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Originally Posted by English Dave
Beta tapes were great. Smaller than VHS. The whole system was superior, but they didn't get the movies in the rental stores. Did Betamax in sadly.
I've still got four VHS tapes upstairs in our bedroom. One is of my father I took a few weeks before he died. I transferred it onto disc years ago, but it's got sentimental value. The others are movies. I have a Toshiba machine under the telly that records onto a hard drive, and has a slot for DVDs, and VHS tapes. Never use the VHS part, but I'm ready if the system ever comes back..........  |
Speaking of formats, I was quite surprised to see VHS tapes in the various system formats(both PALs, SECAM, & NTSC) available for tourists, at locations on the continent in the 90s. I'd never seen that in the US. PAL & SECAM didn't surprise me, but including NTSC did. Was that the case in the UK? It made sense. I guess in the US people assumed that tourists would shoot their own videos & the chance of the average US citizen knowing the system formats was slim to none, unless they worked in TV, or knew someone who did. I knew enough people who did freelancing who would have done it if the work was being done. Heck, I would have done it. But then, the equipment to dub tapes to the different systems was ungodly expensive.
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