Re: Is Paramount INSANE?!?!?

In article <r59gb39pleht5akms7to6jjkskb95id8fp@xxxxxxx>,
Archimedes' Lever <My Assistant: Zhang Heng> wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:56:32 GMT, glenzabr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (GMAN)
wrote:

But beta was NOT ignored by the pro market. It was used and still is for the
last few decades by TV stations and pro videographers up until the digital
formats started to roll around.

The pro beta and the consumer beta are two ENTIRELY different animals,
and the pro is 100% irrelevant to this discussion.

The consumer beta product was adopted by a niche clientele, at best.

When I bought my Beta - 99% of the sales were Beta - and the RCA
VHS was only introduced a month or so earlier.

And the ED-Beta was sort of a cross between the consumer beta and
the pro-beta.

I used the Beta-SP [metal] tapes in my ED. Resolution was
phenomenal with the test screen [with a Japanese tiger instead of
the Amreican Indian] showed it resovled to about 525 lines. Of
course there was the typical analog noise - but it was VERY low.

And the transport was more like the pro-Betas than the previous
consumer models. It was considered a pro-sumer machine.

I likened it to a slow-speed composite pro-beta. The thing that
really killed that machine was that it came out during the worst
dollar/yen ratio we had ever seen.

That meant the EDV-9500 listed for about $3500.

The only tapes I'd seen that were better were the pro Beta formats
- prior to the digital formats.

Bill


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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