Sony engineers invented Betamax, only to see the cheaper VHS become the standard for videocassette recorders.
Remember those days when you just couldn't find a VHS tape to save your life?
Police also seized a sizable quantity of VHS and Betamax video tapes, 8mm tapes and discs.
Back in the early days of VHS, consumers had a plethora of choices where to rent.
Thus far the story of VHS mirrors that of Blu-ray, but here the similarities end.
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By contrast, the VHS machine had a flexible concept that could be continually refined.
ECONOMIST: The battle to succeed the DVD has only just begun
The production is crude, as is the low-quality footage from VHS, but Jobs is captivating.
Finally, the different physical size of VHS and Beta tapes made building dual-format decks impractical.
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Many comparisons have been made between the high-definition disc format wars and VHS vs.
ENGADGET: Switched On: Seeking neutrality in the hi-def format war
They might still work, but who wants to use them: The 8 track tapes, VHS player, camcorders, etc.
Consider the battle between GSM and CDMA the equivalent of "Beta versus VHS" during the videotape format wars.
Betamax was launched in 1975, and won many fans who said it was better quality than its VHS rival.
Unlike VHS, neither the Blu-ray nor HD DVD format is a recordable medium at least, not in their present guise.
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Beta had better picture quality than VHS and it didn't help it win.
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Just as AC beat DC, the audio cassette beat 8-track and VHS beat Betamax, Qwerty won the format war.
It was still on 100 screens in October of 1994 when the film finally was released on VHS home video.
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The picture and sound quality of Beta was superior to VHS, Betaphiles say, although VHS tapes had a longer duration.
Some industry-watchers think this could turn into a struggle like that between the Betamax and VHS formats for video recorders.
Video will be accepted in the following formats: avi, VHS, S-VHS, VIDEO 8, MINIDV, DVCAM, DVCPRO25, BETACAM SP, DIGITAL BETACAM.
When first introduced, the Betamax VCR may have been technically superior to its VHS rival, but it was a dead-end design.
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Opening up the box for the Nintendo Wii, you see a cute white contraption, not much bigger than an old VHS tape.
You can move the bits to a D-VHS VCR like the one JVC makes, but that has not yet gained broad acceptance.
Commercial VHS, DVD and Blu-ray formats all debuted at the trade show.
Meanwhile Matsushita and its VHS partners went on to make a killing.
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Originally, Mina Smiles was issued on video cassette (VHS pal) in 1993.
Movies were first published on VHS tapes in the late 1970s and that format ran exclusively until DVDs showed up 20 years later.
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The Betamax lost out because, unlike the VHS machine, it couldn't record for the full three hours needed to cover a baseball game.
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The now-famous tussle between video formats - VHS and Betamax - interestingly saw Toshiba as a partner rather than a rival to Sony.
The video wasn't noticeably any clearer than standard VHS, but that may have had something to do with the quality of the television itself.
Imagine if your local video store only had VHS tapes of Warner Brothers Movies, but offered Limited Edition DVD's of all Sony pictures films.
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