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Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!
Until 6 months ago I still had a working beta player in my house.
Television still uses Betamax extensively. While the switch over to DVCPro and other digital formats is ongoing, Beta is still a good and reliable source.
Beta should have won the Beta/VHS war, but JVC (who owned VHS) sunk a ton of money into VHS and public ate it up... whereas Sony (who owned Beta) thought incorrectly that quality would triumph.
Bottom line: Beta > VHS.
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yup, I know it's supposed to be better than VHS, I think the biggest problem as I understood it, People were invested into VHS tapes before many of them started to buy Beta, and as a regular consumer (just watching movies, recording games while the wife had you do other things) the cost to change was more significant than the minor difference in quality.
But I was pretty young and am going more off of what I remember my parents saying.....