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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There IS an Amiga, i just don't use it :
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 21:45:50 GMT
- Organization: a Graveyard of Empty Bottles
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- Patrick Sheffield (psheffield@earthlink.net) wrote:
- : [snip]
- : >> PC' s are like VHS... Crap but standard...
- : >> I still use my A2000 in video work and i am thinking of buiyng a new one
- : [snip]
- : >I agree...every TV station still uses Beta. It's that much better.
- : >Many TV stations use AMIGAs extensively. It's that much better!
- : >
- :
- : Sorry, but TV stations do /not/ use *BetaMAX*, that was a consumer format.
- : There is a professional format BetaCam SP. That is what you may be refering
- : to. I do not know the ancestry and how the formats are related (other than
- : they are both made by Sony), but they are not the same thing.
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- BetaCam stores chrominance and luminance information separately, but it
- does use BetaMax compatible tapes.
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- C-YA
- Jon
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