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One interesting thing on Episode 150- Barry and Terry find out that what they thought were VCRs were actually CED video disc players (quite likely swapped out of spite by the gangster whose car they borrowed without permission), and the CED players actually stopped manuacture on the 4th April 1984- the very same day that episode was broadcast.

They were CED Videodisc boxes when they put them in the car in the first place. These things were failing in the market for exactly the reason Terry said at the time; at this point people were primarily buying video player/recorders to record telly, the ability to buy or rent was very much a secondary advantage. 

They were the butt of jokes in the same way that things like Rabbit and BSB would later be.

Amazing coincidence on the timing though!