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Chuck Norcutt
On 4/15/2014 9:29 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> I may be misremembering, but as I recall, unless a movie was on the
> short side, it required _two_ Betamax tapes to see the whole thing,
> whereas VHS required only one. If anything supplied the tipping
> point, it was laziness and convenience (yes, sometimes the same
> thing.)
>
> --Bob Whitmire Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Apr 13, 2014, at 5:40 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> ? Am I wrong here but… I was of the understanding that Betamax was
>> the better system - more compact, more reliable, less prone to
>> jamming - but VCR reached the tipping point first in the consumer
>> market and dominated. I
>
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