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Article #66725Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
From: Michael Edelman
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:00
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Paul Patry wrote: > > See if you can find a Television Station that is standardized on VHS. > Like the Mac, Beta is the tool of the professionals. Well, that's just out-and-out false. Professional work went from 2" quad to 1" to Sony U-Matic to (sometimes) VHS and (very occasionally) 8mm. No Beta is being used anywhere in major TV production. It's dead for precisely the reason noted: Sony's unwillingness to license it. While it may have had a technical edge at one point, today's VHS is far superior to the last of the Beta systems marketed. --mike
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