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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Oh darling, a citation means where you link to an authoritative website to back up your bullshit. You can't just say "I said so".
It makes you look really silly!
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JV was testifying in congress against the VCR in 1982
http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm
going backwards
I remember being around when the vcr vs betamax debate was going on
you bought a betamax if you wanted to record tv shows (1 hour tapes) and the vhs if you wanted to watch dirty movies (1976). In fact that was the reason my dad bought a betamax INSTEAD of vhs vcr.
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Videotape first emerged as a cheap and efficient alternative to film (later kinescope) for TV production. Its development for home use owes its birth to Sony and Betamax but its maturity to porn. Predicting that the greatest use of home VCRs would be time-shifting, that is, recording TV shows off the air for later viewing, Sony designed Betamax tape with a one hour playing time.(40) When the market for videotape proved not to be time shifting, but prerecorded movies instead, longer-playing tape was demanded, and VHS arose to meet the demand. Though Beta eventually went to a four hour format, it was too late. Within years, two-, four-, and six-hour VHS tape became the industry standard.(41)
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http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs...1/johnson.html