In article ,
Iain Churches wrote:
I remember at the time that many people in broadcast and duplicating
thought that Beta was superior. In fact there were some companies
using Beta for local ENG.

Pro Beta and later Beta SP were component recorders rather than the
domestic composite Betamax. The tapes of course *looked* roughly the same
- as did VHS and MII which was the Panasonic 'version' for broadcast, etc.

Component recording used a multiple head drum to record a luminance and
two colour difference signals. S-VHS was a simpler version of the same
theme and there were also domestic BetaMax recorders that used roughly the
same principle. But pretty rare.

DigiBeta is still the industry standard for high quality video recordings.

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