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Article #66727Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite
From: fid... Steve Hix
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00
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In article 55...@pass.wayne.edu, Michael Edelman <m...@pass.wayne.edu> writes: :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. The BetacamSP results I saw on the last video taping I worked on looked a *lot* better than the best SVHS I've *ever* seen. You might like the check up again on the "no Beta is being used...in TV production" claim.
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From: fid...@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite Date: 1997/02/19 Message-ID: <5edhg3$sac@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> X-Deja-AN: 219720794 References: <330332F8.550B@pass.wayne.edu> Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Reply-To: fid...@Eng.Sun.COM Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt,comp.os.linux.network,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.security.misc,rec.aviation.simulators,comp.sys.palmtops,alt.2600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit