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--- In logic-ot@y..., "yoonchinet" <yoonchinet@y...> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, I learn something new everyday on this forum. I was always told
> that the Betamax system and the V2000(Philips) system went under
> simply because there were more porn videos available in the VHS
> formats than the other formats, :-). Seems like I've been told 
> wrongly by people in the video business; 

Well, I was working in a consumer electronics chain in London when 
those first affordable VHS and Betamax machines came out, and people 
were looking at the wide range of different manufacturer badges for 
VHS and the single (Sony) badge on the Betamax machines, and right 
away were making the decision that buying Betamax didn't seem to be a 
good idea.

This was /before/ the UK video market had kicked in.
Now, it's true that a while later, people saw the superior range of 
videos available for VHS, and that emphasised their initial 
misgivings about how widely Betamax was being supported, but AFAI'm 
concerned, that was just a further layer of positive feedback on top 
of what had already been going on with the "badge" issue. I think 
deep down people recognised that the two formats were too similar and 
one was probably going to have to die out, and that one was likely to 
be the one with fewer alliances. 


> Now I'm wondering, are there more porn movies being... nevermind, ;-
).
> Digi is a respectable company with no seedy alliances, I think, :-).

Hmm. You may have a point. I wonder who's really using all this cheap 
video-editing software and hardware (grin). 

Erk