet that was their one and only advert! 🙂
They deserve credit for remembering the apostrophe in "the professionals' choice"
@@AndreiTupolev - Back in the days when people cared about such things. I see lots of signs around these days with misplaced apostrophes.
Love the old piano key video. I remember OTV, lived not too far from them.
It's so weird to think there was a period of time where pocket calculators were THE bleeding edge tech - Sinclair made their name with that, Commodore also made them before moving into computers - when, nowadays, it's so difficult to even think of a calculator as technology at all, let alone high technology.
And that's it, the Ariston jingle is now in my head for the rest of the week. Amusing to note its effectiveness on me hasn't changed in thirty years 😆 Now I just need the Scotch "Re-record, not fade away" jingle to lose the entire weekend, too.
Since putting these complications together, I've lost count of how many ancient, forgotten jingles were still living up there, lodged in the dark recesses of my head, just waiting to be triggered back into action. It's a blessing, and a curse. 😆
@@RetroSteveUK Oh yes, it certainly is. "Oh, I remember that! Ace!"
"OK, brain, that's plenty."
"Sorry bud, this is here to stay a while yet. Sucks to be you."
So much love for this. Excellent stuff
At 2:38 ... WELL That Apple didn't age very well now, didn't it? Lol.. Oooh the irony!
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, mega nostalgia hit. Thank you squire 👍
No probs! 🙂👍
The dude in the Maxell "Break the sound barrier" ad is Peter Murphy, lead vocalist and guitarist with Bauhaus.
Spent many a good hour servicing those Ferguson vcrs back in the day for MB and RR. We used to find all sorts inside. Money,Lego,toast and mice either dead or vapourised if the touched the power side of things.
One of my friends had a banana skin jammed in their VCR slot, courtesy of their two-year-old son. 😆
@@RetroSteveUK That's what made working on them fun.Like a Kinder egg, you never knew what you would find when you took the lid off 😀
Great video's again mate. I'd forgotten about the Duracell ad with the cars, awesome. Funny how Hi-Fi systems have changed, no more stacker systems these days. I remember selling Hi-Fi systems in the late 90's in Comet!
What I wouldn't give now to be able to walk into Currys and buy dedicated hifi separates! 😥
How the hell did I miss this one???
Nice upload Steve 👍
The radio rentals advert, the guy messing with the video recorder is the same actor who played Roland Brownings Dad in grange hill
Good spot!
Omg, the Watch, it just reminded me that I have one. It should be with my retro collection in my spare bedroom but I think I put it in with some stuff in the attic by mistake in 1999 when I moved in. When it's a bit cooler I will have to search it out now. .
Wow. Better get that valued.
@@RetroSteveUK need to find it first lol. I've not laid eyes on it for over 20 yrs. I went up the attic a couple of hours ago after seeing your clip but came back down. I'm not to keen on taking on that heat and musty fettered air just yet. I have a Commodore watch as well in my spare bedroom.
@@richhughes7450 I'd be interested to hear how this turns out. Le tme know if you get anywhere.
@@RetroSteveUK I will but I'm in no hurry to surf that attic. I was up there no more than 5 mins and I was sweating like hell.
My grandparents rented that very video recorder from DER her is Glasgow, the very first video recorder i ever say, still remember those big long piano keys sticking out of it and all the clicking and whirling noises it made when in use. Ha
Funny how such simple things we don't think of at the time end up forming fond memories.
My first vcr was a Ferguson top loader ex rental from radio rentals it felt so futuristic
We had an Amstrad top loader and the remote was on a wired cable 😂 circa 1984
We had a rental tv. 50p box in the back and the first vhs video we got at home was one flew over the cuckoo's nest
First video I rented was Ghostbusters. I'd already seen it three times in the cinema. Having it on VHS was incredible.
I like the cunning almost-but-not-quite Grand Prix music in the Duracell radio controlled car ad
Close but no cigar. 😆
Omg I’d forgot about some of these ads
Brilliant
Did anyone see an advert in early 70s advertising Philips electronics kits ee1003 1004
For learning kids electronics around about 1973 1974
Still looking for that? Hopefully someone will be able to help at some point if they see this comment.
Not seen the Ad but I had the EE1003 kit back in the early 70's .
@@groover5524 Hi yes i had same EE1003 and 1004
I have video on you tube if you search EE1003 it should be at the top of you tube daves electronics
I learnt my first electronics from those sets
Yes my friend, I had one. You could build an ocillator or a radio. There were about 50 projects in all with a brief tutorial of how it worked.
There were two types, Betamax and 📼
My VCR had a handy remote control.........on a lead!🤣
I remember visiting a distant relative back in the early 80s in London. They had a VCR with a long remote wire. Seemed really snazzy at the time. 😂
Little fun fact every technologie that is invented takes 40 years to become mature and prefected and that is the moment its been replaced by new technologiy in their infancy . it took 40 years to have a VCR that was easy to program with in seconds , used long play shortplay etc etc and than it was replaced by the DVD /DVR.
Wow the price of that VCR gives me a better understanding of a burglary at home when I was 11. My Mom had been paid that day and placed her wages on the coffee table, while we were all asleep upstairs thieves broke in and took the VCR, they had to walk straight past the money to get to it, it was obvious they bee lined for the VCR and didn't even notice anything else around them.
Jeez, that's awful. I've been lucky enough in my lifetime to never have been burgled. Feels more like luck than judgement.
Great video as always mate. My parents should always rent their tv and video, I think cos it was cheaper plus they could change to the newer models every year for a couple of pounds more.
Yeah, our family was the same. Very cheap to rent, and free repairs and replacements.
0:41 LOL Vatman calculators- Prices exclude VAT.
Haha! 🤣
I never noticed that!
I believe Decimo in the 70s actually named their calculators after "VAT man". i.e. HM Inland Revenue tax inspectors, that were responsible for company VAT returns.
Heard in the voiceovers: Hewell Bennett, Roy Kinnear and Michael Horden.
Think I heard Peter Sallis from Last of The Summer Wine
My old maths teacher, use to say that I needed to learn maths because I wouldn't always have a calculator with me. 🤣
Yep! Same here. 🤣🤣🤣
Ariston..... Lol memories...
Some of the prices in this really do show how inflation🎈 works in practice. The microwave at 03:51 costing £230,- (Assuming 1984 pricing) works out to an equivalent £690,- in 2022 money, and looking ahead another 40 years I'm going to estimate the same purchasing power will amount to £2070,- come the 2060s! 😱
(Obviously: For this purpose we'll ~conveniently~ side-step the fact that one microwaves worth of money in 1984 could buy you about 13 microwaves in 2020! 😛)
I couldn't help P-ing myself with laughter at the VatMan ad...Mainly because the prices shown *didn't* include VAT! 🤣
An *awesome* compilation there, Sir! Many thanks for these! Subbed! 😸❤👍
Cheers! 🙂👍
Perhaps 1984 was not like 1984 because it was delayed until 2022?
Good point!
“ Last well past 1992 “ has to in here 😁👍❤️ IT WAS but it was 1991 & hadn’t the Skeleton…….
GOOD OLD DAYS... I REMEMBER GOING ON HOLS AND YOU WOULD GIVE THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR THE VIDEO TO WATCH UNTIL YOU GOT BACK😂
The Apple Hammer Thrower ad was great and one of the most memorable ads of all time. "Think different" said Apple and don't use boring IBM clones. And then a couple of decades later, Apple's iPods, iPhones and iPads become the de facto standard!
It was ironic. "don't be like this brainwashed mass, be like this one instead."
Yeah the Apple advert with the voice booming out, "We are one people. One resolve. One course". Which is basically how Apple is today. Oh the irony!!
"Think different" in 2022 means don't buy and use an iPhone. :D
The Bonus print ad at 13.00 I did some work there about 15years ago_at that time they employed nearly a thousand people in the factory in Boreham Wood and the owner was one of the country's wealthiest men. In little more than five years digital photography saw the number employed drop from a thousand to about thirty. The site is now a BMW dealership and a large Tescos car park
I remember seeing a documentary about Kodak - they were offered digital camera technology by one of their employees but they told him to bury it to avoid harming their profits. of course they eventually went under as a result.
@@RetroSteveUK the most film the bonus print group processed during the summer was approximately 120000 per day. The silver reclaimed from the films paid for all the processing; the money paid by the customers who sent film in was pure profit.
The was a court case that went on for months as about 2 tons was stolen by several people employed in the silver reclamation plant
Should have gone to Radio Rentals? Now where have I heard that slogan before??
HCL cassettes? - never heard of them.
There were a few Radio Rental 'Max Headroom' ads in 1985/6 - this one is titled 'Don't Buy'.
'Macintosh Apple Computers: 1984' was directed by Ridley Scott! It aired 1983/4.
'Ariston: Rousseau' (1987/8).
'Bonusprint: Memories' (1985/6) directed by Laurence Hutchins (full ad is 60 seconds).
'Radio Rentals: Beau Gest' (1985/6) voiced by Roy Kinnear and directed by Graham Rose.
'Maxell Tapes: Storm' (1981/2) directed by Howard Guard.
Jimmy Nail did a few ad for Kodak Kodacolour Gold 1987-1989 - this one is the full version also featuring Steve Cram.
'Duracell: Endurance Race' - music is a complete rip-off of Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain' which was used as theme for BBC's coverage of the Grand Prix. The ad is from 1981/82 directed by Ken Turner.
'Telecom Securicor Cellnet: Message' (1984/5) directed by Graham Rose.
'Duracell Batteries: Yachts' (1985/6) directed by Martin Reavley.
Unbelievable that you too have managed to find the Kodak Gold II commercial which was made specially for, and aired during, the 1992 Olympics. I have a couple of recordings of this on VHS somewhere but the sound may be 'low'. This is yet another great commercial directed by Ridley Scott with specially recorded music by John Barry. Whilst the full ad was 60 seconds it was cut to 30 seconds for its UK transmission. America retained the full-length version with a slightly different voiceover.
'Honeywell Computers: Automated Office' (1986/7).
when adverts just told you about theyre stuff were as now they just scream at you to buy theyre stuff.NOW NOW NOW.
I received the date version of the Sinclair Black Watch (The ‘Grey Watch’) for Christmas 1977.
Did it work?
@@tosspot1305 - Yes, flawlessly. I absolutely loved it! (Just wish I’d kept it).
they did not allow pocket calculators in class at my school .You had to do your sums with your brain
Isn't that what calculator wrist watches were for?
Hi Steve. Do you remember the advert with bill oddy in it for a polystyrene rotating wing like a kind of kite ? I think it was called aeroblade or rotoblade I had one in the 70s and would love to see the advert. Nice nostalgic vids :). Ps it never flew.
Not ringing any bells I'm afraid.
@@RetroSteveUK thanks for replying :)
Great stuff lad🤣👍👍
Well the Apple ad has turned out to be ironic...
Yup! Great username, by the way! 🤣👍
Only 10 years ago , a privately owned electrical store near me was selling Analogue Radios’ under the heading of “ Digital Radio “ due to the machine having a Digital Read Tuner ! 🙄
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I remember the days when everyone had a pocket calculator, I could never understand why 😂🤔
The times when burglers had to work hard , you could barely lift those Ferguson vcr’s
Awesome! 🙂❤👍
Amazing that Duracell is still using zinc-carbon/chloride comparisons today, back then the comparisons might have been somewhat relevant but now it's just dodgy marketing. I'm surprised the likes of Energizer haven't done comparisons between Duracell Alkaline batteries and their Lithium primary cells, though I could see Duracell suing!
Ah, yes the Ariston advert with Trio's classic "Da Da Da". I hope the vocalist was a genuine German or I'll have to make a complaint...
OTV…that would be Joe Williams IIRC.
The Sinclair Black Watch available in, among others, Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges; that must have been one of Sir Clive's more upmarket products. Seems a bit of a nuisance though if you have to tap it or press a button to tell what the time is
I never had one, but I've heard they were quite unreliable. Style over substance, I imagine.
Things were very expensive, £40 for a calculator which is about £100 today (based on £40 in 1980 with inflation added), considering you could buy a cheap calculator today for about £5 or less. I remember we had a Hitachi Video player VHS which was about £600 at the time in 1983.
I think it's always been an 'early adopter' price whenever new technology emerges. Even now, a new type of TV (8k for example) will cost a fortune, but the price will drop as they become more common. I guess calculators were a new-fangled thing back then.
Never seen some of these before were they shown on tv nationwide? I know in the south west we didn’t get a lot of these
All these adverts are collected from a wide variety of location sources, so they'd be a random mix of area specific and national.
"New budget price of £116"; I wonder what that would equate to today 🤔
- Edit Well, taking 1980 as an approximate date, £100 then equates to £550 today, so that new budget price was still fairly hefty. And the VHS player at £199! ☺
I remember the adds and music after all this time..can't see anyone looking back at the adds of today ..time's have changed and not for the better
I do like those modern Haribo ads though, I gotta admit .. "We are the police!!" 🤣 Definitely fewer good ones now though, and far between.
electrical stuff cost a lot more then than now wow lol
Anyone remember video 2000 by Philips where you could turn the video tapes over and record like you would an audio cassette you could get 4 films on one tape
Yeah, there's an ad for those on one of the other technology and compilations. Vol.1 to 3, can't remember which off-hand.
Even today £199 for a brick seems a lot.
That Cellnet advert appears to have been inspired by the film Koyaanisqatsi, although it misses the message of the film. (“Koyaanisqatsi” means “life out of balance”, with the rise of technology being a factor in life getting out of balance…)
I noticed that too.......musical score and imagery very similar.....
Koyaannisqatsi is a film everyone should take the opportunity to sit down and watch!
Duracell last as long as any other alkane battery. It is clever marketing comparing themselves to Zinc-carbin batteries that don't last very long.
Vatman... Prices exclude VAT ;)
Did Duracell actually last longer,or just pump out the most adverts?
I suspect it's a bit of both. I remember TV shows at the time testing different types of battery. I think it was a case of yes, the expensive batteries last longer, but not proportionately to the price increase, so it seems some of your money is going towards paying for the advertising.
Duracell No other battery looks like it or leaks like it.
I can't find online f the VATMAN calculator was sold in the US or not. I was curious because that name, "Vatman" seems like something that would have to be renamed for the US market as the name sounds like a play on words that no one in the US would understand, especially 50 years ago. I love the Max Headroom one because Americans don't often get to see American celebrities doing commercials. That is, unless they did it before they were famous. I'm surprised a cable/satellite company would use an American football player in their UK or any other non-US commercials.
I think with the American Football thing, at the time it was seen as an up-and-coming sport you couldn't get anywhere else, so they highlighted it. British Satellite Broadcasting eventually went under and were bought out by Sky TV, becoming British Sky Broadcasting. That eventually reverted back to just Sky.
I think Decimo calculators was a purely British operation. And apparently Decimo did name their VATMAN calculators after "VAT man". i.e. HM Inland Revenue tax inspectors, that were responsible for company VAT(Value Added Tax) returns. VAT was introduced in the UK in 1973, to replace the older Purchase Tax system.
Ahh Joe OTV!!!