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Betamax was arguably better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
by toomuchtodo 7mo ago
Betamax was arguably better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotape_format_war
- mbreese 7mo agoArguably better quality, but at the cost of being shorter. In the great trade off of time, size, and quality, I think VHS chose a better combination.
- a96 7mo agoImportantly, it was so short that it was inadequate. Go beats no go every time.
- SoftTalker 7mo agoNot in ways that the market cared about.
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- rapnie 7mo agoIt depends which definition of "better" you use. VHS won the adoption race, so it was better there. While Betamax may have been technologically superior, in hindsight we can say it apparently failed to address other key aspects of the technology adoption lifecycle.
- MBCook 7mo agoWho cares? It couldn’t hold a movie on one tape. Thats what the market ended up selecting for. As soon as renting movies took off Beta lost. When they compromised quality to get there, they were just more expensive. And later S-VHS improved quality anyway.