<![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax? - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> Holy hell, the guy who owns the house my friends and I rent has one of these bad boys sitting in the front room. Right now it serves as a great place to put things on and subsequently forget about them!

The funny thing is, thanks to my dad being a huge beta fan until the day he died, I have the Star Wars Trilogy, Dune, Indiana Jones and a lot of other awesome things on Beta

jmb8504

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> @ashadowcastinred: I knew a guy who found one, but the only disc he had was Death Wish 3. But then, who really needs any others?

Justin K. Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> @Justin K. Rivers: A friend of mine bought a video disk player and a handful of discs for something like 30 dollars on eBay a few years back. I remain jealous.

ashadowcastinred

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> Betamax was great, but I'm holding out for the return of the video disc!

Justin K. Rivers

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> many eons ago when i worked in a lafayette radio store i actually sold one of the early betamax units, although it didn't have the built in trinitron.. about a year or so before that i sold a sony u-matic deck which, if i remember right, went for about $3500 in 1974 dollars.

firesign

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> Jesus Christmas, I've been attempting to break the time barrier for years!

ashadowcastinred

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> Videos don't play smoothly for me lately when I view them here.

Poor Beta. Poor poor beta.

Well at least it gave us something to slap Sony around with, and we got some mileage out of it too didn't we?

strider_mt2k

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> "You know, they just don't make shows like that anymore. Think they'll ever bring it back?"

"I doubt it."

(Conversation between forlorn Doctor Who fans, circa 2003.)

The guy in that exchange sounds just like the Ketchup guy from A Prairie Home Companion.

SeeingI

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> @se7a7n7: Check out the full, seven-minute version (linked to above) to learn how it worked. And I bet those neon silhouettes looked supercool in 1975.

Lynn Peril

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> That commercial is awful. They never show the TV being on or show how it works.

And those stupid neon silhouettes...

se7a7n7

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> Oh my God, I had one of those. If "Home Porn" had used Beta instead of the VHS format, you all would have had one too. It was a better format.

Zantor

]]> <![CDATA[Remember How Annoying People Were Before We Had Betamax?]]> Gotta love that sweet orchestral music in the background.

Dillenger69

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