When Did Everyone Get Their First VHS/Betamax Player?

[Aussie Bloke]

I am not sure when a VHS VCR entered our household as I was only a child but I would say my parents would of invested in one sometime back in the 80s as I recall we had one back then as I use to watch cartoons on it and Neverending Story movie.

In the early/mid 90s we were donated some unusual early 80s top loader VHS machine, it worked okay to begin with but went completely dodgy by the mid 90s to the point of being unusable, so it was eventually ditched.

I got my first very own VHS machine when I was 18 in 1999, it is a Panasonic NV-SD230, it was a pretty good machine when recording in SP but did a dodgy job recording on TDK tapes in LP in which on playback the sound is muffled. Anyways I still own this deck and still use it sometimes for certain applications.

Since 2002 I have been collecting pre-VHS video recorders because of my interest in recovering lost Aussie programs wiped from TV station archives, particularly our legendary pop show Countdown and have accumulated a variety of video machines such as Philips N1500/N1700 and Grundig SVR-4004 formats, Sony EIAJ format reel-reel VTR, Sony CV format reel-reel VTR, Betamax VCR, U-Matic VCR and more, all can be seen on my vintage video page http://www.troysvintagevideo.741.com/ .