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| From | RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes |
| Date | 2015-11-13 16:05 +0300 |
| Message-ID | <20151113160524.1fc46a65@koala> (permalink) |
| References | <n22oqv$pui$1@solani.org> <n230gg$l66$1@dont-email.me> <pR71y.144100$bA1.142776@fx41.am4> <5645d022$0$23852$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> |
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 12:57:21 +0100 "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > > Yes the Philips machines had the best tech but were too late to > market. > > I've always heard Sony refused to allow porn on their platform which > made VHS the system of choice. > > Until a few years ago I had two Sanyo Betamax machines and they just > lasted and lasted. Imagine if DARPA and successors had prohibited or coded against porn on the Internet. It would've never taken off! (tongue in cheek: not sure how you code against porn and certainly don't want to find out).
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[CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-11-12 19:21 +0000
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-11-12 21:32 +0000
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-12 21:51 +0000
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-11-12 22:14 +0000
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-13 12:57 +0100
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-11-13 16:05 +0300
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-11-13 10:01 -0600
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2015-11-13 16:08 +0000
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-11-13 12:54 -0500
Re: [CM] Bye Bye, Betamax tapes philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-11-13 22:25 -0600
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