| ▲ | XorNot a day ago |
| Beta was not the superior technology, and it lost for very good reasons. |
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| ▲ | stonogo a day ago | parent [-] |
| Beta was superior in everything but run length, and it lost because it was more expensive than VHS without being sufficiently superior to justify the cost. |
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| ▲ | XorNot 21 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes but that's not a minor issue: Beta's run length was so limited that it couldn't record or hold a full length movie or even a long TV show. | | |
| ▲ | stonogo 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Only for the first year or two of release. Early VHS capacities were better, but by the late 70s or early 80s there wasn't a meaningful difference. |
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