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From: seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: The Fate of Beta Format
Message-ID: <1666@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 13:34:16 EST
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In article <703@leadsv.UUCP> chris@leadsv.UUCP (Chris Salander) writes:
>
>	Do people on the net think that Beta will last?  Or is
>Sony going to eventually cave in and adopt VHS?  I am thinking about
>buying a VCR.  Anytime I have seen a market like this, everyone
>eventually adopts one format( e.g. IBM).  But there are incentives to 
>buy Beta.  If I go with Sony will I be left hanging in a couple of years?

Why would Sony spend the bucks for developing Beta HiFi and SuperBeta
if they planned on dumping the format?  People have been saying that
Sony should drop Beta for years now, but Sony just keeps improving it,
keeping Beta ahead of VHS technically, if not in sales.

Chevy sells more cars than BMW too.

Snoopy
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