[mythtv-users] Cheap SCSI scanners - was:The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

Steve Hodge stevehodge at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 00:11:34 UTC 2007


On 10/23/07, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> Steve Hodge wrote:
> > On 10/23/07, *Yan Seiner* <yan at seiner.com <mailto:yan at seiner.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     I've heard the theory that Beta failed because Sony wouldn't license
> it
> >     to the porn industry, so all the porn came out on VHS.  Bingo, VHS
> got
> >     the market.
> >
> > That's the popular story but it's not true - porn was available on
> > Betamax ( e.g. Playboy released their stuff on both formats). Betamax's
> > downfall was due to a combination of factors including cost and
> > capacity. Betamax tapes could initially only hold one hour - not enough
> > for a movie. This was probably the biggest single factor.
>
> I think an even bigger factor was that VHS was the first to get 4 hours
> on a tape, and thus was able to record an entire NFL game.
>

Yes. I believe some of the VHS consortium wanted 4 hour capability from the
start. I don't think it was included at launch but LP came along pretty soon
afterwards.

Steve
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