I had a Trinitron portable. Ruined the screen first day I had it by putting hifi speakers either side of it. The magnets permanently warped the screen. 😞
The "...and on and on and Ariston..." voiceover was done by Tim Whitnall, best known to many of a certain vintage as Angelo in CITV's _Mike and Angelo_ .
@@RetroSteveUK It's more C64 than Spectrum, but it surprised me at the time that computer game music (and the best track, at that) was being used in an advert.
I got mine (rubber key version) from new in 1984 when I was 10. Best thing my parents ever bought me. I wouldn't be as tech savvy as I am now without that experience.
Always loved the new Sony Brochure coming out. They made so many unique products. I have a 16" widescreen Nicam Stereo (rarer than the non Nicam Stereo model) CRT Trinitron here in my Batcave. I do not think any other manufacturer made one unless JDM only.
🎵Oh we walked at the end of the day, oh we walked when we lock the world away, nothing complicated nothing tricky, just a perfect picture! Don't you wish you had a Mitsubishi, don't you wish you had a Mitsubishi, nothing complicated just a perfect picture, don't you wish you had a Mitsubishi🎵
Another great collection. All those household names of the '80s/'90s that are now either long gone or a shadow of their former selves . . . ICL, Ferguson, Mitsubishi, Philips, Olympus, Fuji, Ariston etc. Only Sony still has a significant presence in the market and even then not a patch on what it used to be. The technology market is just so boring now.
The Philips VHS 📼 ad was forward looking in one respect, in that it looked forward to a time when there'd be umpteen channels, but it didn't envisage that by that time the VCR would be outdated technology
I've been looking at 80s Walkmans and headphones today. I'd like a ghetto blaster too. One like radio raheem had in the spike lee film, do the right thing. It's a monster. Extremely hard to find these day's.
Those David Bailey-starring Olympus Trip ads are quite fun (I'm pretty sure you've used at least one other before, Steve - the Phil Daniels one, I think?), but I wonder how many people would recognise him seeing them today? (Or, to be honest, then, though maybe the name drop was enough to clue people in to the joke.)
@@RetroSteveUK They ran for quite a while too, didn't they, so that helps. I think it's really easy to underestimate now how much of an impression and cultural impact adverts could make because there was first one then in the 80s only two commercial channels, and broadcasting ads almost everyone would see because no-one had a phone to look at instead. Absorption was pretty much guaranteed.
@@RetroSteveUK Ariston ad is pretty much a nod too "Tango" a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. [It's on RUclips]
These classic electronic ads bring back memories thx for sharing
The Olympus Trip advert was pure class - so very British!!
They always made a big selling point in shops of having 16 channels on a TV, even when only 4, then eventually 5 were ever made available.
Plus ones for your VHS, 8 bit computer and Sky dish... Still 8 too many though😅
Great them Steve. Some I've never seen before. The Sony Trinitrons were great televisions. Ours lasted for years.
I had a Trinitron portable. Ruined the screen first day I had it by putting hifi speakers either side of it. The magnets permanently warped the screen. 😞
The "...and on and on and Ariston..." voiceover was done by Tim Whitnall, best known to many of a certain vintage as Angelo in CITV's _Mike and Angelo_ .
Ariston ad is pretty much a nod too "Tango" a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. [It's on RUclips]
@7:00 Nintendo Gameboy Robocop theme tune on the Ariston advert
So it is! 😃
Yes, I always loved that fact. There is debate as to whether it was Gameboy, Speccy 128 or C64.
@@RetroSteveUK It's more C64 than Spectrum, but it surprised me at the time that computer game music (and the best track, at that) was being used in an advert.
For my 10th birthday I received a 3 year old Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k + (featured on the Dixons advert). I was chuffed to bits with it. 😃
I got mine (rubber key version) from new in 1984 when I was 10. Best thing my parents ever bought me. I wouldn't be as tech savvy as I am now without that experience.
Always loved the new Sony Brochure coming out.
They made so many unique products.
I have a 16" widescreen Nicam Stereo (rarer than the non Nicam Stereo model) CRT Trinitron here in my Batcave.
I do not think any other manufacturer made one unless JDM only.
🎵Oh we walked at the end of the day, oh we walked when we lock the world away, nothing complicated nothing tricky, just a perfect picture! Don't you wish you had a Mitsubishi, don't you wish you had a Mitsubishi, nothing complicated just a perfect picture, don't you wish you had a Mitsubishi🎵
Another great collection. All those household names of the '80s/'90s that are now either long gone or a shadow of their former selves . . . ICL, Ferguson, Mitsubishi, Philips, Olympus, Fuji, Ariston etc. Only Sony still has a significant presence in the market and even then not a patch on what it used to be. The technology market is just so boring now.
The Philips VHS 📼 ad was forward looking in one respect, in that it looked forward to a time when there'd be umpteen channels, but it didn't envisage that by that time the VCR would be outdated technology
Ironic. 🫤
Ariston ad is pretty much a nod too "Tango" a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. [It's on RUclips]
I've been looking at 80s Walkmans and headphones today.
I'd like a ghetto blaster too. One like radio raheem had in the spike lee film, do the right thing. It's a monster. Extremely hard to find these day's.
Super expensive too, especially in working order.
I nearly bought a JVC RC-M90 from the little Boombox Shop in Brixton's Atlantic Road, but I stupidly choose a PC-55 😭
The Ferguson Designer TV ad. is kind of scary.
Bit of a Doctor Who vibe with the sentient, floating TVs.
16 channels on the Ferguson telly, for 4 tv channels, 1 VHS player, 1 Betamax player, 1 ZX Spectrum... that leaves 9 spare.
Future proofing? Or a sales tactic, maybe.
@@RetroSteveUK Oh definitely a sales tactic. Even the standard 8 channels on a TV at the time was more than enough for most.
John Alderton voicing the Sony ad
Those David Bailey-starring Olympus Trip ads are quite fun (I'm pretty sure you've used at least one other before, Steve - the Phil Daniels one, I think?), but I wonder how many people would recognise him seeing them today? (Or, to be honest, then, though maybe the name drop was enough to clue people in to the joke.)
I think I might have heard people saying 'David Bailey .. who's he?' out in the wild too, so the ads must have had a decent amount of cultural impact.
@@RetroSteveUK They ran for quite a while too, didn't they, so that helps. I think it's really easy to underestimate now how much of an impression and cultural impact adverts could make because there was first one then in the 80s only two commercial channels, and broadcasting ads almost everyone would see because no-one had a phone to look at instead. Absorption was pretty much guaranteed.
Brian Pringle the wedding photographer, my favourite. David Bailey oooz e?
6:00 Anyone recognise the man in the Philips ad played a Bond villain in The Living Daylights? 🤔😉
1:33"Home and outdoor portable use"? Were you expected to lug a telly 📺 outdoors as well?
That's exactly what I thought. 🤣🤣
Maybe posh people did!! ☺
@@museonfilm8919 They'd have got their servants to do it.
Me and my mate have been arguing this for years. Is the music on the Ariston ad from Robocop on the Commodore 64? I say it is.
Btw Robocop Commodore 64 music is available on RUclips. Sounds the exact same to me. He disagrees.
I always thought it was the Spectrum music. Sounds the same as that too.
@@RetroSteveUK Ariston ad is pretty much a nod too "Tango" a 1981 Polish animated short film written and directed by Zbigniew Rybczyński. [It's on RUclips]