If he is 38, then, according to this, his parents had a VCR sometime between 1979 and 1982. VCRs were not cheap back then.
You’re right, VCRs cost about $800-1,000 bucks back then.
Apparently his mom was working 3 jobs to keep them up to their elbows in high-end electronics.
"Apparently his mom was working 3 jobs to keep them up to their elbows in high-end electronics."
LOL! I wonder if they a big screen TV and if they had to pawn that...
Which was probably a Betamax anyway. They were wildly popular in the late 1970's, up to 1985 when consumers dumped their Betamax VCR's in favor of the wildly popular Sony VHS machines.
I remember. I had a JVC VCR that I paid $1000 for about 1981-82. Even after it quit working, I kept it in the garage for years, because I couldn't bear to throw away something that cost that much. After sending a few $1500 computers to the scrap heap, I got used to the idea and dumped the JVC. It's all relative I suppose.