EastEnders

"A portable TV studio, no wonder your president has to be an actor, he has to look good on television".

Funnily enough, today's first Drama episode was shown on the 29th October 1985, only 3 days after the "present day" scenes in the BTTF films are set!

I had a VHS-C camcorder too, though much later, I was using it between 2001 and 2004. I still have all the tapes and the adaptor though! But they've long since been digitised and I've made multiple copies of them, so I don't really need them but don't have the heart to throw them either.

My parents always used Video8.

My aunt had video8, I had the wonder of digitising it all several years back. I still have the box full of those tapes too. Again, no need to keep them, but I don't have the heart to throw them away, especially as my aunt is no longer with us.

Video8 is still used on some older commercial airliners for the IFE system.

I believe this is mentioned in the following video:

On a flight I was on circa 2005, my seat was next to the overhead compartment that had the Hi8 deck in it.

Thomas Cook were using Video8 as late as 2011; it's quite possible they may still be using it on some of their 757s, although they're in the process of retiring these. I believe some of Virgin's older 747s and A340s may still also use it, although most of their fleet is now VOD.

IFE is strictly a long haul thing now though - it's incredibly rare to see anything on a short haul flight largely because the low costs obviously don't do it, and everyone effectively has their personal VOD system anyway - download a few programmes from iPlayer or a couple of episodes of something like Chris Moyles from the Global app and you're sorted.

VHS was used on airliners as well.

I wish they still had the in flight maps on short haul flights though, I always like being able to see where we are and how long's left.

I remember on a flight home from Florida circa 2001, the aircraft we was in had a live (not 3D) moving Ariel image of the ground below. Quite a unique idea i thought. The camera was shut off during landing.

I had that... I think last year on a flight back from the US too. Though during take off and landing the view was from the front of the plane, then switched to the ground shot. Though as it was a night flight over the Atlantic, there wasn't much to see for like 80% of the flight.