"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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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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Thanks Dave., You put it most eloquently. Arny is confusing Beta with
BetaCam. I was simply stating that when VHS and the original Beta were
still both domestic formats, there were some local TV companies, for example
HTV in Sweden who used domestic Beta as a local ENG format where
quality was not paramount.
Iain