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Since @Retro Audio Museum is exhibiting a Philips I thought I would post this video from back when they had ambitions in consumer electronics.

 

A really interesting video about "peak Sony" and their 45" Trinitron TV.

 

Fast forward to 8:24 for some footage from inside a U.K. towns music store back in 1992.

 

James' recent comment in the thread about Akihabara made me wonder if BIC Camera was still going. That led me to this video

The only time I went there was 19 years ago. Some things have changed. Some haven't. At least they still have electronics shops in Japan. In the U.K. the electronics section is usually a couple of aisles between the washing machines and the TVs.

 

Loads of good 1980s footage of shops in this. Back when the highlight of a visit to town was going in
HMV, Virgin, Our Price, MVC, Boots, WH Smiths, or in a small town Woolworths.
Of those HMV is the only one still around selling media

 

Philips vs Sony at the launch of the CD in 1983. Again I used Auto-Translate subtitles to understand it.
Some cool shots of them actually making CDs which seemed like something from the future in the 1980s.
Of course by the late 1990s an AOL CD seemed to come through your letterbox or fall out of a computer magazine every week.