Why VHS won

Be kind, rewind, and destroy your Betamax enemies. Reaction:   / 81909853  

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Youtube Vids!

   • Comparing Beta & VHS on Quality: Was ...  
I saw this and was like, alright, a test literally can’t be done better than this. This is insanely rigorous.

I think this video is kinda ludicrous, but here it is for those who want an engineering perspective.
   • How Sony's Betamax lost to JVC's VHS ...  

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3117053
I tried really hard to make this clear in the video, but this video is a huge adaptation of this paper. Sometimes papers are good, sometimes they are OK, sometimes they suck. This one is incredi QJbly rigorous in proving every contention and really going through possible objections. Finding it convinced me this video was worth doing, especially since it runs counter to so much existing info on the “content” web (this is my new pejorative for poorly researched stuff).

https://amzn.to/3oyyDlC
Here’s an affiliate link to Fast Forward, the book I read. It’s good! It focuses a bit more on the Hollywood business stuff (which is just as interesting). Lotsa quotes and gossip in there. Good book. I think the author is distantly related to Ring Lardner (for real).

EVERY SINGLE VIDEOPHILE. Bask in its glory.
https://magazines.lddb.com/The.Videop...

   • First Betamax - Salesman Training Vid...  
I think I actually found this Betamax training video on Archive.org, but here it is on YT.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20755566
That Law office article. I just wanted to show some contemporary proof of this (somewhat obvious) decision.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20755566
Some mathier proof that Network Effects doomed Beta.

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