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Remember when they launched video recorders?
Betamax or VHS? What to buy?
And Oooo! You can record your own programmes.
Christ, I feel ancient.
I was there at the birth of home video and computer games.
Where's meh slippers?
Betamax or VHS? What to buy?
And Oooo! You can record your own programmes.
Christ, I feel ancient.
I was there at the birth of home video and computer games.
Where's meh slippers?
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We've got a Betamax somewhere. It's weird, but BTM is actually superior to VHS, but for some reason it never caught on. You can still get BTM VCRs and tapes from Bang and Olufson centres.
Got the Star Wars originals and the box set of the rehashed ones from the mid-nineties. Would rather the DVDs though -espically of they were to have propper commentaries (not the clinical, informative yet brain nummingly bull one on the Phantom Men. disk).
I didn't have a betamax... I can't even remember how good they were...
All I know is that I have the Star Wars Originals on VHS and i love them... they're by babies... :D
All I know is that I have the Star Wars Originals on VHS and i love them... they're by babies... :D
The thing that is often quoted as sealing it for VHS was the fact that they were the format of choice for the porn industry. Seriously.
In fact, the porn industry have repeatedly shown themselves as the early adopters - pioneers of Flash on the internet and many of the extra features on DVD e.g. multiangle.
But come on, who else actually had a Betamax player?
In fact, the porn industry have repeatedly shown themselves as the early adopters - pioneers of Flash on the internet and many of the extra features on DVD e.g. multiangle.
But come on, who else actually had a Betamax player?
The Game wrote:
>They've already had our '78's!
It was when they stopped stelling 8-tracks that my heart died forever...
If only they could have kept showing 'Convoy' in the cinemas, I would have known everything would have been alright 'good-buddy'
>They've already had our '78's!
It was when they stopped stelling 8-tracks that my heart died forever...
If only they could have kept showing 'Convoy' in the cinemas, I would have known everything would have been alright 'good-buddy'
Ick! Cabbages... they're gross... I hate Broccoli as well, and Sprouts...
Back of Brussels!
They've already had our '78's!
Nooooooo!
Back of Brussels!
They've already had our '78's!
Nooooooo!
You might be an old fart Grandad, oops, I mean Goatboy, but I'll bet you smell as strongly of Cabbages as the day you were first expelled onto the world!
:)
:)
Damn - I've fmucked my back up...
I've just downloaded about 19 MGS2 video's.... most of them are hilarious... i'll be buying the game for the comedy factor alone... the physics are cool....
Can I still say that? 'Cool'?
Nowadays it's all this 'Phat', 'Mint' and 'Ravin' crap... I mean who the hell thought these things up?!
Stupid school kids!... anyway...
That's enough moaning... The repeat of Coundown is one, and i'll be darned if i'm missing 16 to one...
I've just downloaded about 19 MGS2 video's.... most of them are hilarious... i'll be buying the game for the comedy factor alone... the physics are cool....
Can I still say that? 'Cool'?
Nowadays it's all this 'Phat', 'Mint' and 'Ravin' crap... I mean who the hell thought these things up?!
Stupid school kids!... anyway...
That's enough moaning... The repeat of Coundown is one, and i'll be darned if i'm missing 16 to one...
Slaveunit wrote:
> Betamax was in fact, the superior format for quality, it;s just VHS was marketed
> better.
Betmax was better quality, and had smaller tapes (you could only see one spool through the case). Apart from the marketing, VHS was also quite a bit cheaper.
And remote controls for both formats worked via a cable running between the VCR and the handset.
> Betamax was in fact, the superior format for quality, it;s just VHS was marketed
> better.
Betmax was better quality, and had smaller tapes (you could only see one spool through the case). Apart from the marketing, VHS was also quite a bit cheaper.
And remote controls for both formats worked via a cable running between the VCR and the handset.
Shut it grandad.
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