Posted by Bill Vermillion on 08/19/07 00:36

In article <r59gb39pleht5akms7to6jjkskb95id8fp@4ax.com>,
Archimedes' Lever <My Assistant: Zhang Heng> wrote:
>On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:56:32 GMT, glenzabr@xmission.nospam.com (GMAN)
>wrote:
>
>>But beta was NOT ignored by the pro market. It was used and still is for the
>>last few decades by TV stations and pro videographers up until the digital
>>formats started to roll around.

> The pro beta and the consumer beta are two ENTIRELY different animals,
>and the pro is 100% irrelevant to this discussion.

> The consumer beta product was adopted by a niche clientele, at best.

When I bought my Beta - 99% of the sales were Beta - and the RCA
VHS was only introduced a month or so earlier.

And the ED-Beta was sort of a cross between the consumer beta and
the pro-beta.

I used the Beta-SP [metal] tapes in my ED. Resolution was
phenomenal with the test screen [with a Japanese tiger instead of
the Amreican Indian] showed it resovled to about 525 lines. Of
course there was the typical analog noise - but it was VERY low.

And the transport was more like the pro-Betas than the previous
consumer models. It was considered a pro-sumer machine.

I likened it to a slow-speed composite pro-beta. The thing that
really killed that machine was that it came out during the worst
dollar/yen ratio we had ever seen.

That meant the EDV-9500 listed for about $3500.

The only tapes I'd seen that were better were the pro Beta formats
- prior to the digital formats.

Bill


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