lol...Beta vs VHS newsgroups from 1984! (1 Viewer)

[London Lawson]

http://groups.google.com/group/net.v...n#6f5ebc359490
http://groups.google.com/group/net.v...n#085079d40e58

 

[Scott L]

WOW! Awesome find

The more things change

 

[Dave Poehlman]

 

[MarkHastings]

It's funny, the quote (from London's post) was actually right, but for the wrong reasons.

 

[JeremyErwin]

eek. 8 hour VHS tapes? Various sources have conspired to get us to believe that (original) Beta had better image quality than (original) VHS, but if references to 8 hour mode are being thrown around, perhaps "image quality" is a more recent concern.

 

[Ray Chuang]

I think the arrival of Super VHS in the late 1980's and the development of 19-micron recording heads in the middle 1990's pretty much finished off the Beta format. I just recently fixed my Mitsubishi HS-495 VHS recorder and it works fabulous well in recording high-quality recordings even at EP speeds.

 

[Greg_S_H]

That is completely awesome. Other than the technology being discussed, it could be a newsgroup conversation from 2006. What's most amazing to me is that this was 1984, which was about 11 years before I got on the internet. We think we came up with so much, but here are guys saying "stop the flaming" way back then!

 

[Garrett Lundy]

23 years later it seems Mr. Adolfo here is now buying HDTVs... "hey, i just got a 72" Toshiba and a HD-DVD player. Do I connect the red & white audio cables to the Tv, or just use the HDMI cable?"

 

[JeremyErwin]

Sour grapes rationalization is common among geeks. Perfectly sensible improvements in sound and video are lumped in with audio tweakery. As for me, I enjoy youtube and google video and all the rest for short clips-- but for sitting down to watch a movie, I prefer my 768p display and my oppo and my surround sound. Some prefer not to see the benefit because it is politically or economically unfeasible.