[X-Newbies] Top posing in mail?

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 12:04 AM -0500 5/21/05, Steven Rogers wrote:
>>Quality is not the issue in the end. Remember video standards? Beta was
>>actually better than VHS, but the more important thing was that everyone
>>used the same standard, otherwise not all movies were available to everyone.
>
>This has been repeated until most people think its true, but it is 
>just completely wrong. First, Beta was not "better" than VHS in any 
>way that the user actually cares about, which is a critical point. 
>To say that beta was actually better, but people just didn't 
>understand why is to miss the whole point of what "better" is. 
>Further, it was not important that everyone use the same standard. 
>Sony wanted to charge more for Beta, which was identical to VHS to 
>everyone but video geeks, and average consumers did not want to pay 
>extra.

Nah. It was about the porn and about length (now *there's* a pun 
waiting to happen!)

<http://www.answers.com/topic/betamax>
<http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/no1/johnson.html>
<http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9272>
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