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philistine on April 8, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is the DTS vs. Dolby war effectively over?

We've all collectively fallen for Sony's marketing for Betamax. It was not clearly higher quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJs8-I9WtA

kuschku on April 8, 2022 [–]

Considering beta 2 matches VHS's LP, the quality advantages of Betamax may have simply been that beta 1 just used more tape per minute of recording time.

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