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On 2024-06-28 13:04:41 +0000, Daniel70 said:
> Blueshirt wrote on 27/6/24 9:30 pm:
>> Your Name wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-26 18:26:47 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>> <snip>
>>>> You couldn't watch new episodes of Doctor Who 28 days after
>>>> it was broadcast on BBC1 in 1974, you can now.
>>> 
>>> 1974, no, but in 1976 you could ... if you were rich enough to
>>> buy the then new-fangled home video recorder, and that would
>>> not have been counted in the ridiculously meaningless
>>> 'ratings' nonsense.  :-)
>> 
>> 1976?! We just about had colour TV over here by then! :-)
> 
> Yeap! I brought my Mum a Colour Portable T.V. for Christmas 1975!!
> 
> I brought a (BETA) VCR Late 1982.

1976 was when the first consumer-level video recorder was released in 
Japan, but they were expensive.  :-)