In 1989 I got a Casio mini-tv, it was color and had a fantastic picture. I took it to football games to watch the replays. Wound up putting it away at my parents' house because my two-year-old son could not leave it alone. Seventeen years later I was going through a box and found it. Put batteries in it and it still worked, but couldn't get a picture because of digital TV.

Feels weird watching this on a phone

When I first saw a Sony Watchman in a General Mills television ad--around 1984--I wanted one, but certainly couldn't afford one. When I saw Casio's television watch on display in a store window at the local mall, I was impressed... until I later saw in a magazine how big the attached tuner unit was. In 1998, with money to burn I bought a Casio pocket-sized color television... for a mere $50.00, on-sale a local Radio Shack. Despite it's screen being only 2.2" it served me well for many years. Some time later, I bought a digital-compatible pocket television with a much larger screen through eBay. Digital television reception being what is, it didn't serve me as well and saw little use. Now, with smartphones like the one I'm typing this comment on and subscription television apps, and accessories for smartphones like a armband holder that fits my wrist... I can easily watch clear, smooth-streaming television anywhere on a screen far larger than that of any vintage device, just by glancing at my wrist and touching the screen. Looks like I got my T.V.-watch after all!😊

My mother had this one TV with a radio on the side of TV that was portable. It was a black and white screen. I remembered tuning to this one station that played music videos on. That was in our 1982 Ford conversion van. I sat in the back to watched it. My sister usually goes the back of the van to sleep with one of our cats. I was in the middle with the other cat. Both of my parents in front. We had 2 cats back in the early 80’s to the early 90’s. Both cats were red tabby cats.

I miss the 80s....much simpler times....

My mom worked for Sony she got a portable tv for xmass gift, Those good old days.

The Watchman was also a frequent obstacle course prize on Double Dare during its first year (86-87)...back then, what kid wouldn't want a TV they could hold in the palm of their hand?

Wanna go back to the fall of 1985 on an adventure of a lifetime?

Never knew Sinclair sold their TV's in the US.

I have had this TV Watch since 1988, and I wouldn't give it up for any price. It is just a nice collector item and who knows what it will fetch in the years to come. Other than that, it's just going to stay in my family, or sold to a collector when my time is up on earth. My mom got it for me as a Christmas gift in 1988. A man from NY brought it to my town after my mom had searched for one. He said it was a display model in some famous NY store. She paid $150 for it!

It's amazing that it took so long to get to the smartwatch if they were already around in the 80s

I have a pocket tv..someplace. Had it since my wife got it for me around 1991.

I had a Sony Watchman around 1984. It worked well enough for what is was.

80's Gadgets they where Awesome

Watching this on a tablet in late 2020 😂

My grandpa was a truck driver, and he got a Sony WatchMan for Xmas 1986 and thought it was the greatest thing in the world.

Ah, the 80s, when a mobile TV is smaller than a cellphone

I would rather have a tiny tv rather than an apple watch because you cannot watch KZfaq, Netflix, Snapchat on Apple Watch. On a tiny tv you could watch any channel anywhere 24/7

I remember that when I was 10. Man did I want one 👍

I never saw anyone in the u.k with those watches. The first time I saw the watch was in the movie dragnet and I was like how come we don't have them.

So thats where the applewatch came from

Who else miss having a portable and compact TV?

omg i remember my big bro getting the casio calculator watch but i DON'T remember the watch!!!

It's surprising that portable TVs didn't catch on to a greater degree given their convenience. I used to have an walkman that came equipped with an audio only tv tuner and even that was extremely handy.

Back in 1987, when I was 12 years old, I bought a Citizen LCD Pocket TV with a clip-on backlight. The screen was 2.5 inches. I watched it indoors and outdoors. However, it drained my batteries after 3 hours of continuous use. So I used the AC adapter as much as I could. Today that pocket TV, which I really miss, is now technologically obsolete. I now watch TV shows on my Amazon Kindle Fire 8.

Now we have smart watches lol

what in the world!!!!! im a kid of the 80s all i wanted was my mtv. never knew about these watches.

I think they positioned that lady to compensate for her lazy eye

We had this before and I still kinda want it now

All you have to do is switch the antenna to digital

80's Technology Devices

Can't wait to get one

Not even modern smartwatches can do this. I've tried.

Cool retro tech. These days its obsolete.

Little did people know back then that years later that they would be having a computer device called smartwatches on their wrists.

Hey! That's before we watch Netflix via our phones!

Ah good old american memories when stuff was built good and well organized and nothing was fake from China

Wow lcd tech is old

Yeah, and when was the last time you saw ANYBODY using a smart watch? Exactly.

she's the senior tech writer ? like a senior in high school?

Good thing a tiny hand held portable mobile device isn’t going to be released in 2007 called the iPhone one 😮‍💨phew

Somethings simply aren't meant to be that small.

It was great.

"The Japanese " lol

Love her hair!

Would have been nice to know the date this aired. 86? 88? Does anyone know???

Anyone here a TV fanatic?

Today we have Smart Watches the Technology is advancing

Love the comment in the video at 2:00 'The Japanese know exactly how many shopping days there are until Christmas'. Just LOL. Turns out they have calendars in Asia too, eh?

Was Chuck Todd even alive when this tech was featured? I still have a working Watchman, although it's now useless since everything went digital -_-

Only at radio shack...

Anyone else feel creeped out about anything in the 1980s

With those prices ..no wonder I never had one 200 dollars like 600 right now

She watched too much small TV...she cross-eyed

Well I won't tell you how I got my first small tv I was a bad boy sometimes.

If only they knew what would happen...

Well even if you had one of those old tv watches today, and it actually still worked, you couldn't watch tv on it because of the switch to digital. Those would've only picked up analog tv.

I miss when we had these smart Japanese keeping us on our toes in biz warz

Old people really act like they dont know how things work

Is orange girl blind? Why isn't she looking at the camera and communicating to the audience? o_0

Mostly landscape screens too.

the lady in the beginning and end look like Phil Swift

The problem was the litium

Is she cross-eyed?

1980 Ice watch

Does that watch phone have picture in picture? If it doesn’t it’s no good to me.

The crosseyed chick is cute

now if only they had the cell phones back then that would of been something

Susan Moody seemed pretty Moody concerning her husbands TV addiction... I would like an update please NBC. Did this couple stay together long enough to appreciate the shared joy of a front-loading VHS or did they falter during the top-loading Betamax era? If they are both reading this comment on a 60" smart-TV I shall weep with joy... though I would like to take this opportunity to remind Mr Moody that it wouldn't hurt him to do the dishes occasionally.

Why do I feel weird when I look at the reporter/host eyes? Her eyes look weird or something.

Who is she lookin at?

I'm surprised the TV watch didn't last as there was NO such innovation of it really until the 2010s aka the smart watch.

Oh look, something on NBC that wasn't fake news.

Lazy eye

you know i wanted to watch an old news cast... not some lady chiming in... Kinda takes the nostalgia out of it

She crossed eyed

Is that ser barristan?

Aahhh????

Where’s the crack? Or heroine? Didn’t see in this video

Why y’all got that crossed eyed woman on there?? Lol

boring

The first Apple Watch