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- From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
- Subject: Re: Great Simpsons Quote from 11/3/92 episode
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.204458.26665@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <4396@vidiot.UUCP> <F6HauB2w165w@amigans.gen.nz> <4439@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:44:22 GMT
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- 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.
- >
- >It was later enhanced and has become BetaCamSP. The current BetaCam format
- >isn't even close to the home BetaCam format (well except for the tape shell).
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- And there is now Digital BetaCam...
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- gary
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