OT, but needs atention!!!

[Rick Jansen]

In message <ISSMTP.98_26_.19991215085712.129f at unilever.com> you write:
 
>   Sony screwed up with the VIDEO2000 system, when Betamax and VHS
> where around, Beta was technically better, but VHS had better marketting
> and stronger support from manufacturers (Read:cheaper). I think sont
> learned a BIG lesson from this.

Video2000 was not by Sony but by Philips. Betamax is Sony.
I don't know who invented VHS.

Apparently Video2000 did not make it because Philips refused 
to produce tapes with porn :) I still have an old V2000 recorder,
which could do stripeless slow motion and single frame 10 years
ago, and could record up to 8 hours on one cassette.

Philips had a way with strange marketing decisions, creating
DCC when everyone was ready for the recordable CD. 

Rick Jansen
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