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Originally Posted by Dude111
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I remember we had one of each, vhs in living room, dining room had the betamax, that dad bought when he took early redundancy from one job, and got another job immediately
There was a video rental place near us, 1 and a half walls were VHS, 1/2 a wall betamax, and a rotating stand for the Video 2000 format!
Betamax was superior in terms of sound and picture quality, but the big boy film studios all got behind JVC and VHS, so there were more films to rent for it, so it was more popular. VHS was also cheaper.
I remember when dad got his first camcorder as well - VHS-C, rather than having to hook the camcorder up to the tv/video, you put the small tape, in a large adapter tape to play in normal VHS VCR