The History of Home Media
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2022
- This is a documentary video essay on the history of physical media from Betamax to Bluray and the obstacles that hit every generation.
As a collector of movies this has always been a fascinating subject to me. I hope you all find it as interesting as I do!
Be sure to check out these other awesome collectors!
Films at Home - / @jeffrauseo
Dan Murrell - / @danmurrellmovies
The Discfather - / thediscfather
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As someone else pointed out, Betamax did not offer longer recording/playback time. In fact until the slower Beta-II speed was introduced recording time for a L-500 tape was 1 hour. One reason VHS did so well it’s most common tape length T-120 offered from 2 to 6 hours of recording time. Most A-list titles released for rental on VHS and Beta were released at SP and B-II speeds respectively. Also the slower speed of B-II over its higher quality B-I pretty much negated the whole superior quality of Beta. We’re talking a whole 10 lines of resolution.
Also Beta and VHS never tried to come to a truce. Beta was already on store shelves.
DVD was the result of two competing formats in development. Sony was behind MMCD (multi-media CD) and Toshiba was developing a similar higher density format called SD (super density?). They agreed in 1995 to merge the best of each format and created the Digital Versatile Disc. That’s why it took another year or two to finally get it released.
Sony had been working on Blu-ray before they merged the low density MMCD with Toshiba’s SD. The DVD Consortium knew Sony was up to something because everytime the Consortium wanted to discuss a HD successor to DVD, Sony would abstain or throw a wrench into the proceedings.
Eventually at the 11th hour Toshiba and Sony tried to settle their differences but a certain large software company came in and offered to back the format that was already significantly losing in content licensing prior to release. Many think this was done to keep either format from succeeding. The market and enthusiast community were divided for several years. Both sides claimed the other side was playing dirty pool.
From a technical perspective the Blu-ray was the proper successor since it held more data per layer and it had room to improve. We have 128GB BDXL discs today for archiving and 100GB manufactured discs for prerecorded content.
HD DVD used the old physical DVD specs for how deep the data was contained and it significantly lessened the amount of data that could be stored by 10GB/layer.
Almost every early BD release had uncompressed PCM audio(a version of lossless sound) where very few HD DVDs had that option available.
The video lost me when you said VHS had a shorter recording time then Betamax. That is untrue, I've found the article you've used (it's one from Kodak and it is very much wrong).
When Betamax launched it could only record one hour of video onto a single cassette where as VHS could record two at launch. As technology advanced and slower recording speeds came along you could fit more on a tape, at the slowest recording time the longest VHS tape could hold up to 12 hours when compared to Betamax's 5 hours.
Titanic could fit on a single tape (and in the PAL regions, where it's still over 3 hours despite PAL speed up it came on a single tape) but the studios in America decided to put it on 2 for some reason (and if Titanic came out on Betamax it would have been on 2 tapes as well).
Also with the picture quality on Betamax being slightly better, well it's so subtle no one would notice (especially on an old CRT TV). The only time you would notice a difference is with the B1 speed on Betamax (which could only record 1 hour) and the SP speed on VHS (which could record 2 hours) however the B1 speed was scrapped by the late 70s so there's no difference and the "Betamax having better picture" argument is just marketing speak.
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great video but DVD actually stands for Digital Versatile Disc, a common mistake though
Great video but I wanted to point out that there is only one channel of audio during the VO.
My left ear found this interesting.
Great video, but no history of home media wars is complete without mentioning how the adult film industry played their part in who came out on top (pun wasn't intentional 😬🤣).
Good video on the history of home media. I only have a minor issue with the video is it's the audio. The audio is too low.
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Not a few minutes in and you got youre facts wrong. 😂
I don't fully understand why people care for steel books so much. I avoid them if I can.
Did you know that Walmart and Best Buy are going to stop carrying physical media next year?
You need to do actual research unless this is a joke video. One of the key reasons VHS beat beta was the longer playtime on a vhs. You could record shows and sports games on the longer running vhs. Not trying to be rude but you screwed up one the most basic and well known facts within minutes of your vid. I was waiting to hear you say and that’s why Betamax won the war.