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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best*
Date: 1998/12/09
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Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:

<..snip..>

>This is actually a specious comparison.  Though Beta had superior picture
>quality, it had only half (or a third?) of the playing time of VHS.  The
>market decided that playing time was more important, and so chose VHS.
>
>(Credit goes to Robert Dewar for pointing this out in a previous post.)
>
>Arguments about Beta format being "better" usually omit the contribution
>of playing time in the decision to chose VHS.

Off-topic I know, but I had a Betamax video recorder and when that
format started to fizzle out, we were using 3h15min tapes compared to
the then VHS limit of 3 hours. 4 hours were possible but hadn't really
hit the market.

Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>