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From: thoth@tellab2.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Re(2): Future Considerations -- CLARIFICATION
Message-ID: <182@tellab2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 10:17:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: tellab2.182
Posted: Thu Oct  4 10:17:08 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 06:08:30 EDT
References: <595@trwspp.UUCP>
Reply-To: thoth@tellab2.UUCP (Marcus Hall)
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, Ill.
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Summary: 

In article <595@trwspp.UUCP> stassen@trwspp.UUCP writes:

>Besides, you obviously don't care about availability of movies -- you own
>a Beta deck because technology means so much more.

>                I think I'll stick to buying the things that satisfy me
>most ... I like lots of movies.  If you like slick lights and buttons, well, 
>that's your business.

From this article, one could easily get the idea that there is a lack of
movies for Beta.  I have never had any problems getting any movie I
wanted in Beta format.  Every advertisement I can remember for any video
tape stated availability for both Beta and VHS.  Are there really any
movies available only on VHS?  Incidently, there certainly are more
movies in Beta hi-fi than in VHS Hi-Fi, but they're sure to get the VHS
Hi-Fi tape duplicators working someday. :-)

I bought Beta because my friends had Beta, and it was nice that it had
slightly better specs.  I don't really think that it makes that much
difference, but I'm very pleased with Beta.

One feature that my 2700 has that no VHS deck has, however, is a tape
counter that works in hours, minutes, and seconds.  It reads the control
track and counts frames.  This and the tape indexing system are easy to
start relying on.  When I use a deck without these (any VHS and many Betas,
to be fair) I feel so lost...

marcus hall
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