>>13802170oh boy, somebody is using Beta as example how "the better thing" was pushed aside, again...
Beta MAX was worse product than VHS. While it did have nominally 5% more lines, it had only 1h recording time (the original version meant to compete with VHS), meaning you couldn't fit a single movie on it, which is the entire point of buying a videotape recorder. That's the key reason why it failed. That VHS was better designed and therefore players were simpler and cheaper was a cherry on top.
Beta CAM was specialised thing for professional camera equipment, used different recording method, was much more expensive, you could fit only 30 minutes on a single cassette, but indeed had better quality. That's the one used by studios for decades.
Betamax and Betacam are not the same thing.
I don't even care about either, but this thing exemplifies mid-wit contrarian history factoids more than anything
Like people who know half of the facts, draw the wrong conclusion out of it and then feel smug about being smarter than everyone.
