Old UK TV adverts!

[CouncilSpectre]

Originally Posted by CV19

I remember the advert very well, but just going slightly off-topic here, I've never really liked Scotch video tapes. I know the advert claims that each recording is as good as the first, but in terms of archiving, I found that their tapes were very poor and prone to drop-outs on recordings that were barely a couple of years old, even on higher grade tapes. However, I had lots of TDK and Sony tapes and never really had any problems with these, even on recordings made more than a decade ago. However despite that, it's still a great TV ad though.

From memory I used both Scotch and TDK, but I think my 'goto' brands were Maxell and Memorex as they were often the best combo of price vs quality.

Of course none of the others made such memorable ads though.....

[CV19]

Originally Posted by CouncilSpectre

From memory I used both Scotch and TDK, but I think my 'goto' brands were Maxell and Memorex as they were often the best combo of price vs quality.

Of course none of the others made such memorable ads though.....

The best tapes I had were the Sony Pro-X ones which came in a hard case. They were very expensive (I think nearly a tenner each back in the late 80's), but I managed to get a load of them when I was still in camera retailing at that time. I found a photographic supplier which actually stocked them, and I remember getting a stack of them at cost price, which was considerably less than the high street price.

[CrockettandTubbs]

Originally Posted by CouncilSpectre

From memory I used both Scotch and TDK, but I think my 'goto' brands were Maxell and Memorex as they were often the best combo of price vs quality.

Of course none of the others made such memorable ads though.....

Does anyone remember Rickety Bill? As in:

"Remember me? I'm Rickety Bill." (he says something like that, anyway).

I think it was a VHS player looking like a robot, voiced by John Cleese - I can't find it anywhere, however.

Unless I imagined/dreamed it...

Adverts these days though - lots of mugging to the camera, people dancing for no logical reason - just shite!

[CV19]

Originally Posted by CrockettandTubbs

Does anyone remember Rickety Bill? As in:

"Remember me? I'm Rickety Bill." (he says something like that, anyway).

I think it was a VHS player looking like a robot, voiced by John Cleese - I can't find it anywhere, however.

Unless I imagined/dreamed it...

Adverts these days though - lots of mugging to the camera, people dancing for no logical reason - just shite!

I don't know if this is the one you're looking for, but there was a Sony advert John Cleese did which demonstrated a CD player (he did loads of Sony ads over the years), but in this particular one a robot is voiced by him:

Sony CD Player ad - YouTube

[CrockettandTubbs]

That's it

Thanks so much - and I misheard what he said for all these years, it's:

"Ring any bells?"

Could have sworn he said Rickety Bill - as in an old, and past it cd player, etc.