Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jun 28, 2016, 08:45:05 AM
It's one of those "facts" I've always heard mentioned that I could equally believe is true as well as made up bullshit.
Hell no. I grew up during the VHS-Betamax wars. VHS won because it was way fricking cheaper. The second reason was that VHS had the option of a 6 hour run time. Sure it came at the cost of picture and sound quality but it was there where as Sony thought Quality was king.
Actually on the vhs-betmax thing, I just liked the look of the vhs tape. Bigger was better maybe? I was a kid, stupid logic. However beta didn't die off. It was highly regarded as the best format by far. Most video camers used beta before mini-tapes. You never recorded a wedding on VHS unless you were ignorant. As far as cost of the players go. You could buy a VHS player for about 100 bucks where as the Betamax player was 400 plus. The other thing is I remember buying movies when you had a choice between the two and a vhs tape would cost 16.99 and the betamax would be 19.99. Of course I bought the cheaper one. Plus I don't know why but betamax packing was huge. A lot of it came in that Disney movie plastic box which took up a lot of space. Where as on the VHS side only Disney used that packaging style. It really was ironic as the beta tape was smaller.
Bluray on the other hand won simply because it didn't confuse the elderly. I mean why can't a dvd player play a hd-dvd? Although I think the fact of the matter there wasn't enough room for two hd media with the exact same content. Walmart likely had the largest role in killing off hd-dvd when they refused to sell it.
