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Subject: Re: OT: Question for Anim
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:54:32 -0400
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:48:33 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>In article <usoqio$4l1e$1@dont-email.me>,
> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>
>> On 3/11/2024 9:06 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>
>> > Compare this thinking to beta versus VHS. There's absolutely no doubt Beta
>> > was better in every measurable capacity, but VHS was better at promotion
>> > and underhanded pricing deals. So it won.
>> > 
>> I thought it was because Betamax wouldn't allow their format to be used 
>> for porn.
>
>How could they have stopped it?
>
>That's like saying Ford wouldn't allow its cars to be used to film porn. 
>Except once you buy a car, it's yours, and you can use it for anything 
>you like and Ford has no say about it.
>
>Betamax had no authority to dictate what the people who bought their 
>tapes could record on them.

 I think it's become a bit of a myth.  I remember seeing porn on Beta tapes
years ago.  By the time video stores became popular, VHS had aleady won the
war because of it's longer recording time, much lower price and from what
Anim8tr already said about product placement.  Video stores stocked many
more VHS tapes because that's what the majority of people owned.

Interestingly enough, when the industry started putting copy protection on
tapes, you could copy from VHS to Beta machine.   The Beta machines weren't
affected by it.