Post AVzxnCLoQ4Ii6RF6Qa by zachnfine@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AVTnv6LRXVswwd2N4C by TechConnectify@mas.to
2023-05-09T12:40:47Z
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hi.do you have an uncle who won't shut up about how VHS didn't deserve to win against Beta? does this uncle cite all sorts of reasons for his opinion? is one of them beta's use in the pro-market?please send this to your uncleit's a new videohttps://youtu.be/hGVVAQVdEOs
(DIR) Post #AVUHJEJoRUZBIN8FyC by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2023-05-09T18:53:08Z
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@TechConnectify Nice! I'd not seen an explanation of the diff between Betamax/cam before. The precise positioning on Betacam was important to some pro uses - the one time I used it was in ~92 video digitising off Betacam, we couldn't digitise in realtime, but <step> capture....<step one frame exactly> capture... was doable on Betacam.
(DIR) Post #AVzxnCLoQ4Ii6RF6Qa by zachnfine@mastodon.social
2023-05-09T15:27:06Z
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@TechConnectify So this is hilarious. Are there actually people out there who conflate Betamax and Betacam in their “beta was the best” screeds? This video seems to be countering an argument I’d never heard.
(DIR) Post #AVzxsUmPKQSyhuCyQ4 by zachnfine@mastodon.social
2023-05-09T15:21:51Z
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@TechConnectify The fun argument I always heard was that porn made vhs king and Sony doomed beta by not allowing adult material on their tapes. But I also heard the real and more boring reason Beta lost is that you couldn’t fit a whole movie on a 1 hour tape and had to switch beta cassettes mid-film. VHS held longer duration videos.
(DIR) Post #AVzxsVm5d5o3nD4EYy by zachnfine@mastodon.social
2023-05-09T15:41:07Z
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@TechConnectify Wow this video handily dismisses every argument I’d heard. It’s great.