Comments on: A Brief History of Defunct Electronics Chains in the Form of Old TV Ads

By: A Brief History of Defunct Electronics Chains in the Form of Old | Wood TV Stand

Sun, 31 May 2009 21:50:23 +0000

[...] A Brief History of Defunct Electronics Chains in the Form of Old Posted by root 13 minutes ago (http://technologizer.com) Debuting at dow stereo video and selling for 8999 the 34 inch wide also when the first high definition tv sets in the country went on brad joined the technologizer community leave a comment for copyright 2008 technologizer inc technologizer is pleased to Discuss | Bury | News | A Brief History of Defunct Electronics Chains in the Form of Old [...]

By: Quand les chaînes deviennent des maillons faibles - Gizmodo - Tant d'amour pour ces fabuleux nouveaux gadgets, c'est surnaturel.

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:48:09 +0000

[...] d’autres Nobody Beats The Wiz, Crazy Eddie ou CompUSA qui mordront un jour la poussière. [Technologizer] swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/hUsXliGhhHU&rel=1&fs=1″, “vvq4920f72f70fac”, [...]

By: Gary Pillon

Gary Pillon — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:39:22 +0000

In Michigan, two strong regional chains went at each other for years.
I was doing sound on Ollie Fretter commercials back in the early ’70s. The successor company, ABC Warehouse, still features the owner, “Gordie”,
At the same time, the Mondry brothers expanded Highland Appliance, hiring Doner advertising to create a quirky, consistantly funny, big-budget style. These ads had contextual tag lines that have lasted, like “Any second now”
and ‘50 watts-per-channel, babycakes”

By: ¿Cómo eran las tiendas de gadgets hace unos años? | CANVAS

¿Cómo eran las tiendas de gadgets hace unos años? | CANVAS — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:00:30 +0000

[...] Technologizer creó una compilación de varios comerciales antiguos de ahora difuntas tiendas, creando un tesoro de principios de los noventa y con sonadas frases como “¡los precios más bajos!, ¡la mejor oferta!,¡ servicio increíble!”, que por supuesto ninguno podía realmente cumplir. [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000

Original San Diego regional chain Dow Stereo which was acquired by Tweeter hosted the USA debut numerous new products. Including “Sony’s first HDTV for the North American market was designed and developed at the Sony Technology Center in Rancho Bernardo. The sets started rolling of the assembly line at Sony de Tijuana Este in Tijuana late last month. Debuting at Dow Stereo/Video and selling for $8,999, the 34-inch wide screen is the industry’s first HDTV to use a picture tube instead of a rear projection system. Sony says the set quadruples the apparent picture density of conventional TV broadcasts. ”

Also, “When the first high-definition TV sets in the country went on sale in San Diego in August at Dow Stereo/Video, Allan Farwell was one of the first in line to plunk down the $5,500 for the 56-inch Panasonic set, which was developed at Panasonic’s research and development center in San Diego and assembled in Tijuana”

By: Top Posts « WordPress.com

Top Posts « WordPress.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:27:53 +0000

[...] A Brief History of Defunct Electronics Chains in the Form of Old TV Ads Today’s news that Circuit City, American’s second-largest electronics retailer, has filed for bankruptcy [...] [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:12:08 +0000

Here in the Seattle Area, we didn’t get many of those – Good Guys arrived here just in time to win a few customers over, then go belly up. Computer City was big, as was CompUSA… Long before BestBuy ventured up here, we had a chain of Future Shop stores. They’re still around in Canada, but the U.S. stores lived a very short, fast lifecycle. I went into their stores a few times, and they just felt really, really sleazy. Never actually bought anything…

By: thespiritdog

thespiritdog — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:07:56 +0000

Brings back fond memories, those Crazy Eddie commercials. If you lived in the New York area back then, you must remember the other electronics store that was kind of in direct competition with Eddie, Battling Barry’s House of Audio.

I can’t remember if Barry had any TV spots or not.

By: John

John — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:21:45 +0000

A small correction: It’s “Fretter,” not “Fretters.”

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:53:58 +0000

What about SUN TV and Appliances, and their subsequent death, rebirth and final demise.