Beta - Video Formats Part 3 - Cinemassacre.com

[nottheduck1]

Beta was awesome, the movie cameras were just one piece and at the time the VHS cameras had a seperate suitcase piece or something. I burrowed mine from my dad and made a movie before James ever made one called tales from the batcave with my friend. I wish I progressed like he did though, I became a big failure and he became a God. Thats okay I like watching his stuff its real good

[mrbluswirl]

1. Those little knobs were for tuning

2.There was also another format at the time called V2000

[Fredwilson45]

Dudeman I'm thirteen and I still watch VHS

[UT3MONTAGE]

@Fredwilson45 same, I'm 18 and I have around 50 vhs tapes in my room which I watch from time to time

[TyJensenable]

VHS kicking Beta's ass was funny and I remember VHS-C.

[shinobizach89]

the easiest way to describe video tapes is this..Be Kind Please Rewind

[groovymoustach]

i swear james has every version of it's a mad mad mad mad world :P and 1:19 was fucking. hilarious.

[ghostbuster56]

Haha these videos are so entertaining and hes only talking about video formats lol. James you need your own TV show seriously, you could be on HBO or Showtime that way you wont get edited.

[Annihilator1111]

i still have 2 VHS players in my room and another one

[zeonwaber]

i rember the small transforming cassete tapes. my daddy uses it becuase he has his wedding video on it still and baby stuff.

[InABox1985]

I wonder if any one makes a beta/dvd combo.

[willku9000]

Soundwave VHS

Also FTW

[willku9000]

VHS/BETA fight FTW

[IQ567891234]

i actually had a turbo speed vhs rewinder

[hoover4311]

I totally want to see his college video

[FrankHoboMaster]

I actually had a VHSc and you reminded of them and I just found some of my old home movies. Thanks!

[Keeltsies1000]

that beta tapes let me remind to that small tapes that go into video camera's

[courtrightjcorg]

I wondered if this format was still being used in the TV Industry. It is still being used in TV and can record HD. it's called HDCAM.

[AshCosgrove]

Oh Nerd, you be wrong. I always use to make home movies with VHS-C. Ah, the good ol days.

[guy27677]

i got offended when he said no one uses casset tapes exept for nut cases and im watching one now im watching this as it rewinds

[guy27677]

Beta Bitch

[animekid200]

VHS only won out through Marketing and exclusivity deals, Betamax was superior.

Similar to what was attempted with HD DVD, inferior format, tried to win through marketing and exclusivity deals.

[roundhousekicker88]

I found a beta player and a whole bunch of tapes in my grandad's room after he died. There were about 50 tapes, and they were all porn :|

[legosemmeess]

@roundhousekicker88 srsly?

[OverruledDood]

@roundhousekicker88 your grandpa must've been amazing.

[ilikepieism]

i still have a shoebox full of old pokemon videos :D

[MPD070395]

Are you married?

[cubefreak123]

@MPD070395 A wedding ring tends to indicate that. lol

[GruntKing503]

I wanna see the commercial you made

[NinjaDag1]

The little screws under the channel puttons were to tune in the channels. If you wanted to record anything from tv. i remember i had a vhs recorder that looked quite similar

[Theriot6592]

I wanna see James' commercial!

[phcopathicfyed]

I remember BETA from an episode in Cowboy Bebop.

[Lexor888]

*sigh* remember the good old times when video stores charged you for not having rewinded the tape? *haha*

[Brandon999LFC]

Hes got all kinds of old shit in his house! Not just old consoles I mean I can understand collecting older game consoles but not old movie format players

[pokeplayerHQ]

Note to anyone who dares to get into the Beta format, the player alone will set you back a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. Yeah, it's that rare.

[manice08]

Im in college for Digital Media Tec. its amazing to see how many news stations still use Beta. they just dont have the money to upgrade at all

[hassmann2000]

VHSC OH YEAH!

[noffgrout]

those little knobs and switches on the bottom right are for tracking.

[0111Daniel]

Nice review! Didn't know there is a third version also... Or was, whatever!

[SuperDevolution]

I still watch VHS. I always buy VCR/DVD Combo players for the convenience.

[gniknus11]

It's soundwave bitchs I lol so hard when he said that

[FreudRulz]

Askin' for a Beta player and movies for my bday bitches!

[baycrum267]

Beta's like a Beta Fish and VHS is like a Shark.

[nozzk]

I had a TV with those yellow dials back in the day. U tune each station manually by twisting around the corresponding dial and observing the yellow arrow. It was difficult enough to do with my 10yo fingers, don't think I'd manage it with big 30yo fingers

[Ese1Pac]

James likes to blaze it... he's giving us secret messages... i mean, look at how long the video is :o

[VideoMasher3000]

why does ir seem like on everyone of his videos, irate gamer is featured in the right

[NationalVideoWatcher]

I bet they brought out DVD just so that you had to repurchase your entire VHS collection. And what really annoys me is that there are still movies available on VHS only! :D

[Riddler95]

When DVD launched in 1997 it had major improvements in Picture/Sound Quality over VHS.

The videotape inside a VHS Tape gets thinner every time you play them, but you probably gotta play the tape over and over again.

The only VHS tapes I kept were the Disney Movies and The Star Wars Trilogy. Some of my Disney VHS Tapes are a little over 20 years now and they still play perfect.

[NationalVideoWatcher]

@Riddler95 My VCR has been eating all mine :|

[yojoecola]

those yellow dealies on the beta deck are for tuning in TV stations

[zehawk]

@yojoecola LOL, that was my guess 'til your answer came up.

[chootastic]

We had Beta in school. I remember, and it was only the science dept, who wanted to show us really old stuff they'd recorded

[josehtd]

"...like a vcr". Dude, it is a vcr, what did you expect?

[icovada]

The things at 2:52 are the controls to tune the various channels. One control per channel. That's the analogic way!

[logalogalog]

Major Nostalgia

[deadguy718]

127 people wanted to watch the blank tape :/

[6425gorda]

@deadguy718 stupid attempt of getting thumbs up (dont say anything if you werent trying to get thumbs up

[dinokiller2506]

@6425gorda thumbs up for trying to get thumbs up

[eli89ki]

what was the commercial you did?!

[Jakkinator45]

those controls tune the tuner to TV signals

the dials change the frequency

the knobs change the band

not sure about the triangle things

[TheNewFormula]

Lol, at my school we are still using betacam/betamax for studio recordings (im studying television) and it is not because we are poor here in sweden or something, its because it is so fucking awesome with the old fashion, analog systems!

[localhbci]

Those little yellow pots and switches are indeed to tune the individual channel slots (many older TVs and VCRs that had this type of setup came with interchangeable channel numbers that could be placed in the slots once tuned). Most likely this unit is not cable-ready, either - standard NTSC VHF/UHF.

[ThisNameIsNotProfane]

Oh wow. The VHSC adapter brings back some memories...

[ThePianoPhenomenon]

I still have a Sony Betamax even today and it works well, Its always special to me cause I used to record hours n hours of tom n jerry during my childhood, lol. I think even in the early 90s they used to release tons of movies on the Beta but pretty soon it died out.

[bo3abd96]

why is he wearing a ring? is he married or somthing?

[AceofSpadesau]

Under the channel buttons the rotary dials are used to tune in channels. my granny still has a couple of these packed away..

[GlenXD]

Its SONY!!!!

[bleached128]

I'm really sad my VHS of back to the future got stuck and now it doesn't work

[HedgehogStudios1]

VHSC is no longer sold ever since harddrive cameras took over

[ABoredGreaser]

I still watch VHS, it's far better than dvd. And if you're watching Back To The Future. You HAVE to do it on VHS it just feels wrong any other way.

[Pgaither84]

The short answer as to why VHS won over beta? Porn.

[velvetravyn]

The area under the channel buttons looks like knobs that you would use to assign a particular tv channel to the buttons above.

[MultiTwigs]

1:20 MM MM YEAH FUCK YOU UP

[l337ness555]

I have an assload of beta movies...

[mangoshakess]

beta is still used a lot for tv. crazy.

[KaiokenKaro]

why is the word dracula written like that was dracula a hippie or something

[TriiTonExiiLe]

i used to have one of those extender thingies and watched myself break a pinata

[VesusSheist]

I still have my Betamax. It had smaller cartridges than VHS and it was quieter. A far superior format that just didn't catch on like VHS did.

[ThisDudeAgain]

"Yeah, it's like here's beta right here, and then VHS came in all like AR! ARR! AR! FUCK YOU UP! MM!"

[twistedyogert]

sounds like a microwave mixed with a V-8

[Plingio]

@twistedyogert The Nerd would be proud of the simile.

[melis256]

lol, I too have a VHSc tape recorder with lots of tapes to spare... But a lot of the tapes (including my VHS) have gotten garbled by maybe cosmic radiation, solar flares or random geomagnetic anomalies.

[keyanage]

someone I knew got their beta tape player stolen from their house & the robbers returned it the next day lol

[Tigerfly59]

Up until this year my high school's broadcast class had to use though VHS-C's to shoot outside footage with until this year when they finally upgraded to digital.

[Chaosscouter137]

When VHS dies, can you explain what VHS is please?

[MultiRyan1981]

i had that same machine growing up and those dials under the channel select where to tune in higher channels it came with a numbered sticker you still only had ten choices but you could choose the top channels you would watch or record

[AIphaDog]

Ha ha I still watch VHS as well

[LivingInTheLimeligh7]

The beta player looks like a microwave XD

[guanjon]

I've heard Beta has better quality than VHS, but VHS production was a lot cheaper.

[MrExpendableJr]

1:20 i laughed so damn hard

[Airboy15]

This is like Blu-ray for tape!

[IrelandRaven]

i had a vhs c camera that i bought just about 7 years ago

[Flippy827]

lol i still watch movies on vhs and i still have a video cam. that uses vhsc

[0takuMetalheadGamer]

@Flippy827 I wish i could do that, my mom got rid of the tapes since the VHS player broke

[Flippy827]

@0takuMetalheadGamer :( how much tapes did u have?

[0takuMetalheadGamer]

@Flippy827 Wasnt that much i think, about 20 to 30. it was a long time ago

[julsmul]

420 ftw

[SAGEBOT500]

I still have a video camera that uses VHS-C tapes! I never had the transforming adapter though, I had to plug the camera into the TV with RCA cables to watch them.

[thesman32]

those little yellowy things under the channel selectors were for tuning the channels in so you could record of tv or another beta/vhs player but vhs were a nightmare for taping of beta cos thay had alot of frequency and interference problems.

hope this helps

[youtoubakias]

I had a video camera with an special tape like this! nice review again james,i love your shows.

[wassup986]

The vampire on the cover of the Dracula movie at 0:49 looks a lot like James himself!

[DoverBroadcasting]

2:53

No, I just think your player is broken.

[SnarlyCharly44]

VHS beat the shit out of beta :D

[lykins8]

hehehe i own a empire strikes back beta that i accidentally bought at a goodwill. thought it was a vhs then I learned what a beta was lol

[PMDX03]

I've got to find that commercial.

[zCopyCatz]

lol Soundwave ur turly a Nerd

[DrMR2002]

I guess I am a "nutcase" to, due to still use my beta machine!! But was a better format then VHS by far, when it comes to picture quality, VHS only made it due to pornography. Adult content was not available on Betamax (Sony would not allow it) while it was becoming readily available on VHS. And the longer record time on VHS, which means full movies, by the time sony cameout with beta II, which held more then 1 hour, most rental store stocked VHS, so it what killed the beta format

[14rock9]

yeah VHS was like "YEAH BETA! FUCK YOU UP!"

[linkfan770]

i still have a vhs camera that recorder to those little baby tapes, though mine looked like audio cassettes

[EDDIE19971]

Its SOUNDWAVE!!! ROFLMAO 4:06

[fuseavk]

YEA A BETAMAX!! lol..i used to watch back to the future/project x and bachelor party on that all the time!!

[RikDaPrik]

Those little yellow things under the channel buttons are for tuning in your stations. You would turn them to fine tune the reception of the channel.

[vigo894]

There's an epsode of Cowboy Bebop where the main characters scour the ruins of an Earth city in search of a Beta unit. And go through all kinds of misadventures in getting it.

[Riddler95]

You collect VHS Tapes?

I've been to a Thrift Store, and Value VIllage and they sell them for usually one - two dollars.

I Laserdiscs for a bit . I sold them most of them in 2005.

[VORARATH200]

We use to have this :D

but then it died after years of use.

[Fallout3Younational]

01:19 VHS = Very Hostile Sonnovabitch!

[F4fullpower]

"URG! URG! URG! FUCK YOU UP! URG!"

[Riddler95]

BetaMax was superior than VHS when it came to Picture & Sound quality, it offered better quality.

It could not record as many hours as a VHS tape.

[heydud11]

cool this video is 420 long

[t3amtomahawk]

3:31 Yes!! We had those for home movies with the adaptor!!! 90's will be "the day" someday..... :D

[pingipang45]

why dont yo upload your commercial???

[shinymamoswine1]

O shit it's soundwave

[mcsamab]

i love you have two copies of a mad, mad, mad, mad movie :)

[MrRewene]

1:20 - 1:25 epic battle of video formats

[Lovaelihn]

I grew up with Commodore 64, Betamax, VHS and Atari 2600. :)

[wbroz]

@Lovaelihn hellz yeah! :D

[SoniQ15]

@ 2:51 Back then, each of the channels on a VCR (and Betamax apparently) had to be manually tuned to a particular signal. For example, you would set channel 2 to show a certain channel, channel 3 to show another channel, and so on. Those white and yellow controls were used to manually set each channel to a station. Please note that you only had to do this if you had an over-the-air antenna directly connected to your VCR (or Betamax).

[3y3tiger]

@Jevy1997

good for u

[Jevy1997]

I know what a VHS is

[TmanV717]

I hardly doubt this generation knows what a VHS tape is. I grew up with this, I used to watch them all the time, and seeing them again brings back pretty nostalgic feelings.

[mariofana]

can we see the ad you did ?

[crazyeivis]

So, I guess I'm a nutcase?

[Daewonthamc]

oh wow! i found one of these in my parents garage awhile back... cool videos dood.

[seancool1128]

vhs kicks ass

[TeenageNintendoGamer]

I have a VHS c camera too!

[jamesgayok]

i have a massive collection of vhs and still watch all over them till this day lol

[goldengunuser]

robots in disgus

[goldengunuser]

yea kids now like 5 year olds sont know vhs

[wolneylopes]

lol, I learned to edit on beta, but I was more interested in film-making than editing news stories.. this was 1998, I'm not sure what news stations use now, but it still looks outdated to me..

[michaeljacksonyall]

I watch VHS all the time. My VHs to DVD ratio is 2:1 so upgrading all VHS would take forever. I like fastforwarding and just watching a movie, forget the menu. I watch VHS as much as I watch dvd

[notevenbroful]

"Looks like the Robot from Short Circuit"

You read my mind.

[trunk102]

it's like, here's beta right here, then VHS came in and was like UGH UGH FUCK YOU UP! UGH!!!

[Megatron65]

I had a Beta and the little switches were the tuners for each channel. When this was attached to a tv antenna you had to tune starting with channel 2 by spinning the little dial until your channel was clear. Then push the next number and yes it was a pain in the ass

[0ddzZz]

I still have a collection of Betas and VHS.

[Driuc0Sekoba]

You can compare the sound that makes a beta player with a laundry machine. Sorta.

[Driuc0Sekoba]

1:20 The epic video cassette battle!, SUPERLMFAO!!

[Driuc0Sekoba]

Oh my god, i need an aspirin so badly!

[Kotowboy]

I always preferred Beta to VHS. In my opinion it was better quality picture and sound. Plus it lasted longer. Plus it rewound a lot faster :P

[trillaboycloud]

i got the same betamax player which is cool, but i had it all threw out while everyone else had vhs's, i had to always use the family vhs player but at least the betamax has many and i do mean many connectors on the back to hook up dvd players, ps3's etc which i still do to this day if someones old ass tv didn't have connectors or didn't work for some odd reason...

[Dasiyssis]

was anyone else in the house when you made this becuase I would be suprised if they heard you and asked, "WTF were you doing?" lol

[WeStrangleRainbows]

I want to see James' commercial now that he mentioned it!

[frickfrock999]

"UGH UGH UGH FUCK YOU UP!"

[TheMole2005]

I didn't know about Beta, until I watched this one Episode of "Married... with children", where they mentioned Beta

as for Laserdisc and CED

were they ever released in Europe?

[darthvaderyoda]

There was more porn on VHS then Beta

[SABRENOSE]

@darthvaderyoda excellent observation porn industries made movies faster on VHS than hollywood did

[tomrule123]

1:20 Well, I guess that explains the VHS's popularity.

[GamblerMan1985]

LOL! " AH AH AH OH UH UH FUCK YOU UP"!!!

[3y3raven]

WARNING: Do NOT use BetaCam SP tapes in a regular Betamax machine! They cause excessive head wear and will severely damage your machine because betaMAX uses oxide and not metal tape like BetacamSP

[FireButts15]

@3y3raven

Excesive head wear? Seems like a tf2 players wet dream.

[trucksoner]

those things that you didn't know what they do are channel "fine tuners". the 13 "channels" on those old things are more like the presets on most car stereos, you have to manually find the channels first with those little adjusters and set them to each of the 13 buttons. i learned that from a couple old TV sets from the 70s!

[MrVideoGameMAN2012]

What tv commercial did you do

[shatteredgear]

Be Kind, Rewind

[arsdag81]

remember when every house had a rewinder.

[jordanthewizard]

Do you have super 8?

[ricman0101]

the beta player scares me

[dinotiger]

that was only like *pause* (Viewer thinks its gonna be like 3 wks or etc) less than... 6 years ago XD

[iamdominic1]

i noticed he has a wedding ring

is he married, and if he is

who is he married to?

jw

[SuperUsTube]

why the phuck is irape gaymer in the suggestions? >:/

[TheCGIMaster]

I only discovered recently that VHS is retro I watch em all the time an i thought alot of people still do... WHAT HAVE I MISSED?! O_o

[dangeldoll]

I know WHY Beta was bitten by WHS

I learned it on filmography, history of filmography and cinema, and again on commercial and media, and again on classic animation and computer animation -so many freaking subjects I study in collage

and damn all of them repeated why is Beta so important, and "why was VHS more popular?"

and the ugly truth is that VHS was used to make cheep porn movies and those were the most selling films in the world, thus the tapes became more popular!

so there you have it!

[WarpeaceWar6]

@dangeldoll no

i learned that its cause sony never sold beta so they were expensive as balls. it also meant there was no selection. same thing happened... ish... with hd dvd and blue ray.