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In article <5edhg3$s...@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>,
Steve Hix <fid...@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:
>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.

My pair of Sony SLHF-1000 Beta consumer editing decks have always produced
as good as or better picture then any VHS deck and they can come close
to SVHS quality.  The only better picture I've seen was with my Sony
V5000 Hi-8 camcorder.