Posted by Allan on 04/06/06 04:29

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 21:16:02 -0400, "bobukcat"
<bobukcat@killspam.fuse.net> wrote:


>I personally believe that Sony lost the video cassette war because of the
>longer available recording time that VHS provided with a long tape and the
>slowest speed (8 hours versus 6 for Beta if IIRC).

Yeah... the numbers of T-180's sold decided the VHS/Beta war.

Good lord.






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