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From: mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: The Fate of Beta Format
Message-ID: <921@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 17:54:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 17:54:57 1985
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Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc. (guest of Ohio State U.)
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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?

I bought a Super BETA/BETA HiFi deck from Sanyo rather than a VHS HiFi deck,
even though everyone I know has VHS.  The main reason is that the sound and 
picture quality far surpasses that of VHS.  I don't plan on renting many
movies, but am using the machine for time shifting, archiving movies from
cable, and to replace my tape deck for pure audio recording.  If they stop
making BETA tapes, I'll just buy a few crates of blanks and I still won't
regret my decision.  It just looks and sounds better!  You can always hook
your BETA deck to someone else's VHS to copy their tapes to your format.