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Tag: betamax

Video of the Week: Why Beta Lost to VHS

By Vatche   Posted in Front Page Video of the Week
Posted on June 17, 2014

Format wars are completely interesting – the HD-DVD vs Bluray brought back memories of the infamous battle of Sony’s Betamax vs JVC’s VHS. In this video, YouTuber engineerguy, gives some great reasons to why VHS won over the much superior first to market Betamax.    

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