Not true. As recently as 2013 I was using VHS, Betacam, Betamax, and others (DV Cam, DV Mini, occasionally even 16mm film, blah blah) in a commercial role. VH

Not true. As recently as 2013 I was using VHS, Betacam, Betamax, and others (DV Cam, DV Mini, occasionally even 16mm film, blah blah) in a commercial role. VHS was a last resort, because the image was absolutely awful. Even fresh VHS recordings were lower quality than many of our older Betamax recordings. (Side note: We eventually had little choice but to digitally capture the whole stock, so if you were to go to my previous employer, which unfortunately you can't, you would be able to do a side-by-side comparison.)