Betamax (sometimes alleged Beta, and referred to as such in the logo) was a consumer-level analog videocassette alluring bandage recording architecture developed by Sony, appear on May 10, 1975. The cassettes accommodate .50 in (12.7 mm)-wide cine in a architecture agnate to the earlier, able .75 in (19 mm) wide, U-matic format. The architecture is advised obsolete, admitting it is still acclimated in specialist applications by a baby boyhood of people.
Like the battling cine architecture VHS (introduced in Japan by JVC in October 19761 and in the U.S. by RCA in August 19772), Betamax had no bouncer bandage and acclimated azimuth recording to abate crosstalk. According to Sony's own history webpages, the name came from a bifold meaning: beta actuality the Japanese chat acclimated to call the way signals were recorded assimilate the tape, and from the actuality that back the bandage ran through the transport, it looked like the Greek letter beta (β). The suffix -max came from "maximum", to advance greatness.3
Sanyo marketed a adaptation as Betacord, but this was additionally referred to accidentally as "Beta". In accession to Sony and Sanyo, Beta-format video recorders were additionally awash by Toshiba, Pioneer, Murphy, Aiwa, and NEC; the Zenith Electronics Corporation and WEGA Corporations apprenticed with Sony to aftermath VCRs for their artefact lines. Department food like Sears (in the U.S. and Canada) and Quelle (Germany) awash Beta-format VCRs beneath their abode brands, as did the RadioShack alternation of cyberbanking stores. Betamax and VHS competed in a angry architecture war, which saw VHS appear out on top in best markets.
Like the battling cine architecture VHS (introduced in Japan by JVC in October 19761 and in the U.S. by RCA in August 19772), Betamax had no bouncer bandage and acclimated azimuth recording to abate crosstalk. According to Sony's own history webpages, the name came from a bifold meaning: beta actuality the Japanese chat acclimated to call the way signals were recorded assimilate the tape, and from the actuality that back the bandage ran through the transport, it looked like the Greek letter beta (β). The suffix -max came from "maximum", to advance greatness.3
Sanyo marketed a adaptation as Betacord, but this was additionally referred to accidentally as "Beta". In accession to Sony and Sanyo, Beta-format video recorders were additionally awash by Toshiba, Pioneer, Murphy, Aiwa, and NEC; the Zenith Electronics Corporation and WEGA Corporations apprenticed with Sony to aftermath VCRs for their artefact lines. Department food like Sears (in the U.S. and Canada) and Quelle (Germany) awash Beta-format VCRs beneath their abode brands, as did the RadioShack alternation of cyberbanking stores. Betamax and VHS competed in a angry architecture war, which saw VHS appear out on top in best markets.
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