Audioholics Guest Jul 1, 2002 6,157 0 0 Lakeland, Florida, United States Sep 17, 2002 #1 <font color='#000000'>SiliconValley.com reported recently the final demise of Betamax. As many of you know the story, this is the one that got away for Sony Corp, and resulted in a couple of decades of sub-standard tape-based recording systems. I for one, believe that if Sony had continued development, we would all be recording our favorite shows onto DigiBeta today instead of paying $35k for one for use as a production tool.</font>
<font color='#000000'>SiliconValley.com reported recently the final demise of Betamax. As many of you know the story, this is the one that got away for Sony Corp, and resulted in a couple of decades of sub-standard tape-based recording systems. I for one, believe that if Sony had continued development, we would all be recording our favorite shows onto DigiBeta today instead of paying $35k for one for use as a production tool.</font>
M mikenyc Junior Audioholic Sep 3, 2002 61 0 0 Sep 24, 2002 #2 <font color='#000000'>It may have ended as a format, but it didn't discourage SONY to develope other new technologies.</font>
<font color='#000000'>It may have ended as a format, but it didn't discourage SONY to develope other new technologies.</font>
