I’ve got one of them sharp mini disc players sat in drawer, somewhere. Battery parts a bit naf these days. Still works though.
I felt sad when Tandys closed, years back.
N fudge me, Bt cellnet. Remember them flashy antennae adaptions ?
And now I feel old, thanks.
£350 notes for a dvd player, you can get dvd players for cheaper than actual dvd theses days.
Dixon brand matsui tv, god they where garbage.
BT cellnet my first phone when I was 14 and the sharp mini disc player, wow nostalgia!
Ah Minidisc! I thought I was the coolest thing since Mr Whippy when I got one of those.
Sad they died an early death.
I had that Philips Diga mobile phone as my first mobile!
Viva Football!! That was a great game
Those PS1 games would probably now go for considerably more, given the retro game collecting furore.
Ahhhh, memories of V-Rally2 on the PS using that very steering wheel set
The warfdale HiFi would be £740 today, allowing for inflation. The PC would be just over 2 grand.
To be honest these full page electronics adverts were fire, I loved looking through each item as a kid wants this and that knowing my parents would buy me none of them
So much to unpack here. I had also forgotten how relatively expensive tech used to be. The PC up in the top right corner is a complete heap specs wise and yet adjusted for inflation that’s way above today’s cheap PC money. The camcorder is hideously expensive. The only thing I can see that isn’t mad expensive is the Halina APS camera, a format which became obsolete very quickly.
Oh, and I had that same Apollo printer. It’s largely to thank for the reason I still hate printers today.
That Philips phone is very similar to the one I had back in 1999. It was my first ever mobile, and text messages cost 13p each.
The price of technology has hardly moved at all.
I wasn’t around then.
Nice memento of history there.
Who would have thought of all the things that could happen todsy, a Dixons ad would bring on an existential crisis. Man I feel old.
That said, seeing these things now I almost feel that same sense of excitement about them I did in my 20s. Something about old tech I could at the time only dream of affording is weirdly comforting.
I actually worked for dixons at the time of this advert.
With prices like that i see why the PS2 was a big reason why DVD became the format of choice for a good while
I remember wanting to buy a decent size telly back then. So expensive I used radio rentals! Now they practically give em away
25 years ago? So it’s from the early 80s right?
Right?
Dixons were always having a ***SALE*** lol.
Now we no longer have access to Dixons
No portable handheld TV 🙁
Loved those things
Big fan of those “Clearance Bargains” all being like 10% savings at best (except the Sony TV)
My mum bought me that Phillips Diga phone so I could call her from V99 festival as she was convinced I was going to end up dead in a ditch. It only had 2 lines of text on the screen so you had to wait for the text message to scroll by to read it in full and the SIM card was actually credit card sized. Still loved it.
I think we had that Matsui TV, on a swivel stand, in our kitchen at home.
Oh hey! I had that walkman! Still do actually, it’s up in the loft with all my lovingly crafted mixtapes.
Probably a bit too late to check if I took the batteries out though.
You can get a big ol widescreen telly for 300 quid, 899 back in the day for a small screen thats 2ft deep. 1000 for a laptop? If only houses and energy were the same.
No. No it isn’t. It can’t be.
Lalalalalalalalalalalalala
Got thrown out of Dixons in Gloucester for putting my cassette of the spaghetti incident into the car hi-fi display and playing it full blast. Oh yeah.
31 comments
Abes exodus brings back memories haha
I’ve got one of them sharp mini disc players sat in drawer, somewhere. Battery parts a bit naf these days. Still works though.
I felt sad when Tandys closed, years back.
N fudge me, Bt cellnet. Remember them flashy antennae adaptions ?
And now I feel old, thanks.
£350 notes for a dvd player, you can get dvd players for cheaper than actual dvd theses days.
Dixon brand matsui tv, god they where garbage.
BT cellnet my first phone when I was 14 and the sharp mini disc player, wow nostalgia!
Ah Minidisc! I thought I was the coolest thing since Mr Whippy when I got one of those.
Sad they died an early death.
I had that Philips Diga mobile phone as my first mobile!
Viva Football!! That was a great game
Those PS1 games would probably now go for considerably more, given the retro game collecting furore.
Ahhhh, memories of V-Rally2 on the PS using that very steering wheel set
The warfdale HiFi would be £740 today, allowing for inflation. The PC would be just over 2 grand.
To be honest these full page electronics adverts were fire, I loved looking through each item as a kid wants this and that knowing my parents would buy me none of them
So much to unpack here. I had also forgotten how relatively expensive tech used to be. The PC up in the top right corner is a complete heap specs wise and yet adjusted for inflation that’s way above today’s cheap PC money. The camcorder is hideously expensive. The only thing I can see that isn’t mad expensive is the Halina APS camera, a format which became obsolete very quickly.
Oh, and I had that same Apollo printer. It’s largely to thank for the reason I still hate printers today.
That Philips phone is very similar to the one I had back in 1999. It was my first ever mobile, and text messages cost 13p each.
The price of technology has hardly moved at all.
I wasn’t around then.
Nice memento of history there.
Who would have thought of all the things that could happen todsy, a Dixons ad would bring on an existential crisis. Man I feel old.
That said, seeing these things now I almost feel that same sense of excitement about them I did in my 20s. Something about old tech I could at the time only dream of affording is weirdly comforting.
I actually worked for dixons at the time of this advert.
With prices like that i see why the PS2 was a big reason why DVD became the format of choice for a good while
I remember wanting to buy a decent size telly back then. So expensive I used radio rentals!
Now they practically give em away
25 years ago? So it’s from the early 80s right?
Right?
Dixons were always having a ***SALE*** lol.
Now we no longer have access to Dixons
No portable handheld TV 🙁
Loved those things
Big fan of those “Clearance Bargains” all being like 10% savings at best (except the Sony TV)
My mum bought me that Phillips Diga phone so I could call her from V99 festival as she was convinced I was going to end up dead in a ditch. It only had 2 lines of text on the screen so you had to wait for the text message to scroll by to read it in full and the SIM card was actually credit card sized. Still loved it.
I think we had that Matsui TV, on a swivel stand, in our kitchen at home.
Oh hey! I had that walkman! Still do actually, it’s up in the loft with all my lovingly crafted mixtapes.
Probably a bit too late to check if I took the batteries out though.
You can get a big ol widescreen telly for 300 quid, 899 back in the day for a small screen thats 2ft deep. 1000 for a laptop? If only houses and energy were the same.
No. No it isn’t. It can’t be.
Lalalalalalalalalalalalala
Got thrown out of Dixons in Gloucester for putting my cassette of the spaghetti incident into the car hi-fi display and playing it full blast. Oh yeah.