catalog 1989 Boombox, Radio Cassette Recorder CD Player, Loudspeakers, Portable Radio World Receiver

[@MrSlipstreem]

56:56 A lot of products were getting rebadged back then. I bought the Philips branded single cassette deck version of this for my mom as a birthday present. It turned out to be a diabolically awful pile of crap. The radio was deaf and it could barely even play a tape at all. I took it back for a refund and bought her something else instead. People might complain less about how terrible modern boomboxes are if they realised just how bad affordable ones were in the 1980s. It's great to see the old catalog though. Thanks for sharing!

[@OLDBUTGOOD]

But Philips didn't excel in boombox production, they invented cassette tapes and compact discs, but in cheap mass production (there's a saying: little money, little life, and poor quality..) and if you wanted superior performance, need you bought Sanyo or JVC, National.

[@MrSlipstreem]

@@OLDBUTGOOD Yes. Production was always their weak point. I'm sure the Philips V2000 video format would have been a much greater success if they could have got them to market sooner and in greater numbers. I live in the UK where our analogue broadcast TV standard was good enough to make Betamax and VHS recordings look very soft by comparison. V2000 was considerably crisper looking and a far more enjoyable viewing experience. I stuck with V2000 until 1986 when I got my first VHS HQ machine that pretty much matched V2000 for picture quality. It's funny looking back on how awful they actually ALL were compared to what we have now.

[@OLDBUTGOOD]

@@MrSlipstreem Correct! "Betamax and VHS recordings look very soft by comparison V2000" The high price of the accessories for the Philips V2000 (because the Dutch did not want to make a discount on quality and low production costs) made buyers give up on the quality of the V2000 and become interested in VHS and Betamax and then the national televisions introduced Betamax equipment in all of the 80s-90s and during this time the Philips V2000 subsequently decreased in popularity. YES! and you are right that they did not invest in the promotion and spread of the Philips format plus that the other competing brands invaded the market with VHS products compatible with all systems (NTSC, PAL, SECAM, MESECAM...) having a great diversity of titles and copyrights purchased (licensees) for the films of the time. Since that period the global market has chosen what is cheaper and of poor quality...

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[@Zickcermacity]

Is this a Japanese catalog? Man, I'm in the Philippines right now and would love a few gently used examples of the portables in this catalog. I was looking at in particular National (what was sold as Panasonic back in the States) at around 57:20 and one thing popped out: Did Nat/Pan think Americans were 'too dumb' to know about short wave? Because most of those models were sold in America, but with only AM/FM tuners! Frustrating, as they were otherwise quality products that would be future-proof today, what with their Aux-In jacks on the back, and today's Blue Tooth receivers that can also be found in cassette form factor. At 57:25 or so, is a compact dual cassette, AM/FM/SW aaaaaand 5 bands of graphic EQ! Probably also had 110/220V switchable power to boot, which is quite useful in a 220-240 nation like the Philippines. That right there shows you don't need a 30lb/14-17kg lead-sinker of a boombox to get a feature-packed package.

[@OLDBUTGOOD]

Hello! This is a catalog from Denmark (Europe) Peter Justesen Company A/S’s assortment contains more than 10,000 items from well known international brands and offers the most comprehensive choice of short and long-term durable goods at highly competitive prices. And National are the ones who founded Panasonic & Technics and sold their products all over the world, not just in the U.S. About shortwave radio frequencies, the most used in the world are FM/AM, that is, most radio stations are on FM/AM and there are multi-band variants but more expensive, some have multi-voltage between 110V for the U.S. and 220V--240V for the others or 100V for Japan. National was also sold in Europe, I even have one tested here that is at 220V bought from Germany: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jmjFiYCmqad2hZo

[@haroldasaleksa9427]

can you dig out similar catalogue for crt tv's?

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[@SJ_new]

Link to download this catalog ?

[@OLDBUTGOOD]

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