I had an opportunity to scratch the Betamax itch recently at aRemsen estate sale.I bought the Sony SL-2400 model, along with a box of Betamax movies, for a decent price. The player even had the original manual, which I thought was cool... But it was only after I brought the Betamax...
This was another indicator that movies, for some, have no temporal context; it’s like overdosing on 5-7 movies during a film festival, after which the content and its meaning all blur, except this blurring in ongoing. There’s also the ingestion of movies from venues that seem to lack ...