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I'd get one of the movies didn't cost 7 times what VHS costs

Rimsa 1 week ago

Poor betamax. It didn't stand a chance.

liarsclub75 2 weeks ago

use betamax

highfuturamic 4 weeks ago

I'm trying to pronounce every single dialogue this papey here is speaking.

TEACHYOUTEEWHY 1 month ago

sony betamax video-cassette

JoseFloresOficial 2 months ago

It is epic IT industry legend that porn decided the VHS vs BETA war. Sony who supported BETA did not want porn on the BETA format but JVC who pushed the VHS format welcomed adult films with open arms. Game over for BETA.

darkangel2347 2 months ago 2

@darkangel2347 los de sony son anti pornograficos y eso esta bien. ojala que siga asi sony con sus cd´s actuales.

JoseFloresOficial 2 months ago

In 1979, ¥228,000 was equal to about $1,000, which itself was roughly the price of VCRs here in the U.S.

mechaslovakia 2 months ago

11,111 views. Awesome.

WebVManReturns 3 months ago

My first VCR was a betamax. It was better picture quality than VHS.

aussietv2 3 months ago

holy crap you could fit a vhs big screen tv 3 piece suite and pc in that insane thing did it come with central heating too?

Sloposse 3 months ago

Almost 230k, that is fucking insane!

Stone8age 4 months ago

god dammn 229000 yen!

4d616c65737469636b 4 months ago

@4d616c65737469636b lol in dollar is about $228.. lol yen is crazy sometimes

HarajukuRini 4 months ago

@mattcares The adult franchise always has the upper hand.

RetroToledo 5 months ago

LOL betamax

TheJonnyEnglish 5 months ago

Puts me in mind of the Simpsons' Mr. Sparkle advert.

nebby6 6 months ago

IF ONLY - words Sony must have used so many times - however I understand that Sony had a royalty payment from every VHS machine ever made because of some of their patents, still as a fan of old Sony (real Sony - most of the current stuff doesn't desire the name) I do wish Beta has won the war....

mikeismad61 6 months ago

SONIE

supercooldude2121 7 months ago

@mattcares I know there's more to that. There's something else about VHS that also won the Video Cassette battle.

TEACHYOUTEEWHY 7 months ago

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BricktownBubba 8 months ago

W-VHS? COOL!

jjovereats 9 months ago

Beta was far superior, but a lot of poor business decisions (and bad advertising and distribution) resulted in its premature failure.

Ogma01 9 months ago 12

@Ogma01 Poor Business Decisions and Bad Advertising? Tell me what's up with that. I'm pretty curious to understand what you mean by all of that for me to believe you.

TEACHYOUTEEWHY 9 months ago

@Ogma01 Not really. Resolution-wise, VHS and beta are identical (and HiFi Beta had slightly worse quality then VHS), VHS had longer running times, *and* VHS was cheaper.

Sony played up the fact that Beta was developed from pro equipment, and *claimed* the picture was better then VHS's but they had very little to actually show for it.

spacehelmetforacow 3 months ago

I agree.

Alexvideoclip 10 months ago

Actually beta was the better format

Jdo4031 11 months ago

I love the irony in the fact he points out how small the tapes are, then there's this monstrosity of a video player right afterwards...

superjoshua7777 1 year ago

@superjoshua7777

If you thought that old Betamax was large, wait 'till you see how large a U-Matic VCR from the same era was.

At 0:18, you may have noticed those big black cases and then the camera pans right to show the size of Betamax cassettes in their box sleeves. Those big black cases contained U-Matic video cassettes; 3/4" video tape compared to 1/2" used with Beta and VHS.

Watcher3223 1 year ago