When Did Everyone Get Their First VHS/Betamax Player?

[waltchan]

Originally Posted by shstrang

It was a Mitsubishi all direct drive (mostly silver in color) that I paid about $700 for it at a local mom/pop audio/video store when they still existed. Come to think of it I bought a lot of stuff from that store.

AFter the first year that vcr started to suck bad.

Did you mean to say that your 1984 Mitsubishi VCR stopped working in 1 year? How shocking, but no surprise.