Cheers Marco
I'm sure it'll get even more entertaining as time goes by.. The cave is quite homely thank you
Betamax gave a better picture than VHS simply because from the word go it had more lines on the TV if i remember correctly, the video drum & heads were better quality (looking back at it now). Betamax was Sonys' baby, it was actually JVC that was pushing the VHS format & if i remember correctly it was because they tied in with the film industry & got a load more films put onto pre recorded VHS tapes that killed off the Betamax
Betamax machines were still being used professionally though due to the higher picture quality
It wasn't until JVC developed the SVHS (Super VHS) that they surpassed the Betamax system. I can't quite remember the the amount of lines Betamax rendered but VHS was 250 lines, SVHS took that to 400 lines & a vastly better picture
The obvious one, Betamax vs VHS.. If i give it some thought i might think of something else. I don't think that the death of HD-DVD was a bad thing simply because blu ray uses a shorter wavelength laser & therefore can store more information than HD-DVD can on the same CD sized disc.
Unfortunately i get quite envious when i see HD-DVD discs go so cheap on ebay when in reality they can give as good a picture as blu rays do, i'm not about to purchase an HD-DVD player when it's already obsolete