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From: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.sys.amiga,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Video
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 10:42:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 10:42:53 1987
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In article <1782@ccicpg.UUCP> harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne) writes:
>
>	I am sorry to say, but VHS stinks by any yardstick. Now that VHS
>is supposedly the standard of junk, what's in the future of JUNK? S-VHS.
>This great new incompatable format is now being foisted upon the poor
>and meager. It is not compatible with HDTV. (Unless you don't care)
>It is also not compatible with VHS which JVC promised would be compatible

S-VHS machines will play (and, I think, record) VHS, I'd call that compatible.
Sure, old VHS machines won't play S-VHS.  Old Beta and VHS machines aren't
hi-fi or stereo, either.  The point, presumably, is that your software
investment (ie videotape library) isn't rendered obsolete by the new (S-VHS)
machines.

> [ 30 more lines of flames on VHS, and some nice words about Sony and Beta ]

Neither system is perfect.  VHS had some things going for it before Sony
realized it's precious market position was at risk and started upgrading
the Beta technology.  But, buried in the flames were a valid point or two.
So what, the market has made its choice, with the less-than-inifinite
wisdom the market generally shows.  If we want something better we'll have
to wait for DVT - digital video tape - or somesuch.
    
  Your flaming strikes me as the rantings of someone who bought a Beta
machine and now is PO'd because of the hard time finding Beta software.
Lighten up, eh?
-- 
 Alastair JW Mayer     BIX: al
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Let's build a base on the Moon on our way to the asteroids - forget Mars.