And sony was the first brand to fight for the rights to have video tape at home, the movies industry did not like the idea to have movies at home , sony won the rights for to enjoy movies at home
It's been nearly 9 months since the last "Old Technology Returns Once More", but the wait was worth it. That was a great documentary showcasing the evolution of Betamax and its other products. VHS was mentioned continuously throughout this documentary since Part 2 (the longest part at 21 minutes), but nevertheless, it was nice to see some of the Betamax demo tapes and commercials be featured, which I didn't expect. Keep up the good work Cam, I'm looking forward to what will come next for your documentary series. :-)
Picture quality compared to todays format is bad but imagine how much more fun you had. Renting movies, recording them and how much appreciation and happyness it gave to isers. Right now you just click on tv and have it. People dont go outside, socialize to even rent a movie anymore. Miss those simpler daysbb
This documentary was definitely worth the 4 month wait, this documentary is spot on everything that we know about the Betamax and the U-Matic and I can't wait for future documentaries from this channel.
What an awesome documentary about Betamax, CCG88!!!! It's very interesting to see how the format war goes and the different variants of Betamax (that includes Betamax SP, Betacam, ED-Betamax, etc.) and I defiantly know the facts about it's previous system of U-Matic, which it is very unreliable. It was a great video and here's a request that I give you, can you do a documentary of these two early videocassette formats of Phillips VCR (not the VHS VCRs) and Phillips Video 2000? It'll be a very interesting one!! But overall, well done CCG88 on this brilliantly made documentary of the Betamax format. Hopefully there would be more old tech documentaries to come to this channel!! It's simply just *"BRILLIANT!!!!"* :D
I'm sure what really helped VHS in the UK, was that you could easily rent a VHS machine, from Radio Rentals, DER, Granada, in any UK High Street. At the time I never heard of anyone renting a Betamax machine. In 1981 our family couldn't afford to buy a VCR, so we rented our first VHS machine from Granada. I did see VHS and Betamax at the local Rumbelows store, but they were very expensive in 1981, and so we rented from Granada.
I still have my slhf1000 and slhf 900 along with my Beta movie 660 camera with all the accessories. I have 100s of beta video's that i bought when the video stores were selling out.
Maybe rather irrelevant now, but I had skip/scan on my Beta VCR *long* before it became available on VHS. Sony developed all the technologies which would, much later, be added to VHS.
Ok, the documentary is very interesting and cool. The information is very true, and the premiere is a especial moment to watch this, if you late, don't worry, seeing late is the same thing. Well, thanks for the people who created and helped in the video and the people on the premiere, that's is all to say to y'all, goodbye. Lucy Olivera 2 - 2020.
14:15 I had two of these Sony C7's to record the entire Band Aid Concert. UK and America. One had to go back to the Council, and the other was written off as damaged, so I got to keep It. It died a few years ago. the Heads went, I could not get any replacements for love nor Money. So I gave It as spares to someone who had one. I still have the tapes, plus early Music Videos that were and still are only on BetaMax tapes. It was Porn that put the Money up for Development of BetaMax and VHS and DVD's. It was the Camera angles that sold It for the Porn Industries. That Is why It was called The Digital Versatile Disc cause They could change the Camera Angles In Real Time. Check a early DVD movie, and look for the Camera symbol and a Number underneath. This Is the Number of angles You can go to while watching the film.
If you got hacked or sick of algorithms; let’s go back to VCR’s because social media is a stream more for film, and music industries, business, and celebs.
SVHS was an increased resolution version of VHS (luminance part only with the color being the same low resolution as VHS). I had 3 different SVHS machines and the recording speeds and times were identical to VHS (2 hours in SP on an ST-120 tape and 6 hours in EP on an ST-120 tape). Where did you get the 15 hours from? Are you confusing SVHS with those security recording VCRs?
At least Sony tried?? Also unlike the US, in the UK, there were technically 3 video formats durring the format wars, one by JVC, one by Sony, and one by Philips. The one that Philips has was known by Video 2000, or V2000 for short. And that format lost aling with Betamax in the UK.
hi to all betacam came out in 1982 i came say i still have alot still work 40 years on they are very goold decks right tanks of a video decks there's not many betacam on ebay now that are 100% still have all the front panel parts now and alot get hold of the later betacam digi player to get video from tapes
24:40 Utter rubbish. Video8 would fail because of VHSC? Who wrote this? VHSC failed because of Video8. The VHSC manufacturers such as Sharp abandoned VHSC as it lost the market, leaving only JVC and Panasonic trying to flog the dead horse at the end of analogue video.
7:44 ..In the States we pronounce it "BAY-da" rather than "BAY-ta", and pronounce how the U.K./you pronounce it "BEE-ta" rather than "B'AIEE-ta" ;p ... I had to listen to it 4 times to hear the difference
I will only watch p0rn on "Disco-Vision" the "U-Matic" or "CED" because I'm a purist. and just like Sting I demand a challenge before giving up my essence.
