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In article <ant06203...@mcmuir.global.co.uk>, Malcolm Muir
<mcm...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <32FA01...@ix.netcom.com>, Chris
><URL:mailto:ct...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> 
>> All of which may be superseded by DVD (maybe, possibly, cross your 
>> fingers) which will eventually require all of us to by a DVD player!
>
>In the early 1980s the VCR market was driven by the rental companies who,
>naturally, went for the cheapest option and so VHS machines predominated.
>I bought a Sony Betamax SLC7-UB in 1982 on merit and it is still going
>strong, with a superb picture and is incredibly easy to program.  Sony
>still service them in this country and manufacture a number of Betamax
>models to sell to the more discerning world outside.
>
>--  
>Malcolm Muir


I had an NEC Beta machine.  I've had several VHS units since and every
time I try to zip to different places on a tape I curse.  Beta's tape
transport mechanism is so superior to VHS it isn't even funny.

I now have a JVC Super VHS unit for which I forked over about $700 a
couple years ago.  It has some features that didn't exist at the time of
my Beta unit (indexing, for instance) but in the most important respects
(image quality, speed, etc.) it is NOT the Beta's superior.

So, do we all remember the quote that 'just because cockroaches outnumber
the humans in New York city does not conotate that cockroaches are a
higher order of life?'

--Richard

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