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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- Subject: Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- From: warrl@blarg.net (Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin)
- Date: 1995/09/20
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- Reply-to: warrl@blarg.net
tice@nai.net (Bradley D. Tice) wrote:
>Not totally comparable. I have heard about Beta being as good as VHS, but
>they were only able to store about 60 minutes of video.
Beta was *better* than VHS... but the people doing VHS came up with a
way to put 2 hours on 1 tape more than a year before Sony did the same
for Beta.
That one-year delay was fatal for Beta.
The Japanese learned... the *first* format they came out with for CD's
has the rather odd-sounding length of 70 minutes. This is how long it
*has* to be, to put Beethoven's 9th Symphony on one CD. That
particular symphony is extremely popular in Japan; if they had not
provided it, another company would have figured out a way to do so and
then would have blown the original makers out of the Japanese market.