[Gllug] IA32? IA64? x86...

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Thu Oct 3 13:20:23 UTC 2002


Adam Bower writes:

>I was under the impression that neither of those was to do with 
>marketing, I thought the main reason VHS started to win over Betamax was 
>because Betamax was more expensive than VHS and also the proliferation 
>of pr0n movies on VHS.

VHS won primarily on tape length -- you could fit more on a VHS tape
than you could on a Betamax tape:

	http://www.urbanlegends.com/products/beta_vs_vhs.html

Tet

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