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On 2024-12-28 21:22:59 +0000, Jerry Brown said:
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 08:58:10 -0600, Hornplayer9599
> <Hornplayer9599@aol.com> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Beta was the better product compared to VHS.  What killed Beta was that
>> it was proprietary to Sony, and they wouldn't allow 3rd party
>> manufacturers to build them.  VHS was "open source", and that allowed
>> those to be mass produced at a much lower cost.  Blu-ray (and HD-DVD)
>> was just the natural evolution from DVDs once HD video was possible.
> 
> When my family got its first recorder back in the early eighties I
> pushed for VHS because the media was longer and cheaper than Beta.
> This was UK so might have been different elsewhere in the world

That's exactly why VHS won the "format wars" for home use.

Beta was better quality, so continued to be used in video production 
workplaces such as TV studios where they could afford the higher prices.