Posted by Archimedes' Lever on 08/01/07 03:47

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:01:20 GMT, Impmon <impmon@digi.mon> wrote:

> BETA and VHS were
>completely different at hardware level and no practical dual format
>deck sold well back then, very pricey.

I do not even think there was even any such thing.

The mechanisms were quite different from each other. The ONLY similarity
was that they were both helically scanned drum devices so that they could
maximize data rate, and use as much of the tape as was available.

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