The story goes: BetaMax didn't want pornography on their platform, but VHS allowed it. The porn industry went to VHS and this fact is widely credited with being

The story goes: BetaMax didn't want pornography on their platform, but VHS allowed it. The porn industry went to VHS and this fact is widely credited with being the reason why VHS won the format war. However, this story probably isn't true. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3089/vhs-vs-betamax-how-influential-was-the-pornography-industry-in-the-format-war https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3089/vhs-vs-bet... Hard to say.