When Did Everyone Get Their First VHS/Betamax Player?

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Originally Posted by Tom Biddle

My first VCR was a Betamax (not a Sony but can't remember the manufacturer at the moment)...silver with a WIRED remote! I used it principally to record rented CED (!) Videodiscs! That was my first movie library! Wow, that was a long time ago (1983, I think).

I think it was this one!