Paid Members Surf Digby Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 Today I learned that the VHS format was released in Japan on the same day that Mao Ze Dong died. Quote
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) My dad had a Beatamax player. Also laserdisk and a HD DVD player. I'm also his least favourite of his children, so at least he got one right. Edited July 12, 2020 by ReturnOfTheMack Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 12, 2020 Members Posted July 12, 2020 Chalk me up as another whos Dad thought that Betamax would win the tape wars. Idiot. Quote
Harry Wiseau Posted July 12, 2020 Posted July 12, 2020 (edited) Betamax was technologically better wasn't it? You know what was even better? Video 2000! That's what we had, you could record on birth sides of the tape, imagine that! It was a far superior machine but was released that little bit after VHS which meant it didn't succeed. The video shop would have two walls of vhs rentals, a wall of betamax and about seven video 2000. We must have rented The Twelve Chairs at least four times. Edited July 12, 2020 by Harry Wiseau Quote
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 The first time I saw Star Wars on home video on wide-screen was from a (possibly pirate) Betamax version. Being too young to understand the concept of wide-screen vs pan-and-scan, I was amazed by how smaller video cassette had two sand people watching Luke's speeder going through the valley below them. Quote
wordsfromlee Posted July 12, 2020 Posted July 12, 2020 I watch all my movies on vinyl because it's just warmer. Quote
Keith Houchen Posted July 12, 2020 Posted July 12, 2020 Today I leaned that Prince Charming by Adam And The Ants is a straight rip-off of Rolferoo. Quote
Paid Members Tommy! Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Harry Wiseau said: Betamax was technologically better wasn't it? Better quality picture at the cost of run time. I've always been of the understanding it was all down to production company's backing VHS harder than Betamax, meaning the technical specs were secondary to consumers next to having a better catalogue. Much like the short lived HD DVD & Bluray era. What I've never heard is why that was, was VHS cheaper to mass produce for production companies or was JVC just the better salesman? Quote
wordsfromlee Posted July 12, 2020 Posted July 12, 2020 14 minutes ago, Tommy! said: What I've never heard is why that was, was VHS cheaper to mass produce for production companies or was JVC just the better salesman? VHS and VHS recorders/players were a hell of a lot cheaper to buy than Betamax. As you said, Betamax was slightly better picture and sound quality but the difference wasn't big enough to justify the extra cost of Betamax so most consumers went for the cheaper option, VHS. Quote
Paid Members Chris B Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 Nigel Bruce, who played the wonderful old duffer Watson to Basil Rathbone's Holmes, was only 44 when Hound of the Baskervilles came out. Quote
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 2 hours ago, Tommy! said: Better quality picture at the cost of run time. I've always been of the understanding it was all down to production company's backing VHS harder than Betamax, meaning the technical specs were secondary to consumers next to having a better catalogue. Much like the short lived HD DVD & Bluray era. What I've never heard is why that was, was VHS cheaper to mass produce for production companies or was JVC just the better salesman? Sony wanted too high a license fee for other companies to use the technology. Quote
Paid Members Tommy! Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 I've just learnt that WWF doctor Francois Petit was Sub Zero in the MK film. Quote
Paid Members PunkStep Posted July 12, 2020 Paid Members Posted July 12, 2020 9 hours ago, wordsfromlee said: I watch all my movies on vinyl You joke, but I bet Merzbow does Quote
Members SuperBacon Posted July 12, 2020 Members Posted July 12, 2020 13 minutes ago, PunkStep said: You joke, but I bet Merzbow does "If you play it backwards, there is an uncut scene where Colonel Kurtz does an impromptu dance on the head of an enemy!" Quote
Finbar Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) 23 hours ago, Nostalgia Nonce said: Sony wanted too high a license fee for other companies to use the technology. It might be apocryphal but I've always heard that Sony wouldn't allow Betamax to be used for porn and VHS would, and that that market hugely contributed to it's success. Edited July 13, 2020 by Finbar Quote
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