BACK to the FUTURE
It was a beauty. And it changed everything. Forever.
The Panasonic Omnivision Player/ Recorder VCR with stereo outputs was big and heavy, and in its day, a luxury beyond Jay Carlson’s wildest dreams.
Of course, he was only about 4 when his parents lugged the Panasonic into the Carlson home in Brookfield, Massachusetts, so just how wild could those dreams have been anyway?
But that’s the thing about dreams, especially the wild ones. Sometimes they swoop in on the wings of new technology and knock you over when you’re just a little guy, when the entire world is a magical VHS tape popped into a VCR allowing stereo sound (!) to rock your world, introducing you to a lifelong love affair with movies.
Wild? You bet. And that was just the beginning, because there was no way Jay Carlson ever saw what would eventually happen to that 4-year-old kid in the next forty years or so. Which makes sense, because, quite frankly, it’s a little incredible to imagine. After all, not many outside of a core of fast-forward-thinking collectors looked at
