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

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From: kim... Greg L. Kimnach
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:00

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In article <330332...@pass.wayne.edu>, m...@pass.wayne.edu says...
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>Paul Patry wrote:
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>> 
>> 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.
>

stop confusing betacam and betamax!  vhs is not superior to betamax (in any of 
their rexpective incarnaions), and it is especially not superior to betacam 
(sp).

stop it!

-- 
regards,
greg
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Greg L. Kimnach
NASA Lewis Research Center
Power Technology Division
216-433-6251
I opted for Betamax, the world for VHS. I for Amiga, the world for IBM clones.
"Do or do not.  There is no try!"  --Yoda.
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From: kim...@lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach)
Subject: Re: VHS versus Betamax (was: Let's unite to destroy Microsoft!)
Date: 1997/02/21
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