I swear we need an Alec signal, like the Bat signal, that we can shine when topics like this come up.
Here is a playlist is all of Technology Connections videos about the format wars. Alec does a great job explaining the history and showing things off.
TL;DW tape length and price are the main reasons. Arguably if you want to hang the win on a single reason, sports is probably the best answer. Betamax wasn’t long enough to tape a full game and Selectavision (which was doomed anyway) couldn’t record at all.
I swear we need an Alec signal, like the Bat signal, that we can shine when topics like this come up.
Here is a playlist is all of Technology Connections videos about the format wars. Alec does a great job explaining the history and showing things off.
TL;DW tape length and price are the main reasons. Arguably if you want to hang the win on a single reason, sports is probably the best answer. Betamax wasn’t long enough to tape a full game and Selectavision (which was doomed anyway) couldn’t record at all.
I can smell the brown and Midwesterness. Man I love his videos.