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Betamax (also
known as Beta, as in its logo) is a consumer-level
analog recording and c****ette
format of
magnetic tape for video,
commonly known as a...
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recorders (VCR) in the late 1970s and the 1980s,
mainly involving the
Betamax and
Video Home
System (VHS) formats. VHS
ultimately emerged as the preeminent...
- po****r
media format for VCRs as it
would win the "format war"
against Betamax (backed by Sony) and a
number of
other competing tape standards. The c****ettes...
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Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), also
known as the "
Betamax case", is a
decision by the
Supreme Court of the
United States which ruled...
- half of
British homes owned a VCR. The two
major standards were Sony's
Betamax (also
known as
Betacord or just Beta), and JVC's VHS (Video Home System)...
- to consumer-grade
Betamax,
introduced by Sony in 1975.
Betacam c****ettes
could be used in a
Betamax VCR; likewise, a
blank Betamax tape
would work on...
- name for a
range of
consumer grade camcorders developed by Sony for the
Betamax format. By "camcorder" is
understood a
single unit
comprising a
video camera...
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format war. The
Betamax c****ette was smaller, with
slightly superior picture quality to the VHS c****ette, but this
resulted in
Betamax having less recording...
- The
Betamax format was also
marketed Betacord by (Sanyo); some c****ettes were
simply labeled "Beta", and the logo was a lower-case beta.
Betamax lost...
- videoc****ette
recorders were
introduced by JVC (VHS) and Sony (U-matic, with
Betamax)
releasing a
model for
mobile work.
Portable recorders meant that recorded...
