Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/02/08 00:18

In article <H1Wdj.59588$eY.11427@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net>,
Bogdan Macri <notreal@mail.com> wrote:
>dork wrote:

[snipola ...]


>> note that MOST Beta Ray movies are still on 30GB disks.

>Beta Ray (I'm assuming you're trying to be witty here)... that's
>cool, except for one thing... it does not help your cause,
>especially when you think of BetaMax being supported by one
>hardware manufacturer, just like HD DVD is presently.

Actually BetaMax was supported by many manufacturers when it first
came out, and then dwindled to one.

I've owned Beta machines made by Sony [of course], NEC, and Sanyo.

The NEC had about the finest higg-band Beta I recording - even
better than the Sony - and a far nicer timer mode that included
being able to timer-record from line-inputs, which Sony did later.

And the Sanyo was rebranded with a Radio Shack name on it for
awhile. Of course all the Zenith were rebaded Sony.

There were at least 6 manufacturers of Beta at one time.

When I bought my Beta it had 99% share of the market, while
VHS - which had been on the market in the US being pushed by
RCA was only about 5 month old in terms of marketing.

Just thought I'd point out that there were more than one when it
came to manufacturers. Whwn VHS came out and brought to four
tht total of vidoe formats on sale in the consumer market places,
Quasar dropped the "Great Time Machine" - which had about the most
ungainly cartrdidge I've ever seen with a piggy-back part on top,
and Sanyo dropped their V-cord, bring the ome consumer market to
two.

The other video tape format [ whose name I forget now ] had bowed
out a few years eaelier.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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