Gazza wrote on Mar 2
nd, 2022 at 9:15pm:
They werent in 'widespread' use. Video machines existed - yes. And they were ridiculously expensive - a few months wages. I remember a cousin of mine buying one around 1977 for about £700, which is nuts. We got our first one at Christmas 1981 - by that time, they had come down to 'only' about £450.
Buying videos from a store however for home use was for most people something that was in the future. As far as I'm aware, the Stones didnt release any home videos until 1983 (Lets Spend The Night Together / Stones In The Park). I cant think of any musical artist who was releasing home videos in the 70's - can you?
Look dude, I'm not going around in circles over this. Now you're trying to back me into a corner over fear of not being right about saying things like "you couldn't release a home video because the format didn't exist" We weren't on the topic of how widespread it was. And the beatles and stones were actually releasing super 8 footage back in the 60's for home video use. Outside of that, bootlegs existed period. Handheld camera's everyone used in widespread since 1965, is that not a form of home video? Here's a concert VHS from 1978 since you just had to change the subject.
https://imgur.com/a/oR431ZlWhatever about the price, whatever about the band themselves actually releasing it. Bootlegs were common place, which you're entirely discrediting at this point. The band would commonly re-confiscate this footage if they got caught. Here's bootleggers with super 8 camera's here in this video if you need a visual as to how it worked or something, Nevermind the VHS shit it is entirely off topic now. El Macambo footage CAN exist. What's so hard about admitting it might exist? Guess someone's glass is half empty.
https://youtu.be/dacZjjkUFx8Im nearly tired of even entertaining/teaching this mass display of narcissism/egoism