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In <ant06220...@wdwoods.demon.co.uk> David Woods
<da...@wdwoods.demon.co.uk> writes: 

>I think you are confusing Betamax and Betacam here. The broadcast
>industry uses Betacam SP. Except for the ability to but a Betacam
>cassette in a Betamax machine and it will record and playback, the two
>are utterly different in EVERY way. They are two different formats.
>
>Betamax was a good format. Way better than VHS. But not as good as
>V2000. (comparing contemporary formats circa 1982)
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Well David ... so I exagerated. I'm not confused, just generalizing.
When VHS came out we ran an evaluation of the then Betamax vs VHS and
Beta won by miles and miles. The VHS suffered greatly from cartooning
... it had edges but no detail. VHS is now quite a bit better than it
was to start with ... mainly through competitive practices. Beta is
almost gone (but not forgotten) ... which is roughly what's happening
to Microsoft's competitors ... which afterall was the point of this
original thread anyway. I'll give up Beta when my last machine dies
just like I gave up Apple and OS/2. We are all doomed to trek the same
path into oblivion.