• @wildcardology
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      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]
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      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]
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          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
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      31 year ago

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