Re: Polavision.
I never had one, but I remember them being flogged off cheap by Dixons after it failed to catch on.
Several issues: it was introduced just as home video cameras hit the market. The colour system was additive, meaning large loss of light on projection. The viewer was actually built by Eumig and the failure of the system contributed to their demise.
Supposedly at the system's launch a journalist asked one of the developers whether they were worried about video, "what's that?" Came the reply!
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