VHS versus Beta

Something that I continually see references too, is that VHS won out over the allegedly superior Beta format.  It's a fallacy, though.  Neither are really superior to each other, they're both mostly the same.  And in a number of important ways, mostly related to tape speed, VHS is better.

NB:  This page discusses the situation in Australia, which used different tape speeds than America for both formats (the standard speed allowing about three hours of recording), and both VCR types came out here a lot later (we, also, didn't have colour television until 1975, and domestic VCRs until the 1980s).

Some “facts”


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