Vintage UK Technology Adverts (Vol.2)
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- Vintage technology & electrical goods adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video. Check out the playlists on my channel page for more vintage ad compilations: / retrosteveuk
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Technics Hi-Fi
00:30 Toshiba Televisions
01:02 Amstrad Hi-Fi Towers
01:33 Oracle Teletext (Cartoon Bulldog)
02:04 Sony Walkman
02:35 British Telecom E-Business
03:06 AOL Connie
03:47 Ever Ready Gold Seal Batteries
04:08 BT In-Phone (I'm in with the In-Phone)
04:49 Kodak Advantix APS Cameras
05:21 Scotch VHS Tapes (Skeleton Moon Landing)
05:52 Memorex Audio & Video Tapes
06:13 Boots Electronics Range
06:44 Sony Stamina Camcorder
07:16 Fujicolor Super G Camera Film
07:26 Data General Office Computers
07:56 Dixons Deals
08:27 Hoover Turbopower
08:48 Panasonic Prism Series Televisions
09:30 BASF Chemicals Product Range
10:01 Sharp View Cam
10:22 Radio Rentals (Brian Conley)
10:53 Scotch VHS Tapes (Skeleton 1966 World Cup)
11:24 one2one Mobile (Vic Reeves)
12:05 Oracle Teletext (Fast Service)
12:36 Vodafone Racal (Kid stuck in car)
13:37 Ferguson Videostar VCR
14:16 Cellnet (John Cleese & Ronnie Corbett) 
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Takes us back to a world that was much more simple, how nice those days were looking back!
Back when Chelsea fc didn't buy Thier titles or cups
@@15-Peter-20 but football was entraining back then
VAR aside, football is probably one of the very few things that has improved since the 70s and 80s.
I lived back then, I don’t remember it being simpler, I will say though it was quieter as there were not as many cars and the speed with which information came was slower and less dense but it was all still there! The worst thing now is how people can get in touch so much more easily, but then, come 4pm my phone and internet are off till 8am the next morning to avoid that!
@@alan6 agreed
On Scotch video tapes, there used to be a lifetime guarantee. In the very early 2000s I sent back all my old Scotch tapes from the 80s saying the quality had degraded. They sent me back replacements but warned me that they had now ceased making them. I was impressed.
That is a great story! 🤣
Impressive that they stuck to the guarantee!
Sony stuff was real quality back then. I still have a Sony Trinitron TV and a cd player that I bought in the mid eighties. Both still work today!
Don't ever let those go!
I have a Trintron TV also
Sony, the one and only!
I'd love to know how many Ford Escort RS Cosworth's there still are out-there. I mean, "Everything they do, is driven by you" (what an advert).
I buy everything Sony, they make top quality products that last forever unlike other brands I've had that fail after a couple years.
Definitely had a thing for Connie from AOL back in the 90's.
A (rich family) friend of mine received a Technics 315 mini system for Christmas. It was the absolute dog’s proverbials and I was SO jealous!
God loves you.
@@adambattersby8934 - Which one? Mankind has invented so many over the years. My favourite is Ganesha.
Those ads were actually interesting and fun. Not annoying crap we have now
Who knew you could buy an Amstrad TS35 not only from Curry’s, Woolworths etc... but also your local electricity board!! 🤷🏻♂️
Alan Sugar sure had every angle covered!!
Or, as they say now, "the electric".
The Electricity Board had shops on the high street selling cookers and and other electrical things.
What i like the most about these technology ads are some of the colour and contrast schemes
which they used to get you more focused on the product.
I think it is this that gives you that advertisement
nostalgic feeling from when you were younger.
Plus some of the music.
I miss the 80's immensely and what an utterly fantastic time to be alive. Many thanks for the uploads they're greatly appreciated.
Far more positive than nowadays and the music was fantastic. Even the ads were far better.
My country was in dictatorship so not really..
I believe that growing up in the 70s and 80s, was the best time to grow up ever. The dull but more social but tech less 70s when kids used their imagination more to have fun and then the 80s...tech arrived and we emerged from the dark ages. Consoles computers with INFINITE selections of games and electronic games such as Firefox. Astro wars. Tron. Scramble and Bigtrak and sooo many many more. A great way to spend your time on a rainy day. Microwaves that cooked food in minutes as apposed to waiting ages for an oven to do the job. Despite the recession, it was the place to be. Thanks for sharing.
@@richhughes7450 Always wanted a Bigtrak, 50 next year, and i still want one...
@@TheChipmunk2008 you can get the copies. Not quite the same as the originals though. I had mine late 70s early 80s and it was the best Christmas present I had as a child. One day I was on the landing and I programmed it to stop at the top of the stairs and turn around but It did not and plummeted down the stairs and the wheels went every where. My dad bodged fixed it but it never worked right. It was so high tech a toy back then.
A solar powered and waterproof Walkman! I missed that one!
I miss the old days , life was a lot more simple .... and so was I 😂
No demented w0ke either and ads were entertaining and funny.
@@maccagrabme What you notice when comparing with ads from then and today is that
every ad we have now has annoying people in them, where as ads from back then was much more focused on the actual sale product!
Brilliant the thought and energy that went in to the old ads compared to what ads are today! That one with her with the awful fringe who does the shampoo ad's just gets right on my T/÷$! Lol
So fun to see how far we’ve come technology wise from when I was a child….and John Cleese in drag! Thanks for the upload.
It makes me wish I had a delorian that went 88 mph 👍😃 I loved growing up in the 80s
@@sharpy5550 Funny enough, not me. Yes, the world seems upside down right now and it would be nice to feel like we live In simpler times. But the fact that you and I can watch these videos and share a dialogue is nothing I thought possible in the 80s! That’s got to account for something.
And I think we like to want to go back to the time when we were kids because we didn’t have any real responsibilities. We just played Star Wars, got dirty and that’s about it. But our parents were living through a lot of the same frustrations we have now; mortgage, ex-wife, raising children, taxes, Russian aggression…
I suggest Steven Pinker’s book the Better Angels of Our Nature for some perspective.
Cheers.
@@losttribe3001 absolutely true mate 👍
The artwork on the packaging for blank VHS tapes brings back some nostalgia.
Sony walkman powered by the sun and waterproof . Im off down rumbelows to get one
Great upload 👍👍
I can still remember attending the trade shows when Sony revealed the Walkman to retailers for the first time, in the years that followed it was Nicam tv's that were the next breakthrough product along with the home pc which back then was something like the Commodore Vic 20 or Spectrum for most people.
Most of the trade-type shows I went to were at Earls Court in London. Mainly home computer & gaming conventions. Used to feel like it was Christmas in July when I went to those! 😁 I remember the Game Boy launching at one of those shows. I never bought one, but there where people everywhere, sitting in corners & leaning against walls, all playing Tetris. Good times!
@@RetroSteveUK Ah yes Tetris, the reason I could never get my parents off my GameBoy after school.
I loved that Vic and Terry adv. That was great. Very fu.
Brilliant for about that and 😁👍
Ah yes, those were the days. Now all the tech adverts we get are about the latest phone or tablet to buy or pre-order.
Steve thank you for a wonderful trip down memory lane, so many memories :)
My pleasure!
in a time when new things blew my mind, now nothing seems inventive
technology moves so fast now its just normal
still got tons of Betamax tapes of tv shows from decades ago : )
Sony C7 was about 700 bangers ffs! lol!
Keep hold of those tapes! They're starting to get really collectable.
Got stuff like boys from the black stuff civvies ?
Married with children tons of music too
I bought an old Betamax few years back just for the fun of it 😂
Omg these bring back so many brilliant memories. Thank you for the upload 😁
I worked for 3M in Dublin in the early eighties when the scotch 3 hour Video tapes arrived at £15.99 Irish pounds each. There cassette tapes, Master range were brilliant as well. 🙂🇮🇪🍀
I recently purchased some new old stock Master II cassettes - they still sound great, and were made to be serviced. (meaning you could take them apart if the tape twisted up!)
The wonderful Viv Stanshall adapting "Terry keeps his clips on", for the Toshiba ad
That young woman in that InPhone advert, looks like Lysette Anthony, who played Wayne's German love, Christa, in the drama, 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'.
Funny you should mention that. My wife and I've been rewatching Auf Wiedersehen Pet this last week or so. Still funny. It's aged really well. We're up to episode 5 of the first series. She's never seen it before and it's really growing on her.
I love this Channel! Nostalgia at it's best.
Excellent as always young man 👍
Good old Vivian Stanshall from the Bonzos on the second ad. A variation of "Terry Keeps his Clips On" for Toshiba.
My advert paradox - fuming when forced to watch 30sec ad on RUclips before a vid... And here I am choosing to watch adverts of old on RUclips.
😆 .. It must be mega frustrating when our old advert compilations are interrupted by modern RUclips ads.
I don’t understand how this channel has so few subs. I’m loving it.
It only started blowing up last December, after I released the Christmas compilation. Only had 500 subs at that point. It's over 6000 now, and steadily growing.
@@RetroSteveUK keep up the good work Steve 👍🇬🇧
What decades are these adverts from?
@@jaykaye7025 Mainly 80s, with a few 70s and 90s thrown in.
@@jaykaye7025 I'd say 80's
Had the Amstrad tower system,my Sony Walkman sport,A Ferguson Videostar 3V30 and a Ferguson TX Nicam to. Those were the best things in my childhood.
thank you for the memories
Back when machines were built to last and life was simple
How was life simple?
Nice one steve!! thank you for the upload dude.
I've still got a load of those Scotch VHS tapes with recordings I did in the 80s. 😂🤣
Scotch's lifetime guarantee, I guess.
Hope they haven't faded away?
Wow! Thank you so much for this compilation. So many memories. A happy new sub!
🙂👍
Two Scotch videotapes adverts in one video not bad
You're welcome! 🤣
Amstrad, Sharp, Panasonic started my obsession with audio and video from a child to present and many thousands of pounds later at age 57 I’m still at it.
So, we change the channel during ad breaks in the 80s but now we watch 15 + minutes of ads for entertainment in the 2020s? LOL
Better times Steve,love it
When buying a piece of Vinyl was a must on a Sat morning with "car wash" pocket money
I still have my fathers Hifi Stereo system,which works very well and the sound is gold !!
Twin Equalizer dials,twin tape deck and Turntable,in a full real wood case.
Remember buying "The Tubes" TV is King,on yellow 7" vinyl. Better days 👍👍👍
Don't ever let that hifi stuff go! A decent tape deck is a rare thing these days. 👍
I wanted one of those tower hifi things in a cabinet so much.
One of my bucket list items is to kick Alan Sugar straight in the plumbs. I bought on tick (12 months) the double cassette deck.. . you will never come across a bigger pile of manure if you tried.. .. . I mean the speaker fronts weren’t attached in any way and the turntable jumped when an insect flew by.
Amazing, subbed 😍
Good on ya! 🙂👍
Some nice 90s adverts as well
I just absolutely love your channel god everything just felt so different then.now the ads are all about funnals cancer and everything else that is just so bloody depressing.im a new subscriber keep up your fabulous channel and a big thank you! peace and love 💛
If you watch itv 3 and gold all the time, the ads are gonna be about dying. It's targeted
@@vaselinikek thank you for your reply.but what do you mean that the ads are targeted?
Still watching at 2.30 in the morning
When did you START!? 😲😂
I was the last person to look upon the last two scotch VHs tapes in my office draw. Tim UK
The skeleton in the Scotch adverts did In fact have a name . His name was Archie but unless you were in the trade you probably wouldn’t know that .
Yeah, I wasn't in the trade. Thanks for the info.
I’m off to Woolworths, I want one of those £199 Amstrad hi fi’s. It’s the capability of being able to tape to tape that got me. 😆
Twin deck cassette players. Couldn't live without 'em! 😁
Ha ha just found your channel" good old algorithms." Used to be a service engineer way way back I had to chuckle when they showed "Amscrap" sorry I ment Amstrad hi fi twin deck .loving the channel
Alan Sugar admitted as much himself. Built to a budget and sold cheap to get them off the shelves.
I bought a Technics stack system in 1984, it cost me £400. A hinged black glass front, dark laminated frame, turntable on the top with a glass lid.).The turntable was wearing out, and played 45's at 33rpm! The twin cassette player started chewing tapes, and sounding sluggish. It had its time, I loved It, but chucked it on a skip we hired last week ( March 2022).
That's really sad. It had a good innings by the sound of it, though. I still have my Technics twin-deck hifi separates cassette deck, with Dolby B and C feature (C was rare) that I bought in the 90s. Still works, albeit a little creaky on the auto-stop. I'm shocked the belts haven't disintegrated, to be honest.
@@RetroSteveUK I'm sad too.I was " keep it/ don't keep it" ....it was placed in the garage, and I just wasn't using it. My wife bought me a Technics CD player to match it in 2003, there was nothing wrong with that, I just got fed-up I suppose. She bought me blue- tooth speakers for Christmas, so I can play music from my phone! I know it's not the same! But I couldn't see me using it anymore.
@@hideouslyugly Rest In Peace ... 😔
"Our product isn't just advanced; it has Digital Chipset Thingywhatsits!"
£29 for a little tapedeck/radio - that's probably still working 40 years later, and will still work at your grandchildrens funerals.
And vacuum-cleaners shown with 'computer graphics' as if they were futuristic military weapons.
When Saab 9-3s and 9-5s were what your Dad was driving to feel like he was flying a J37 Viggen . . . . - of course, of course, *exactly* the same.
Easily pleased weren’t we!
Voiceover on Toshiba Nicam stereo definitely familiar (well-known 70s actor). My recall is fading.
I had a Kodak Advantix APS - might even still have it though it's not been used for years. I remember I had a lot of film cassettes.
Michael Robbins in the Memorex ad.
I think that's Anton Rodgers voicing the boots ad.
Scotch tape ads voiced by Brian Wilde.
Another familiar voice in the final ad - but I can't place his name right now.
I remember when I had an APS camera. Thought it was the bee's knees until I saw the picture quality. Great idea at the time, just sub-par quality.
No zoom or anything - just point and shoot and, yes, poor quality. I still have some prints (the odd few). Most of them were scanned and I have them on the laptop. But they are so, so grainy and the colours were poor too.
The good old days when you had 6 or 7 Electrical shops to choose from. Great video what's next on your list.👍🤔
Now we have almost none
Not sure what's next until I look at the reserves in the folders on my computer. I am working on the next RetroSpectives video though - it'll be looking back at the Galaxy Invader 1000 handheld electronic game.
In answer to your question .. just working on the next video & it's going to be Cars & Transport (Vol.2)
@@RetroSteveUK look forward to that one 👍
10:00 So we have Sharp to thank for inventing the selfie! 🤳
That Connie was cute, as I recall!
Sony Stamina Camcorder commercial is my favorite.
09:30 BASF Chemicals Product Range - by Alan Partridge
Less space, FEWER wires Toshiba.
That John cleese and Ronnie Corbett ad never see that before 😂👍
Yes @karmacorner doing a live on your channel right now it's brilliant Steve👍
Thanks for the heads-up. 👍
@@RetroSteveUK it's ended now but it was such a good fun review really positive and nostalgic x👍
@@mousecharger I just watched it on replay. Had me in stitches when he was watching the farts video! 🤣
I had a National Panasonic Stereo that had a Slide out Record Deck, but shared the same Stylus as the Technics 315 series. I always loved that advert but the Panasonic was as close as a 12 year old could get 😉😂
This was the model I had 🤩 ruclips.net/video/2xLBHC6Zjks/видео.html
That looks PEAK 80s! I love my memories of the various HiFi's I had over the years. If I'd had one of those Panasonics there, it would have been my pride and joy, no doubt.
@@RetroSteveUK it was certainly my pride and joy. I would record my older Brothers Albums and listen to them on long family car journeys on an Awia Personal Cassette Player.
Everyone used to record their favourite programmes off the tv, I could never understand why dvds became so popular
"On my new toshiba" 🤣🤣🤣, I'd forgotten how nicam stereo had been such a big thing back then.
Yeah, the nicam thing .. my first nicam telly, I had it hooked up to my hifi with two 100 watt speakers in my bedroom. Movie nights were awesome!
@@RetroSteveUK Hahaha, i did something similar certainly watching aliens and other such 80s classics through the pioneer lasderdisc was ace
@@RetroSteveUK - I had to make do with the BBC’s ‘Sight & Sound in Concert’ simulcasts, telly sound down, hi-fi radio right up. The only gigs I remember though are Thin Lizzy and Joe Jackson (the latter live from glamorous Hitchin).
NICAM = ‘Near Instantaneously Compounded Audio Multiplex’. Blimey I’m such a geek, why on Earth do I remember that?
There can't be many people that knew what that stood for.
Just to add, I was given a Game boy in its original packaging about 5 years ago. I think it's 1988, and has the Tetrius game wrapped up, and polystyrene inside the box. A slight thumb- break in the packaging. I wonder what it's worth? My young son wanted to play it, but I'm reluctant!
Noo! Buy another to play with but keep that one sealed. They're worth a mint! www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=sealed+gameboy+console&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_Complete=1
Lysette Anthony in the BT ad.
Those Amstrad tower hi-fi systems were cheap as chips. I had one for a while. If you took the back off you could see just how bad the internals were. Mine actually got stolen(!) - so I went out and bought a proper Pioneer system instead. I still have that, - made in Japan - and after 35 yrs its still going strong.
I have a feeling that old Amstrad system of yours wouldn't be working today if you still owned it.
Rerecord not fade away
Dixons...Di Di dixons!
Dic dixons!
Ah NICAM 728.... Near Instantaneous Companded Audio Multiplex, at 728kbps... hehe, the useless stuff i remember :) Had a standalone NICAM decoder in my stereo system hooked in with the tv, VCR, Pace satellite receiever, ... happy days
My first NICAM VHS/TV setup was hooked into my 100w hifi system. It blew my mind! 😄
4:25 just one letter away!!!
Re record not fade away.....I was just singin this add the other day...
You and me both! 🤣
The size of that Sharp Viewcam contraption! And now we don’t give a 2nd thought to doing the same on our phones.📱
I get better quality on my phone too, than any camcorder I've ever owned. Those old camcorders used to cost over a grand, as well!
@@RetroSteveUK I still have a Panasonic M5 full size VHS camcorder. Was given it by my boss in 1988. SD pics just about still stand up OK...just...
I can, you can, we can, Sharp Viewcam - as advertised by Manchester United's Eric Cantona with *that* kung-fu kick at Crystal Palace . . . . . Sharp must have been thrilled.
Dad has about 100 VHS cassettes, full of adverts and TV shows. I really need to digitise that stuff.
Capture devices for VHS to USB are actually quite cheap. I got mine years ago for about £20 and they're really simple to use. It's finding a decent VHS player that might be a challenge.
@@RetroSteveUK And the terrabytes of storage needed to save it all haha!
One thing you never see are laser disc players. Watching a movie on a 12" disc.
Amazing to think that even a low-end smartphone and a set of Bluetooth speakers could do a better job than those Walkmen, portable stereo systems, hi-fi's, camcorders and computers advertised in this video combined!
Not the hi-fi's
@@chriso8485 It depends on the Bluetooth speakers you pair your phone with.
And all with insane bloat and lag and lack of ergonomics or repair ability!
@@SproutyPottedPlant True. But then how many repaired their own camcorders, Hi-Fi, ghetto blasters, Walkmen, etc.? Or indeed got them repaired by a third party outside the warranty period?
@@thefrecklepuny Many of my friends ended up hating cassette tapes - not because they were inferior - but because they purchased cassette decks from Dixons and Argos!!!!
I also remember those Saisho £19.99 knock-off Walkman's - they were utter poo, and gobbled up batteries!!
How technology have changed over the year's
Over the year's what?
The toshiba tv add sounds like Jeremy irons
All these things we couldn't afford because we were skint back in the day!
I wonder if in 20/30 years we'll be watching (or our kids will be watching) the adverts that we now get annoyed by and skip through.
Hard to tell. We didn't have immediately available streaming video back then, so finding our memorable ads is more of a challenge now. In 30 years, who knows!?
The beta max video recorder
Amstrad was named after his children
And the Philips 2000
Simpler but not necessarily better times.
AOL, no wonder we're number 1.. Wot?
Free calculator…. that was the deal closer 😂
Good to Amstrad was way behind even in the 80s
Re-record not fade away, re-record not fade away!
PS. that BT internet thingmybob - did it ever take off?
Remember these home tech names? Pye, Thorn, Granada, Phillips, Matsui (lol), Alba, Mitsubishi, Logik..
Add more!
I had a Saisho twin cassette deck from Dixons. Some of those own-brands were pretty good value. Not the BEST quality, but it served as my main radio cassette system through most of my childhood and into my early teens.
Also Ferguson, which was a brand of Thorn EMI.
@@cricketexplained8526 Oh yeh! I remember that name. Grundig was another one, when Grundig actually meant something quality - before Alba Industries got to it.
You see all that fancy stereo equipment, and its kinda crazy to think that now people just connect their phone to a Bluetooth speaker and play music that way...
I miss proper hifi.
it would be awsome if you could show the dates for the adverts
I did originally plan to feature the dates but the extra research turned out to be way too time consuming - time I don't have, so I made an executive decision to just share the adverts.
Ah the good old days of technology, bought my first colour TV from Dixons it broke down after six months had to lug it all the way back to the shop and it took them three months to fix it.🤬
5:20 If the skeleton is still alive i wonder what he thinks of nowadays HDR~8K h'd be well chuffed
did you know... if you taped a show on a black n white tv... the tape recorded colour?
I wonder if there were ever any B&W VCRs? I suspect not.
@@RetroSteveUK - i found out when my brother was watching the world cup, and i only had a b+w portable to tape my show?
Woolworths, Dixon, Comet. Good grief. 😮
Is that a flux capacitor in the corner?
Yeah it is. 😁
How else we gonna travel back to see these old ads? 😉
If you have it please tell me where I can find:
Cadbury's Fruit and Nuts "Everyone is fruit and nut case"
Volkswagen advert with the girl in the red dress
(your last) Rolo
thanks!
Two of those are on other compilations here. Have a look through the playlist for Sweets & Snacks videos.
2:49 a rather young Simon Cowell..
Does look a bit like him.
Did a solar power Walkman really work ?
I wouldn't have thought so.
Conclusion: Everybody was high in the 80s
Some of us still are. 🤪
Lol that e-business was such a flop 🙄
I can't help thinking some of these have been borrowed from other channels?
Yeah, some of them have. I do a lot of work to improve them, sorting out the picture quality, extracting the audio and fixing the background noise and EQ, standardising the volume levels, layering the audio back over the fixed-up video, re-synchronising the audio and video if there are any lipsync issues, collecting the adverts into curated type and genre collections, and layering them into the TV frame artwork to hide any VHS 'glitches' around the edges. It's a lot of work, on an un-monetised channel, but it's a joy to present for the pleasure of viewers, which is motivation enough to keep doing it. This 'borrowed' nature of the adverts is mentioned in the About section of my channel.
@@RetroSteveUK well said x