I have 2 cartrivision porns,along with mig jagger rolling stones,Hulk,3 stooges and 25 blank tapes..But have no player..is it really the 1st recorded porn in history?
@cowpokes44 Not the first recorded porn - porn was available on 8mm film for home use long before Cartrivision. But most likely the first porn on any home videotape format.
Not that I know much about it - Cartrivision was long before my time.
@MiHiVidz "A History of the Blue Movie" @ 4:18 (far right). I read that the company had "Deep Throat" on Cartrivision at their head office - dunno if was released, though.
you have any more videos of cartrivson or recodered tapes. back networks earsed a lot of there shows in the day. this was pretty neat pre vhs back in 1972. think my i saw one at my grandmas long ago had the big ass tv and vhs recoder. love to go back and recored the shows of yesteryear.
Anyone know where I can get a clean stereo copy of the music at 2:22 (either online or buying an actual recording?) I know that and the track before that are by Keith Mansfield, who also did the famous "Feature Presentation" trailer music made famous in "Grindhouse".
Still looking for anyone who knows how to fix these things- I have 4 and can't get any of them to work (none will thread the tape). I don't have any money right now, but if anyone wants to do me a big favor....
does any still have that football tape or the microphone do this unit the is going for 45 dollars sealed the microphone is going for 85 dollars and still works. there is very little info on cartivsion. i cant even find vintage tapes or the video camara. i hear some one figured out a way to make the unit seaprted from cartivsion.
@jeffcool78 Most if not all the Cartrivision tapes were destroyed when they started disintegrating from poor manufacture. Your best bet is to take an empty shell and fill it with new 1/2" tape.
@albertusj I have a bunch of the unrewindable rental movies, some are still sealed. Don't know if they play though since I can't get my hands on a working machine.
I am one of the last Cartrivision repair technicians. You must be a technician yourself becasue this demo is about the best I have ever seen a Cartrivision play a pre-recorded tape. No tracking error what so ever! And you can't see the "skip field" effect on this tape because the action is moving too slow.
The music that starts at 2:22 is used in an animated segment on the first "Electric Company" episode, which is available on DVD. I'd also love to get a complete copy of this music!
Just found out it and the track before it are by Keith Mansfield- still can't find the track I'm looking for, but you can hear the track that plays before it on a production music website- just Google Keith Mansfield and you'll find it!
Did anyone notice the show she's recording for her hubby is Jepaordy! Wow, was is must viewing back then too .. You could almost call Cartrivision the "8 track tape of video"
What is amazing is that is probably the only version of that episode of Jeopardy that exists as NBC wiped the master videotapes for almost the entire series.
Yeah, a really dumb move by the Peacock network to basically take a whole generation of game show history and wipe it off the face of the planet just because they didn't want to spring a few bucks for warehouse space. Nobody saw GSN coming I guess..
"While your at your important meeting, your wife can record your TV show for you..."
Ha ha. 1972 and gender roles are still hanging in there. I was 6 at that time.
I do have a Cartrivision tape I got from E-Bay about 2 years ago. Sealed. Not intending to watch it, just as a historical curio. It was the movie "Diamond Head" with Charlton Heston.
I always used to think of video recorders as products of the late-'70s, so I might have been impressed at how early they got a working example, regardless of its limitations.
However, since I found out that Philips had their N1500 out as early as 1972 (i.e. the same year), without- AFAIK- the limitations of Cartrivision, it just makes the latter seem anachronistic and studio-hobbled.
Apparently, you couldn't rewind commercial tapes on your own machine... you had to take them back to the renter, who had a special machine that could rewind commercial tapes. What a PITA contrivance.
You could rewind any commercial tape that you purchased but not one that had been rented. The rewind prevention was purely mechanical and would have been easy to circumvent. The rewind machines were simply the basic transport that had been modified very slightly to prevent the lockout.
Yeah, I think I may have been using "commercial" to mean "rental"; can't remember.
However, even if it was possible to circumvent, it shows that contrived inconveniences and reductions in functionality aren't solely a product of the digital age.
I was working for Sears as a TV service man when the Cartrivision came out. I went to the training class to service the unit and later bought three bare units from the factory for $75.00 each. That was right before they stopped making them. Thought I was the only one that remebered them.
My original, which I still have, was the 6' tall Montgomery Wards Airline model but when CTI went out of business, I bought a half dozen machines new in the box for pennies on the dollar. In this ad, it's interesting that "Blue" was obscured in the adult title, "History of the Blue Movie".
That is if the tape in the cassettes are still good. One of the reasons for Cartrivision's failure were that the tapes, or at least a sizable batch, were prone to premature deterioration.
Most of my cartridges (except for the pre-recorded ones) have better tape than that which came in them originally. I used to buy the empty cartridges in bulk and wind them myself using a tape that was thinner so the cartridge's capacity would be greatly increased but which was far more durable than the original. It seems to me that the capacity was 2 1/2 hours more or less.
I may sell the Montgomery Wards model at some point and I do have a couple "parts machines" that I may also see but currently, no, I do not have any good ones available.
Sound is a little outta sync on this- this clip was taken from Labguysworld dot com so check that out! (He was a little upset that people were putting this on Youtube, though I asked for his permission last year and never heard back from him.)
Does ANYONE have a working unit? I've got 4, 3 don't work and 1 hasn't been checked out yet.
This NEEDS MST3K riffing.
ricarleite 1 month ago
Oh, you're a time machine, all right...
pathetic1 3 months ago
I have 2 cartrivision porns,along with mig jagger rolling stones,Hulk,3 stooges and 25 blank tapes..But have no player..is it really the 1st recorded porn in history?
cowpokes44 5 months ago
@cowpokes44 Not the first recorded porn - porn was available on 8mm film for home use long before Cartrivision. But most likely the first porn on any home videotape format.
Not that I know much about it - Cartrivision was long before my time.
JimmyJunkster 3 months ago
OH MY GOD! THIS LOOKS AWESOME!
Where can I get this dark sorcery that lets me watch any movie I want, when ever I want...in optional stereo?
thatguyontheright1 5 months ago 3
COME A LITTLE CLOSER...
LFWISKOOLreturns 6 months ago
Anybody know if this is Cartrivision?
PenguinTeriyaki 8 months ago
What? No porn?
Begone, Cartivision! You suck!!
MiHiVidz 8 months ago
@MiHiVidz "A History of the Blue Movie" @ 4:18 (far right). I read that the company had "Deep Throat" on Cartrivision at their head office - dunno if was released, though.
JimmyJunkster 5 months ago
@JimmyJunkster The first porn video in History. Imagine how much that might go for at Sotheby's. lol
MiHiVidz 5 months ago
Hello...I'm Cartrivision...I'll slowly steal your soul....
wizard55 9 months ago
Shamelessly bootlegged from labguy's World
videolabguy 9 months ago
"Hello, I am Cartrivision, I would like to watch your children. Hundreds of times, without ever getting tired."
metaxus2 9 months ago
@metaxus2 lmao!
wizard55 9 months ago
@sygo7g Someone said the track is called "Pretty Colours" and it's on the album "Sweet Groove", KPM 1078.
eyeh8nbc 11 months ago
come a little closer....a little closer....yes...thats it...keep coming closer.... freaking creepovision
roadragecafe 1 year ago
"Get your wife to do it!" lmao
disastertruck 1 year ago
you have any more videos of cartrivson or recodered tapes. back networks earsed a lot of there shows in the day. this was pretty neat pre vhs back in 1972. think my i saw one at my grandmas long ago had the big ass tv and vhs recoder. love to go back and recored the shows of yesteryear.
jeffcool78 1 year ago
Anyone know where I can get a clean stereo copy of the music at 2:22 (either online or buying an actual recording?) I know that and the track before that are by Keith Mansfield, who also did the famous "Feature Presentation" trailer music made famous in "Grindhouse".
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
Still looking for anyone who knows how to fix these things- I have 4 and can't get any of them to work (none will thread the tape). I don't have any money right now, but if anyone wants to do me a big favor....
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
does any still have that football tape or the microphone do this unit the is going for 45 dollars sealed the microphone is going for 85 dollars and still works. there is very little info on cartivsion. i cant even find vintage tapes or the video camara. i hear some one figured out a way to make the unit seaprted from cartivsion.
jeffcool78 1 year ago
@jeffcool78 Most if not all the Cartrivision tapes were destroyed when they started disintegrating from poor manufacture. Your best bet is to take an empty shell and fill it with new 1/2" tape.
albertusj 1 year ago
@albertusj I have a bunch of the unrewindable rental movies, some are still sealed. Don't know if they play though since I can't get my hands on a working machine.
eyeh8nbc 11 months ago
"The History of the Blue Movie"??
modspell 1 year ago
@modspell I have that tape! Also have it on DVD- it's quite interesting.
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
3:09
Ah good old fashioned chauvanism lol
madcapoperator 1 year ago
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I am one of the last Cartrivision repair technicians. You must be a technician yourself becasue this demo is about the best I have ever seen a Cartrivision play a pre-recorded tape. No tracking error what so ever! And you can't see the "skip field" effect on this tape because the action is moving too slow.
worldsgreatestride 2 years ago
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worldsgreatestride 2 years ago
You can really notice the skip field effect :)
mego73 2 years ago
this was the Blu Ray of 1972 lol
deckard97 2 years ago 2
Those VCR companies really had you by the balls back then.
KentuckyFriedGunman 2 years ago
Some tapes, the red colored ones, could not be rewounded in a regular machine, you had to send them back to the vendor, as a way to control piracy.
So you can call it Castratedvision as well
Dzwitch 2 years ago
@Dzwitch "piracy" being defined as "watching more than once"... rather than "unauthorised duplication and sale"...
Ever heard of "getting interrupted and having to wind back and rewatch"?
alcockell 4 weeks ago
I am Cartravision! I own you! Mwah ha ha ha ha! :)
KML0224 2 years ago
Clip of Jeopardy @ 3:10?
secondchance1977 2 years ago
0:00-1:00 I am serious, that very music was used in old porn reels :*) don't ask how I know this!!! Who knows the name of the piece?
VideyoJunkei 3 years ago
Is it just me or does the girl at the 2:15 mark look like she's knee-deep in the middle of an ecstasy binge?
therealweaselfish 3 years ago
Great !
Now I understand why Philips VCR 1500/1700 were made in USA.
Does the Cartrivision ones got oil sprayed on the magnetic film ?
CLS2086 3 years ago
Did Cartivision make porn?
sbhathena 3 years ago
4:04 they offered "History of the Blue Movie"
rivest266 3 years ago
I dont often comment more than once, but i am in love with this video.
I want the music used in this documentary for my ipod.
Is it available as production music? It would be nearly impossible to figure out the composer / album details.
shakeyphil 3 years ago
The music that starts at 2:22 is used in an animated segment on the first "Electric Company" episode, which is available on DVD. I'd also love to get a complete copy of this music!
eyeh8nbc 3 years ago
Just found out it and the track before it are by Keith Mansfield- still can't find the track I'm looking for, but you can hear the track that plays before it on a production music website- just Google Keith Mansfield and you'll find it!
eyeh8nbc 1 year ago
0.54 - islamic fundamentalist
shakeyphil 3 years ago
Wow! The pulsing, with-it sound of rock! Can you believe it? I certainly can't! Rock, in my own living room!
atomicthumbsV2 3 years ago
TV Guide: speed racer at 4pm!
oh damn, im 37 years late.
shakeyphil 3 years ago 2
I can see an obvious problem with that camera.
You can only use it in your lounge with a cable running to the refrigerator sized machine by the tv :D
jedw 3 years ago
very nice
saphopoem 3 years ago
Did anyone notice the show she's recording for her hubby is Jepaordy! Wow, was is must viewing back then too .. You could almost call Cartrivision the "8 track tape of video"
joebradio 4 years ago
What is amazing is that is probably the only version of that episode of Jeopardy that exists as NBC wiped the master videotapes for almost the entire series.
storrs19 3 years ago
Yeah, a really dumb move by the Peacock network to basically take a whole generation of game show history and wipe it off the face of the planet just because they didn't want to spring a few bucks for warehouse space. Nobody saw GSN coming I guess..
joebradio 3 years ago
What a great industrial video.
"While your at your important meeting, your wife can record your TV show for you..."
Ha ha. 1972 and gender roles are still hanging in there. I was 6 at that time.
I do have a Cartrivision tape I got from E-Bay about 2 years ago. Sealed. Not intending to watch it, just as a historical curio. It was the movie "Diamond Head" with Charlton Heston.
reluctantpopstar 4 years ago
I always used to think of video recorders as products of the late-'70s, so I might have been impressed at how early they got a working example, regardless of its limitations.
However, since I found out that Philips had their N1500 out as early as 1972 (i.e. the same year), without- AFAIK- the limitations of Cartrivision, it just makes the latter seem anachronistic and studio-hobbled.
NotATube 4 years ago
Apparently, you couldn't rewind commercial tapes on your own machine... you had to take them back to the renter, who had a special machine that could rewind commercial tapes. What a PITA contrivance.
NotATube 4 years ago
You could rewind any commercial tape that you purchased but not one that had been rented. The rewind prevention was purely mechanical and would have been easy to circumvent. The rewind machines were simply the basic transport that had been modified very slightly to prevent the lockout.
SVHome 2 years ago
Yeah, I think I may have been using "commercial" to mean "rental"; can't remember.
However, even if it was possible to circumvent, it shows that contrived inconveniences and reductions in functionality aren't solely a product of the digital age.
NotATube 2 years ago
I was working for Sears as a TV service man when the Cartrivision came out. I went to the training class to service the unit and later bought three bare units from the factory for $75.00 each. That was right before they stopped making them. Thought I was the only one that remebered them.
Hamaround 4 years ago
Is it me or does the door remind me of a newspaper machine..?
PortPowerKS 4 years ago
My original, which I still have, was the 6' tall Montgomery Wards Airline model but when CTI went out of business, I bought a half dozen machines new in the box for pennies on the dollar. In this ad, it's interesting that "Blue" was obscured in the adult title, "History of the Blue Movie".
SVHome 4 years ago
I too bought a number of the cartrivision units when they went out of business in San Jose.
In fact I still have some tapes that i shot that i'd love to get to play.
Have any units for sale?
Allen
GOLDLABELVIDEO 4 years ago
That is if the tape in the cassettes are still good. One of the reasons for Cartrivision's failure were that the tapes, or at least a sizable batch, were prone to premature deterioration.
Of course, there were other factors, too.
Watcher3223 4 years ago
Most of my cartridges (except for the pre-recorded ones) have better tape than that which came in them originally. I used to buy the empty cartridges in bulk and wind them myself using a tape that was thinner so the cartridge's capacity would be greatly increased but which was far more durable than the original. It seems to me that the capacity was 2 1/2 hours more or less.
SVHome 3 years ago
That's cool.
And using superior quality tape that also happened to be thinner would definitely yield advantages over the original product.
Watcher3223 3 years ago
I may sell the Montgomery Wards model at some point and I do have a couple "parts machines" that I may also see but currently, no, I do not have any good ones available.
SVHome 3 years ago
I have that tape- the word 'Blue' is in a different color that didn't show up in the film used here.
eyeh8nbc 3 years ago
Where are the MST3K guys when you need them?
"Television is stupid." --GIR from Invader Zim.
BushidoHacks 4 years ago
Was this a demo tape used at the store?
VideoJunkei 4 years ago
Sound is a little outta sync on this- this clip was taken from Labguysworld dot com so check that out! (He was a little upset that people were putting this on Youtube, though I asked for his permission last year and never heard back from him.)
Does ANYONE have a working unit? I've got 4, 3 don't work and 1 hasn't been checked out yet.
eyeh8cbs 4 years ago
Before VHS and DVD...
randomstuff2007 4 years ago
Wow! I didn't think that some day I'll watch a video from the beta's grandma, he he...
dunkix 4 years ago