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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: USA Election
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:33:13 +1100
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Your Name wrote on 25/11/24 9:07 am:
> On 2024-11-24 11:22:53 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>> Your Name wrote on 24/11/24 9:25 am:
>>> On 2024-11-23 11:00:18 +0000, Daniel70 said:
>>>> The Doctor wrote on 23/11/24 10:00 am:
>>>>> In article <vhqskl$1biil$1@dont-email.me>,
>>>>> Your Name  <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-11-22 15:08:53 +0000, Blueshirt said:
>>>>>>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>>>>>>> The Doctor wrote on 22/11/24 3:47 am:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The Pope does not represent Christianity.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Correct ..... just the MOST POPULUS strain of Christianity,
>>>>>>>> Gobble-de-gook.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Covid-19 was also a popular strain!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Plus, popular doesn't necessary equal right. :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep. VHS, Windows OS, and Tesla cars are three other "popular" but
>>>>>> incredibly stupid things. Usually what sells the most is the cheapest
>>>>>> option rather than the best option.
>>>>>
>>>>> VHS was much better then Beta!
>>>>
>>>> Beta was Better!! Hence the NAME!!
>>>
>>> Betamax was the easily better format for picture quality, but lost 
>>> out to the cheaper VHS which also had longer recording times. Beta 
>>> was (and probably still is in some places) the choice for 
>>> professional film and TV makers.
>>
>> Sort of suggests something that most (if not all) the 'on location' 
>> T.V. News Cameras of the mid-80's onwards were BetaCams!!
> 
> Betamax and Betacam are similar in some ways, but different in others. 
> Betacam was better than Betamax. They did use the same type of video 
> cassette, but the video formats themselves were not interchagable.
> 
Is that right?? Well there's my 'thing for the day'.

I just figure Betamax was the High Definition (for the day) version of 
Betacam!!
-- 
Daniel