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davyrocket2 · 29th Jul 2019, 1:55 am

I owned the E3 Amstrad Video phone it seemed a sensible thing to buy it was an eBay listing and cost me £22.00 including postage. I owned it for 2 years and stopped using it because the imaging was very poor at times, it was double images. After a while it may settle down but there seemed to be very little chance of repairing it for a sensible amount of money. I seem to recall that if I had bought 2 of them I could have given one to my mum but I tried to see if she could operate mine but it was too confusing for her.

I was remembering that many years ago whilst watching Thunderbirds on TV and thinking that videophones would one day in the future become a reality. I also remember being offered an Amstrad music centre and turned it down because I would not have been able to play my 78's on it.

29th Jul 2019, 1:55 am	#11
davyrocket2 Pentode Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Westgate On Sea, Kent, UK. Posts: 246	Re: The Amstrad Times. I owned the E3 Amstrad Video phone it seemed a sensible thing to buy it was an eBay listing and cost me £22.00 including postage. I owned it for 2 years and stopped using it because the imaging was very poor at times, it was double images. After a while it may settle down but there seemed to be very little chance of repairing it for a sensible amount of money. I seem to recall that if I had bought 2 of them I could have given one to my mum but I tried to see if she could operate mine but it was too confusing for her. I was remembering that many years ago whilst watching Thunderbirds on TV and thinking that videophones would one day in the future become a reality. I also remember being offered an Amstrad music centre and turned it down because I would not have been able to play my 78's on it.