Yes, record time was the big reason why VHS won out over Beta. Picture quality was said to trend a bit towards Beta but in all reality both were comparable. Beta tried to trump VHS when it introduced Beta Hi-Fi. Sony reasoned that VHS by design would not be able to make VHS into a full frequency Hi-Fi setup because there was no room between the video scans to layer in full band width audio as Beta allowed. The VHS group just created multiplexing burying the Hi-Fi audio deeper into the tape layer and created heads that could detect and construct the audio. Once that happened Beta was going down. SVHS combined with VHS Hi-Fi was stellar in analogue video record and playback. Super Beta came out and was said to again have a slight picture edge but it was all but over by then... JVC had licensed way more makers to sell VHS machines Sony never did establish a big enough licensee base.
Was Beta as good as or better than reel to reel?
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I think I remember reading somewhere that Beta vcr machines were a superior audio recording and playback medium. Does anyone here have any experience with Beta as a hifi audio format?
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I think I remember reading somewhere that Beta vcr machines were a superior audio recording and playback medium. Does anyone here have any experience with Beta as a hifi audio format?
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