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Except that VHS was released after Betamax, so second & worse video quality won that time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by thombat 4y ago
Except that VHS was released after Betamax, so second & worse video quality won that time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax
- jhoechtl 4y agoThis IS an urban legend which deserves to die. VHS wasn't of discernible worse picture quality but provided much better usability at the same time.
- NoGravitas 4y agoVHS was of marginally worse picture quality, but for that small trade-off you got the huge benefit of being able to record a feature-length movie on one tape.