Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)

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From: W J Murphy
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <32F92E...@boeing.com>, Chris Beamis
<URL:mailto:christophe...@boeing.com> wrote:
> 
> gmar...@primenet.com wrote:
> > 
> > sew...@netcom.ca (John Savard) wrote:
> > 
> > >Iain Wilkie Logan <iain...@enterprise.net> wrote:
> > 
> > >>Or VHS versus Betamax - a case of a
> > >>poorer technology becoming predominant, which is relatively unusual. 
> they said that technologyies were not sufficiently different to
> influence the system.

OK. Chuck video8 into the argument. It's good enough for the BBC to
use to archive their programs with. Why aren't there home video
recorders using the system (camcorders do). The only Video8 home
machines that even appeared where high end Sony machines.

The reason for the successes are not linked to how good the products
are, it is linked to how easily they can be copied.

Betamax - Sony - copyright
Video8 - Sony - copyright
Apple mac - Apple - copyright

Compact cassette - Philips - public domain
VHS - Philips?/JVC?  - public domain ??
IBM PC - IBM - public domain

How much do companies have to pay Philips in royalties for making
CDs? How much do companies have to pay Sony to MiniDiscs? Which will
succeed in the long run?

I'm not really trying to pick on Sony. It's just that they seem to
come up with a lot of different 'standards' that they keep to
themselves and end up being non-standard.

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From: W J Murphy <wjmu...@enterprise.net>
Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
Date: 1997/02/06
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