In article ,
John Williamson wrote:
I was thinking that Beta only ever had a small part of the market, even
though it was produced for a long time,

In the pro field it was the market leader as in BetaCam. Basically the
same system but using component recording.

MiniDv & VHS-C have mostly seen
off Digital 8 & the other 8mm tape formats, the Walkman used the Philips
Compact Cassette, & so on. I wouldn't say that Trinitron was a format as
such, although it did give a better picture than shadowmask,

No it didn't. Pro Grade 1 monitors stuck with triad shadowmask. Sony
claimed to have Grade 1 Trinitron monitors monitors, but they were never
the best.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
John Williamson wrote:
I was thinking that Beta only ever had a small part of the market, even
though it was produced for a long time,

In the pro field it was the market leader as in BetaCam. Basically the
same system but using component recording.

Same cassette housing & tape wrap, different tape formula, faster linear
tape speed...
Often replaced later by Digibeta, I think.
Good stuff admittedly, used by a lot of production companies, but not
Betamax.

MiniDv & VHS-C have mostly seen
off Digital 8 & the other 8mm tape formats, the Walkman used the Philips
Compact Cassette, & so on. I wouldn't say that Trinitron was a format as
such, although it did give a better picture than shadowmask,

No it didn't. Pro Grade 1 monitors stuck with triad shadowmask. Sony
claimed to have Grade 1 Trinitron monitors monitors, but they were never
the best.

Domestic grade stuff looked sharper & brighter to me than shadowmask,
possibly partly due to different setup in the drive circuitry. Pro's a
different market altogether, & I'd be using different criteria to judge
it. Different types of "better", I think. Fuji against Kodak, maybe.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

"Trevor Wilson" wrote
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I told you so.


If I didn't tell them first! ;-)