Pretty Gay Panasonic Commercial (1986)

[poodtang1]

He looks very "festive"

[RetroCaptain]

Good day

That was the "in style" back then..

now if he was wearing 1 earring & dancing to WHAM,..or Culture Club videos..in a pink t shirt..I'd agree.

NO...Rick Astley had not found his way out of the closet in '86..so don't bring him up.

I do think it's a bit out there to dance in front of the "idiot box" back then,..but the dancing to the New Wave music craze was real strong..dancing alone in public also "out there"..

[bvg83]

love the vid, don't think it's gay, i'm under 30

[brunos3]

Whoa, female stalker much! XD Glad she didn't do the "heavy breathing move" lol

[romance2365]

omg, gay means happy/joyful, it also means homosexual, kids these days try to use the word gay to mean "Stupid" just like they did with "retarded"

[StarFieldsCo]

What a bitch! Whay would she do that?! It's the 80's, let me fuckin dance!!!

[wildzac]

Blatantly gay?

Wow, you have issues, Dahling.

[DSM1G90]

in 1984, I bought my first VHS-FiFi unit - a Magnavox VR8417 and this thing was a workhorse of a VCR unit. In addition of being a VCR, it was also a HiFi audio recorder. You could shut off the video and record 6 hrs of music on one tape. These units uses the dbx sound expansion circuitry along with the analog recording to where the results were close to CD quality on playback. Panasonic invented all of this.

[Watcher3223]

"These units uses the dbx sound expansion circuitry"

DBX was for noise reduction for frequency multiplexing of stereo television broadcasts. It has nothing to do with VHS hi-fi.

"Panasonic invented all of this."

Actually, Sony did accidentally through Beta hi-fi for PAL; PAL Beta could not accommodate hi-fi via frequency multiplexing in the video signal like NTSC Beta could, so depth multiplexing was devised.

Unfortunately, depth multiplexing also works to make hi-fi for VHS and JVC knew it.

[Watcher3223]

@DSM1G90

"in 1984, I bought my first VHS-FiFi unit - a Magnavox VR8417 and this thing was a workhorse of a VCR unit"

Most likely OEMed by Panasonic for North American Philips for the Magnavox brand. It may also have linear stereo with Dolby System type B noise reduction in addition to VHS hi-fi.

If rewind and fast forward operations were very quiet, your VCR may also use twin brushless motors for the reel drive; one motor for each reel instead of one motor with an idler pendulum.

[DSM1G90]

@Watcher3223 Thx for the replies - Yes, the unit also has the linear "Dolby Type B" stereo with a switch on the front to choose between the two sound formats. I remember the 8445 - was about 2 hundred dollars more than my 8417 since it had a lot more buttons and whistles to play with.

[Watcher3223]

@DSM1G90

Your VR8417 uses an idler pendulum for the reel drive.

The VR8445 uses twin brushless motors for the reel drive.

[tennyc]

"me think thou doth protest too much".... its a commercial for a hi fi VCR, relax... lol thanx for posting this, my friend Anna is one of the "Addicted To Love" Girls in the video.

[lild934]

LMAO

[Letsmakeasamich]

I WANT YOU BACK 80'S! COME BACK!!!

[thinazzabird]

Now that she's ahead of her time is she on the Obama administration's tit?

[ekkostar]

Proof that Robert Palmer was EVERYWHERE in the late 1980s!!!

[shirvington18]

Because we all know that Panasonic has a strong gay agenda they are trying to push.

"It was the 80s seriously people."

[pockmarkedbuttocks]

the dude dancin' was totally gay - he had a chick callin' him and he'd rather wear a fagtop wifebeater and dance with himself. GAy ^_^ !

[wildzac]

@pockmarkedbuttocks

Yes, clearly you have a pockmarked buttock literally and figuratively.

[saladcat]

that isn't gay, that's just 80s

geez

[mfreeman7821]

yeah

[LaTelePublica15]

MARICA

[AdvocateChild]

What is gay ? xD

[Kelski1998]

You are absolutly right Boogie. These kids today use the word Gay like we in the 80's used the word awesome. Gimmie the good ol days when being gay meant who you were sleeping with jeez

[felicity4711]

That wasn't that gay. :-(

[123go567]

It was the 80s seriously people.

[damusician]

1986 was the year i was born

[cretufan]

what was so gay about it dumass

[cutebikerwannabe]

Not gay at all!

[arrigomason]

he did so much work in the 80s! that model was all over! fruit of the loom. g q. tv movie with jane symour. whatever happened to him? last i saw him he lived in south beach in the mid 90s.

[totaLybeetLeJuice]

yeah sooo gay especially how the girls trying to call the guy, and the guy has a normal voice

[mycommercials]

you're defending his heterosexuality by the sound of his voice... and not by his incredibly gay dance moves? that's ballsy... that's ballsy

[opedroefeio]

@mycommercials You dont have to be ashmed for being gay. Saying the other ones are gay only demonstrates that you are .

[boogiefever1985]

@totaLybeetLeJuice Totally agree. Nothing gay about this at all, unless it is now gay for guys to talk to their girlfriends on the phone?

[clemdia]

You must be under 30, because that wasn't gay in the 1980s...

[boogiefever1985]

Exactly what I was thinking. I mean kids these days think colours (purple) can be gay. They think your haircut can be gay. They think dance moves can be gay. Didn't anyone ever teach them at school that to be gay you need to have sex with someone of the same gender? None of that in this video...

[mycommercials]

boogiefever1985 is a pretty gay user name

[boogiefever1985]

mycommercials is a pretty shit user name. But it suits you anyway.

[boogiefever1985]

@mycommercials how do you know?

[bazfanv2]

@boogiefever1985 Gay also means your happy. I dont think this world is gay.

[starkid77]

they didn't get a chance on that other line, whoever it was!!

[gmancine]

Robert Palmer rules!