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Old 03-16-2007, 11:52 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by crazycoffey
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.....
That was the marketing... JVC put so much $$$ into it that everyone thought VHS was better. Most consumers don't do their research, they just go on what the TV tells them.

Name recognition is HUGE. They knew what VHS was. They didn't know what Beta was.
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