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From: jeh@ritcv.UUCP (James E Heliotis)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Bye bye Beta?
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Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 17:50:12 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 30 17:50:12 1984
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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
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