When Amateur Video Was Young!

Before the days of the great VHS/Beta wars,you had other competitors in the ranks, going at it until each of 'em perished in the great consumer/industrial video war that was still in it's infancy.

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All you need now was to figure out the process, and Philips strove to give that in this demonstration video they gave away with their own format, the Video 2000! Very Euro-friendly so everyone can understand!

Instructional Programming Crap!

For those sick days while withering away in your bedroom!

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Inside/Out

Having lived through that period when stuff like this still find mileage in the 80's, it's fun looking back on these weird pieces of edu-public-TV crap they played during school on PBS stations across the country (before PBS Kids took over). Kinda miss not having a 15 minute piece that ends in a unresolved cliffhanger (since that was reserved for classroom discussion if schools still bother). Thrill to the drama, the action and pathos brought to us by the National Instructional Television (now Agency for Instructional Technology) with additional support from the Exxon Corporation!

Pointless ads from 1977!

From the world I was born into!

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THE OVALTINE STORY

...or "A Girl Named Sandoz"

When Cable TV was AWESOME!

Things your parents might actually tell you about what they watched on cable TV 30 years ago...

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Nickelodeon in it's infancy...





The Disney Channel when it wasn't just obnoxious teenage crap!














The Nashville Network (before it adopted it's "Spike" status)



CBN Cable Network (now ABC Family)

Check at 6:30 for a promo featuring SuperBook and Honey Honey!




When Soviet TV had a break on The Discovery Channel




THE USA CARTOON EXPRESS!!!

















When it used to stood for "Music Television"



When bands like Manowar and REM played on Nick's Livewire!






When HBO took all the DAMN time they needed...

and yet they still went off the air!




When all you had on else on the dial was text-based channels of limited appeal!









And probably one of the best kept achievements for it's time, a look at the QUBE system that was initiated in Columbus, OH






And... your odds & ends...

There, that outta hold them little SOB's!