On 06/16/2010 06:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > The real reason VHS triumphed over Beta was the long recording times. That's what people wanted more that superior image quality. You could record a whole movie off the TV on a single standard play cassette, or on extended play, a whole evening of TV, 6 hours. Beta couldn't. > > Also, IIRC, VHS machines were cheaper than Beta ones. Cheaper. Longer playing. Sold! Consumers have spoken. Basically, the reason a product succeeds and a competitor fails does not have much to do whether one if better or not. IMHO, the reason that VHS triumphed was that it had much more content available. Certainly price is a significant consumer motivator. Windows is successful in spite of the fact that most of its users hate it. Back in the mainframe days, IBM's hardware, OS (and mainframe DOS) were the overwhelming winner when there were clearly better systems in terms of throughput and technology, such as some of Honeywell and Burroughs systems. Certainly marketing plays a big role. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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