Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rochester!ritcv!jeh From: jeh@ritcv.UUCP (James E Heliotis) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Bye bye Beta? Message-ID: <899@ritcv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 17:50:12 EST Article-I.D.: ritcv.899 Posted: Mon Jan 30 17:50:12 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Feb-84 16:05:51 EST References: inuxc.903 Lines: 25 I MUST change my former opinion. Beta is NOTICEABLY better than VHS. My brother recently bought a GE VHS VCR (same as Panasonic?), and brought it to my place. (He lives in northern NJ where Beta is incredibly scarce, so I can't blame him for getting VHS) We recorded the same scene, his camera connected to his VCR, and the video/audio outputs of his VCR going to the video/audio AUX inputs of my Zenith Beta 9800 (=Sony SL2000, I think). To our surprise, my recording looked better! We were not looking to compare the two, it was just something we both wanted to record. My brother said it first by the way. I was surprised. And, besides, that, EVERY function change he made (PLAY-FASTSCAN-STOP-REWIND-etc) took lots more time than on my machine. By the way, both our machines are top-of-the-line portables. His has 4 heads; mine has but 2. So, I cannot say this strongly enough: BUY BETA, YOU WON'T REGRET IT!! Jim Heliotis {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!jeh rocksvax!ritcv!jeh ritcv!jeh@Rochester