AH! The Good Old Days

At the time I was very proud to have been one of the first people in my neck of the woods to buy a Beta VCR. It wasn't long before it was near useless because VHS won the format war and Beta became obsolete. That seems so long and so many technologies ago that I do feel real old. And I bet most young people wouldn't have a clue what I'm talking about, yet it was the revolutionary state of the art technology at the time. Sigh.

I don't understand how the Betamax format lost the race.

It was a smaller and more compact cassette and loaded immediately

VHS was huge and ugly and you had to wait for it to load before watching it.

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@imastawka wrote:

I don't understand how the Betamax format lost the race.

 

It was a smaller and more compact cassette and loaded immediately

 

VHS was huge and ugly and you had to wait for it to load before watching it.

 

 

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Never had that prob with our VHS,  put in the tape, hit the play button 'n off it went, no waiting for it to "load"

You'd notice the difference if you had a Betamax, Bushie.

Cant see how? Popped  in the tape n it played straight away, no waiting for it to "load"   

i bought a betamax too, and it was a supirior format

but

they had every other company building VHS machines, they just got outsold.

remember this must have item?

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@davidc4430 wrote:

i bought a betamax too, and it was a supirior format

 

but

 

they had every other company building VHS machines, they just got outsold.

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I looked both of them really couldnt see much difference, when Beta carked it, I was pleased I chose a VHS

Bought a new Blue Ray dvd player earlier this yr, cant see much difference to a "normal" dvd player   ....

I had Beta - it was a superior platform.

Think VHS - in the end gave more choices.

So..............VHS won out. 

It was quality in its day.