VHS won when the porno industry decided to release all their product in
that format.
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On 4/14/2014 9:31 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
> Your suspicions are correct. (In the interest of accuracy, VCR is
> the term for the overall tech. VideoCassette Recorder. The two
> standards in the consumer field were Betamax and VHS).
>
> JVC licensed the crap out of VHS to anybody with a checkbook. Sony
> only licensed to I believe 2 other companies.
>
>
> Paul Braun Certified Music Junkie
>
> "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St.
> Hubbins
>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Berthold
> Auerbach
>
>> On Apr 14, 2014, at 9:15, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I suspect that was because everyone bought into the VCR system
>> instead - perhaps the VCR patent holders were doing a Microsoft
>> approach and damn near giving it away to capture the market?
>> Betamax hung in for while here and then gracelessly submerged,
>> except in ENG, etc., where they didn't mind paying for the
>> advantages. How's the 8-track stereo working out for you? :-)
>> Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.soultheft.com
>>
>> Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium: revised edition -
>> http://blur.by/19Hb8or The TLR Compendium http://blur.by/1eDpqN7
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 14/04/2014, at 12:25 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, the Betamax was the best system and I had an expensive
>>> Betamax player. But because Sony was so proprietary with their
>>> system, it got to the point that, when I wanted to rent a movie,
>>> it was only available in VCR. So there I was with, essentially,
>>> an expensive door stop.
>>
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