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

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From: mor... Morbius
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <330332...@pass.wayne.edu>, Michael Edelman
<m...@pass.wayne.edu> wrote:

> 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

  Beta is used (for certain things) by all the local TV stations in Los
Angeles: KCOP, KTTV, KCAL, etc.

Morbius

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Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
Date: 1997/02/14
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