"The Odyssey video game system was the #1 choice of dads who purchased a video disk player instead of a VCR."
You mean they were the trend-setters willing to drop the equivalent of a mortgage payment just to make their kids happy, right?
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Video disk players were the #1 choice of dads who were more concerned with video quality instead of taping edited TV movies and sit-coms.
That isn't snarkiness, either. VHS won the Great Videotape War because the format had a larger recording capacity. Didn't matter that Betamax delivered a better video. Didn't matter that Betamax had a smaller footprint.
Nope.
Betamax topped out at five hours recording, with two hours being average. That meant one movie a tape. VHS could store six hours comfortably which was at least three movies and a season finale of Family Ties.
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How awful is it that I had one of these AND and an RCA video disc player. I also had the JVC VHS player with GIANT colored buttons.
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ReplyDelete"The Odyssey video game system was the #1 choice of dads who purchased a video disk player instead of a VCR."
ReplyDeleteYou mean they were the trend-setters willing to drop the equivalent of a mortgage payment just to make their kids happy, right?
:D This Anon simply couldn't help it. :D
Video disk players were the #1 choice of dads who were more concerned with video quality instead of taping edited TV movies and sit-coms.
That isn't snarkiness, either. VHS won the Great Videotape War because the format had a larger recording capacity. Didn't matter that Betamax delivered a better video. Didn't matter that Betamax had a smaller footprint.
Nope.
Betamax topped out at five hours recording, with two hours being average. That meant one movie a tape. VHS could store six hours comfortably which was at least three movies and a season finale of Family Ties.
Yeah, but 6 hours was only on SLP speed and the video quality was horrific.
ReplyDeleteBetamax was definitely the better quality product. They finally got their revenge with Blu-Ray.
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