----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylwester Pietrzyk" Subject: Re: next week's news
> On 2008-02-23, at 19:20, mike wilson wrote: > >> IIRC, it was the same two companies involved in that battle as in >> the videotape war. > No. Back then it was JVC (VHS), Sony (Beta) and Philips (V2000). Of > course the worst of these systems (VHS) has won :-) I think Sony's arrogance had more to do with that than anyting else. I had a couple of Beta machines, both had reliability issues which ended up chasing me over to VHS. Bt then, finding Beta tapes was a chore, and tape rentals and the like were all VHS. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
