What happened in the 1980s?
📼 VHS Dominates Over Betamax: By the mid-1980s, VHS emerges as the winner in the video format war, largely due to its longer recording time.
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Videotape format war - Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
Betamax vs VHS: The Story of the First Format War - Medium (medium.com)
Betamax vs. VHS History: The Videotape Format War - Legacy Box (legacybox.com)
VHS vs Betamax: Standard Format War - The ANSI Blog (ansi.org)
The Difference Between VHS and Betamax Tapes and ... - Capture (capture.com)
How did VHS win over Betamax? - Quora (quora.com)
Betamax vs. VHS Tapes: What is the Difference? - Forever Studios (foreverstudios.com)
How VHS Ultimately Defeated BETA - Jamie Logie (medium.com)
Strategic Maneuvering and Mass-Market Dynamics - jstor (jstor.org)
Working Paper Series No. 19 - Standards of Today - Berkeley Haas (berkeley.edu)