Re: [OT] DVD is Dead. Long Live DVD.

On 2024-12-28 21:22:59 +0000, Jerry Brown said:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 08:58:10 -0600, Hornplayer9599
<Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:
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Beta was the better product compared to VHS.  What killed Beta was that
it was proprietary to Sony, and they wouldn't allow 3rd party
manufacturers to build them.  VHS was "open source", and that allowed
those to be mass produced at a much lower cost.  Blu-ray (and HD-DVD)
was just the natural evolution from DVDs once HD video was possible.

 When my family got its first recorder back in the early eighties I
pushed for VHS because the media was longer and cheaper than Beta.
This was UK so might have been different elsewhere in the world

That's exactly why VHS won the "format wars" for home use.
Beta was better quality, so continued to be used in video production workplaces such as TV studios where they could afford the higher prices.