http://chris.pirillo.com/betamax-vs-vhs/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:37:17 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://chris.pirillo.com/betamax-vs-vhs/comment-page-1/#comment-18142 Anonymous Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:43:31 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/06/betamax-vs-vhs/#comment-18142 There was another thing that helped drive VHS to the winner's circle as well... Pornography. Sony, with the proprietary technology, requiring tons of licensing fees, was too expensive for pronographers. JVC had opened it's technology to other companys, opening competition up, thereby driving costs for recording equipment and players trhough the floor. Pornographers liked that, and they went with VHS.<a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,661094,00.html" rel="nofollow">John Arlidge, from the Observer has some more to say on the subject.</a> There was another thing that helped drive VHS to the winner's circle as well… Pornography. Sony, with the proprietary technology, requiring tons of licensing fees, was too expensive for pronographers. JVC had opened it's technology to other companys, opening competition up, thereby driving costs for recording equipment and players trhough the floor. Pornographers liked that, and they went with VHS.John Arlidge, from the Observer has some more to say on the subject.

]]> http://chris.pirillo.com/betamax-vs-vhs/comment-page-1/#comment-18141 Anonymous Sun, 09 Oct 2005 00:07:28 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/06/betamax-vs-vhs/#comment-18141 Sony didn't try to screw up the home theater industry the first time around--Sony helped make home theater a reality, with the development of Beta Hi-Fi audio in the early 80s. At long last, near CD-quality audio was available in home video recording, which had previously been mired in a web of noise, poor fidelity, and audible wow/flutter. The VHS camp merely copied Sony's idea and adapted it for VHS a couple of years later. As with home video recording in general, Beta was the innovator and VHS was the imitator. Sony didn't try to screw up the home theater industry the first time around–Sony helped make home theater a reality, with the development of Beta Hi-Fi audio in the early 80s. At long last, near CD-quality audio was available in home video recording, which had previously been mired in a web of noise, poor fidelity, and audible wow/flutter. The VHS camp merely copied Sony's idea and adapted it for VHS a couple of years later. As with home video recording in general, Beta was the innovator and VHS was the imitator.

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