“Porn killed Betamax.” Among the tech cognoscenti, this is often an article of faith, suggesting that A/V format wars are won and lost not on dull technical details such as price (VHS machines had a cheaper retail) and recording time (VHS tapes were longer), but in the sticky back r...
Sony was targeted in the lawsuit because the company developed and sold the Betamax brand video recording format. Universal considered this format to be a threat to the intellectual property (IP) of its TV programs. Advertisements VHS eventually replaced the Betamax recorder, but the U.S. ...
None was predictable. Why? Basically, a foraging ant has three choices: returning to the food source it successfully visited before; being persuaded by other ants, via a scent, to try the other pile; or turning to the humans. People can stick with a previous decision, change their minds ...
What was the competition like between VHS and Betamax? The competition between VHS and Betamax was fierce during the late '70s and '80s. Despite Betamax's superior video quality, VHS gained the upper hand due to its longer recording time. This longer recording capability appealed to consumers,...
The Betamax SL6500! I totally had this model!!! Severalreallysmartpeoplein our industry are arguing very publicly right now about a company calledReadabilityand how great and/or evil their service is. One side thinks what Readability does is wrong, and by extension, that the company’s founde...
Betamax and VHS were dueling for supremacy in the video recording wars, but by the end of the decade VHS had come out on top. Cassette tapes, introduced in the '60s, became increasingly popular throughout the '70s and pushed the 8-track into the dustbin of history. The '70s heralded th...
It was shot in a very wet Patagonia in southern Chile as well as the capital Santiago. Time Based Arts delivered the impossible one shot that takes us up, around and finally under the car, exploring it in every angle. The film forms part of a wider campaign with six stills from ...
Betamax and VHS were dueling for supremacy in the video recording wars, but by the end of the decade VHS had come out on top. Cassette tapes, introduced in the '60s, became increasingly popular throughout the '70s and pushed the 8-track into the dustbin of history. The '70s heralded th...
Let’s get started with one of the strangest examples of innovation failure: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy. 1. The Nintendo Virtual Boy Marketed as a virtual reality gaming console, in fact theVirtual Boywas nothing close to an actual virtual reality system. ...
The world is in the early stages of a digital revolution. In 100 years, who knows how it will have evolved and what will happen to today’s technologies. Remember Betamax videotapes anyone? Theblockchain is a nascent technologythat is ideal for storing digital assets su...