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- From: kimnach@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH)
- Subject: Re: Great Simpsons Quote from 11/3/92 episode
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- References: <4396@vidiot.UUCP> <F6HauB2w165w@amigans.gen.nz> <4439@vidiot.UUCP> <BxxGDu.4Bt@mail.boi.hp.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 16:40 EST
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- In article <BxxGDu.4Bt@mail.boi.hp.com>, riyadth@boi.hp.com (Riyadth Al-Kazily) writes...
- >In article <4439@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >>In another of Sony's blunders, they used the name BetaCam more than once. The
- >>first product was a home consumer camcorder, that recorded in the Beta format.
- >>It never did good and died. In Sony's wisdom, the name got used again for a
- >>professional product that used Beta-like tape, but wasn't in the home Beta
- >>format. The tape only lasted 20 minutes, was a different formulation, and
- >>separated the luminance and chrominance & recorded them on separate video
- >>tracks.
- >
- >Wasn't the consumer camcorder line called BetaMovie? I'm pretty sure that
- >I remember it that way, but I could be wrong. I certainly don't remember
- >BetaCam associated with any consumer model equipment.
-
- Yes, it was refered to as BetaMovie. That's what my Beta camcorder has
- written on it and in the manual. Now, my ED camcorder is called an ED-cam.
-
- But this was another example of misinformation and a means of belittling
- the format, its supporters, and Sony.
-
- Greg
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- ED-Beta: Simply THE BEST!
- "ED Beta is simply the best consumer videotape format available."
- --VIDEO Magazime, Nov. 1992, page 30.
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