TiVo’s Early Ancestor….
Posted by Chuck on 3rd November 2007
Check this out. It’s an actual ad from the Birmingham News November 1977. I found it on one of my favorite history sites, Birmingham Rewound. I can’t imagine there were many families who could afford to shell out a grand for one of these early VCR’s. It was ‘84 or ‘85 before my dad brought one home to my family. I want to say he paid over $400 for it then. It was a lot of money, but it sure was worth it to be able to tape all those movies on HBO. It was the early days of having your own video collection. Good times! Now I don’t even own a VCR and I haven’t since my divorce four and a half years ago. But we got plenty of DVD players. I’m typing on one of them now. Funny how times and technology change. I wonder if, one day, we’ll look back on the TiVo like we do this early VCR ad and reminisce?
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