80s commercials [1984]

[Manimal347]

$200? I own its big brother, the C60, and I guess that model must have been more like $350. Eeks! But, 6.5" woofers, cone tweets, 5 watts per channel, Dolby + logic controls, and pretty sensitive speakers. It might look dorky over the shoulder, but one can seriously hear it from a block away. Made in Japan and weighs almost twenty pounds.

[albear972]

Who keeps a 13 inch TV in their living room?

[910364]

Shit we had same model beta here in australia

[notascrub2002]

i wish i could go back in time and bring my ipod touch and my blackberry tour and my 52 inch lcd tv with a built in dvd player and my bluray player and my computer and laptop wow the people would be so amazed!! oh and take my 94 chrysler and 2010 mazda 3

[szashnia]

Almost no use of CGI graphics, so advertisers had to be somewhat honest. Today most advertisements are just flashy shiney rollercoaster rides using computer graphics. Another reason to stop watching TV!

[Liquadia]

@szashnia well i cant agree more I hate TV it fuckin sucks unless im learning something by watching national Geographic, discovery, etc. My tv is on my wall and not connected to an arial i disagree with paying for a tv license in the uk £120 a yr fook that

[ligomi]

hahah go to a garage sale now and i bet you could get that radio and vcr for 5 bucks for both,hahaha good times

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

yeh you can it is called ebay so

you can get them even cheaper

for half of the price value but paypal

i required to get items from ebay.

frankie smales

(retro tv advert fan)

[ligomi]

......go away

[FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0]

oh by the way i was not being funny

i was making an valid statement

thats all

frankie smales

(retro tv advert fan)

[Laveticus]

"Buy MY CARS!! I need my BLOW!!!"

When it got to the Nivea commercial, I couldn't stop laughing!!

Except the last commercial wasn't as funny.

[alinkyng]

Edmontonian commercials cirica '84 awsome

[fluffysue]

God I had no idea how much electronics cost back then. Of course they lasted longer, too.

[terminalbooboo]

Aah -- the $700 VCR, those were the days

[rockergirl83]

Betamax!  Oh lord!

[streetcarjay]

It's not Kraft Cheese and Macaroni. It's Kraft Dinner. Get it right!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rockergirl83]

lmao

[walesy85]

5 band graphic equalizer!! wow where can i get one! lol XD

[MuscleJacker]

The woman at 1.35 had her Nivea Hands chopped off after she was convicted of shoplifting in Saudi Arabia in 1992.

[stevenrf69]

who was this woman & how do u know this happened?

[derekmimi]

no way??? seriously??? is that for real, or was it made up?

[underdrifter]

LMFAO I'll bet those suckers who spent 549.88 on that beta feel good right about now

[ShogunZX]

Well, back then it was state of the art.

Hell I remember when DVD players were frikkon expensive.

[moosewelch]

In the broadcast industry Betamax tapes were standard until the revolution to hard-drive about 5 years ago. It shocked me.. but, I understood why.. the tape was wider... better video quality than VHS.. but, on the consumer end VHS won out instead.

[Watcher3223]

The broadcast industry never used Betamax.

They did, however, use Betacam, which was based on Betamax, but that's still a different format in enough ways that they are not compatible.

A Betacam cassette is mechanically compatible with a Betamax VCR, but that's about it.

To give you an example, an L-750 cassette gives you three hours on Betamax, but only 30 minutes on Betacam.

[bromatt75]

That boombox would have been the bomb back in the day...And Only 199.00 what a bargain

[derryk1]

It's funny how you never forget these old commercials even after 23 or more years. Seems like yesterday when they were new.

[acirluster]

"Tell 'em the Chucker sent ya!"

[miamivicepastels83]

199.97 for that nifty stereo that you can now buy in any thrift store for 3 dollars...let this be a warning to all people that are rushing out to buy overpriced 'iphones'...

[zintekjunkbox]

Did you all notice, by the way, that one of the kids in the Mac and Cheese commercial is "Steve Urkle"??? hahaha

[ShogunZX]

OH MY GOD THAT IS HIM!!!

[fluffysue]

Is it really? I would never have guessed that.

I remember seeing this commercial when it ran. Now I feel old. lol

[idahopotato99]

I was born that year

[Stel987]

Amazing electronics

[rosario508]

Please tell me that Big John is now deceased!!