NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/rec/video/13753

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From: [e-mail] (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.arts.tv,rec.video.production
Subject: Re: Great Simpsons Quote from 11/3/92 episode
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Date: 21 Nov 92 05:03:50 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Riyadth Al-Kazily) writes:
<In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (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.

I also remember it being called BetaCam.  But you are right about the
BetaMovie.  I forgot about that name.

But I believe that BetaCam still tends to get mixed up in the old Beta
camcorder that Sony used to have.
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