Granada's TV Rental Stuff

[Humphrey Hacker]

We didn’t rent our TV equipment, but I remember our first top loading Ferguson video recorder - my Dad was a steelworker and in the 1980s was insistent on buying British manufactured home electronics and appliances - regularly had to be sent back to Comet for repairs.

Except that Ferguson VCR (8922 ?) was 100% badge engineered by JVC in Japan

https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vhs.htm

Did anyone use Matsui TV’s etc? They were exclusive to Curry’s/Dixons.

A brand name deliberately concocted to sound Japanese, but actually Turkish made I think. Didn't the company that made the stuff become Vestel, who used to badge lots of stuff, notably the Digihome PVRs that Argos sold in the 00s?

Don’t know about that but they were pretty good.