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From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph)
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Subject: Re: No BETA, no choice. --Gimmeabreak
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 16:00:37 EST
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> The Super Beta equipment is being pushed hardest in the
> video specialty shops, although I've seen units by Sanyo
> and Sony at two of the discount warehouses and the Sony
> units at Gemco.
> 
> So there's my own personal experiances.  In my opinion,
> Beta is not going away.  A lot of people wish it would, but
> end users that want higher quality still insist on buying Beta.
> When you hear rumors that Beta is dying, you might consider the
> possible motivation of the person or persons who started the rumor.

When I was in NY for Christmas, I believe I saw Super Beta machines
selling at Crazy Eddie, at what I considered an insanely low price.
Seems to me that one can't get more down to earth than Crazy Eddie.

Here in the Pacific Northwest, I've had no trouble finding Beta tapes
for my machine to eat.  I will not deny that there are a lot of video
stores, most notably some of the larger chains, that are or are becoming
all VHS, but there are still plenty of Beta tapes floating around in
many video stores.  None of these people seem to be making any moves
toward canning Beta.

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					-- Mark A.
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