It's hilarious that everyone talks about the technical superiority of Betamax. The only thing it had over VHS was drum diameter. Other than that, it was a mechanical nightmare, and way more expensive to build and adjust. Sony learned from the Betamax mistake, and designed the 8mm video format with a transport in the VHS style.
So we can all burn our excess CPU cycles searching for GPL'ed code in Windows now?
It's hilarious that everyone talks about the technical superiority of Betamax. The only thing it had over VHS was drum diameter. Other than that, it was a mechanical nightmare, and way more expensive to build and adjust. Sony learned from the Betamax mistake, and designed the 8mm video format with a transport in the VHS style.
It allows all timezones to be displayed :-)