On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 08:52:16 -0500 Dale J. Chatham wrote: > I'm not sure the consumer actually chose. The porn producers chose to > go with VHS and very little Beta porn was produced. > > The result is that we had VHS, even though it is arguably not as good as > Beta. Actually, in the only criteria that counted, VHS was infinitely superior to Beta: You could record a whole 2 hour movie on VHS and watch it later. You couldn't do that at all on Beta. The choice was a no-brainer for anyone who wanted to use a VCR the exact same way everyone uses TiVo today. It didn't take me any time at all to reject Beta when buying my first VCR :-). The myth of superior Beta is propagated by the 0.001% of people who wanted to use it to make videos as opposed to just recording off TV. By the time Beta offered options to record more than 90 minutes, it was already dead. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
