• @bjg13
    link
    English
    131 year ago

    A time when the height of mobile audio was an 8 track mounted under your three on the tree.

      • @wildcardology
        link
        English
        51 year ago

        Yes it was, but it was Sony so they locked everyone out of the tech. Paving the way for VHS to win the format war.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        31 year ago

        What about Video 2000? The audio quality was so much better that when we finally switched to a VHS player I thought there was something wrong with the cable connecting it to the TV.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            21 year ago

            I don’t think it was ever available outside of Europe, but it had some major advantages such as a completely bonkers 8 hours run time per tape, perfect still images without distortion, and the ability to reverse or fast forward without the artifacts you’d see on VHS and Betamax.

      • @FangedWyvern42
        link
        English
        31 year ago

        Betamax was a Sony proprietary format, so they decided to lock everyone else out like morons.