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IcyPeas

(21,899 posts) Tue Dec 14, 2021, 02:14 PM Dec 2021

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1963 Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog: Ampex Entertainment Center - $30,000.

1963 Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog:

— Ampex Entertainment Center, which includes the first home videotape television recorder.

‘Record TV broadcasts automatically when you are away from home.’

Price: $30,000

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1963 Neiman Marcus Christmas Catalog: Ampex Entertainment Center - $30,000. (Original Post) IcyPeas Dec 2021 OP

wasn't that about the price of a new home back then? DBoon Dec 2021 #1

$272,498 in today's dollars. ZZenith Dec 2021 #2

Wealthy "gentlemen" didn't buy these to record ordinary television shows. hunter Dec 2021 #3

DBoon

(22,395 posts)

1. wasn't that about the price of a new home back then?

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 02:25 PM

Dec 2021

ZZenith

(4,125 posts)

2. $272,498 in today's dollars.

Reply to DBoon (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 14, 2021, 03:22 PM

Dec 2021

Wonder what my iPhone would have been worth back then. Pretty much does everything that entertainment center did.

hunter

(38,322 posts)

3. Wealthy "gentlemen" didn't buy these to record ordinary television shows.

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Wed Dec 15, 2021, 11:35 AM

Dec 2021

Advertisements for the system feature a guy aiming his camera at a model whose clothes are about to fall off.

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