Re: Toshiba camcorders

[P3D Don Chaps <dchaps@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, P3D Marvin Jones wrote:

> > The most recent price I'm aware of is ~$5000-6000, if you can find one at all.
> 
> Actually, 3D-TV has what they claim is the "last" Toshiba camcorder (the last
> one except for all the others, I guess) for which they are asking "only"
> $12,000! Public prices over the years have ranged from a low of around $1,000 to
> an average of around $5,000 or $6,000, and have gotten more silly lately. A
> couple of months ago a fellow advertised one in Stereo World for $800 or so; it
> was snatched up immediately. We may never know whether the buyer was the same
> guy who was advertising one in the following issue for $5,000! David Starkman
> says that there may have been as few as 500 cameras produced altogether, and
> certainly no more than about 1000. They were apparently all NTSC units, which is
> the native format of both the US and Japan.
> 
> 
I have a Toshiba for sale. I'd be willing to take considerably less than 
$12,000. ;)

Don
dchaps@xxxxxxx


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