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The Significance of BetamaxThere’s a two-year difference in the release dates of the two tape formats, with Betamax arriving in the US in 1975 and VHS arriving in 1977. This is o

Betamax SpecsName: Betamax, Beta Tape Type of Media: Magnetic cassette tape Use: Home video Developer: Sony Release Date: May 10th, 1975 (Japan), November 1975 (U.S.) Encoding: NTS

Betamax HistoryThe name Betamax derives from two different places: “Beta” is the Japanese word for how signals are recorded on a tape, and the Greek letter for “beta” looks

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