On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 10:15 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > 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. And for those of us outside of America, VHS had better picture and sound because it had a higher tape speed (when it came to the era of being able to do three hour recording on both formats). VHS didn't exist here with multiple tape speeds, so we missed that mess. And those of us who had to deal with the domestic formats in production, one way or another, would find that Beta recorders would spread twice as much tape through the machine when they fouled up. Something like half a metre of tape that was very hard to unsnare and get the tape out. Although either format could do the M wrap, or the longer loop around the head loading, they nearly always did M wrap with VHS, and the halo ring around the Beta head drum. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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
