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SETTANTAxOTTANTA: 1972. Philips lancia le videocassette VCR, anni prima della guerra dei formati Betamax vs VHS che vede Sony opporsi a JVC · 70 80

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  good morning today we are talking about the battle
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  of formats of video cassettes in fact we all
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  know the history of the war of video formats
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  or at least we thought we knew it for a short
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  period at the end of the seventies betamax also
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  called beta by sony and vhs by almost all the
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  other electronics manufacturers coexist on the
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  market but after a few months the market itself
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  chooses the vhs and everyone lives it happy and
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  happy but the story is much more articulate in
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  reality it even begins in 1971 with a strange
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  that is possible to see on the d7080 .it site.
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  It is the first video cassette introduced by
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  Philips in 1972, similarly to the abandoned stereo
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  audio format. is apparently not equipped with
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  two coils but only one in fact the format is
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  very different from the cassettes we are used
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  to how is it possible that there is only one
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  coil the answer is in the fact that the two parts
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  of the tape the one that contains how much you
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  still have to see the one that contains how much
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  has already been seen are overlapped instead
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  of side by side with the color that the tape
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  never ends the maximum duration of the cassettes
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  limited to 60 minutes but it is still appropriate
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  to use those from 45 even from 30 as the first
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  ones from 60 do not have the unpleasant tendency
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  of self -destruct the ribbon breaks into operation
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  as you can see from an advertisement that we
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  have taken from the philips catalog of 73 is
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  absolutely intuitive and this is an irony because
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  in the catalog you can see an incredible amount
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  of indications relative to each of the keys the
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  keys are a lot it will be because it was too
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  early in 73 Italians had for the most black and
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  white televisions and even some valves it will
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  be for the short duration of the cassette 60
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  minutes but the system presented several times
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  at the great fair in milan This rare document
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  was broadcast on television and recorded with
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  a Sony Betamax SL -C7 video recorder. For this
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  reason, today you can see it again in the background,
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  in slow motion, with stop of frame rate, in fast
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  forward. because this Sony video recorder allows
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  the MoViola effect. Sony Betamax. Guaranteed
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  by 3 million successes. The most sold in the
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  world. The cassette is presented as a normal
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  cassette with two coils like the audio ones.
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  It has a video quality that is slightly lower
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  than that of television programs. The audio quality
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  was, on the other hand, terrible. But the system
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  costs a lot, both on the video recorder side,
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  there was often talk of over a million words,
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  both on the cassette side. And so, a short time
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  later, JVC launches a competing system, VHS,
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  the one we all know, bigger cassette, worse video
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  quality and the same poor audio quality. But
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  the video recorder costs less and especially
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  the recorders. are produced by many brands, unlike
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  beta, which was almost a monopoly. Sony, video
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  recorders and virgin cassettes become so affordable,
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  but not pre -recorded films. It is not uncommon
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  for a title to cost even 80 ,000 lire, as in
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  the case of Terminator or Terminator 2, which,
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  by the way, was appropriate to buy rather in
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  support of LaserDisc with an even more interesting
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  format, of which we talk in a separate article.
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  We have written several times about the poor
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  audio quality of videocassettes, which may surprise
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  and surprise the younger readers used to listening
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  to soundtracks instead. even in Dolby Stereo
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  from these cassettes. Why? The reason is simple,
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  the first videocassettes recorded the audio in
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  the same way as the music cassettes with small
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  audio tracks next to the big ones dedicated to
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  the video, in short, they used a spare space.
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  In 1984, instead, the VHS Hi -Fi is invented,
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  the audio is embedded in the video track, modulated
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  in frequency, almost like a small radio transmission,
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  finally obtaining excellent audio quality. The
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  sound quality of the VHS Hi -Fi is so high that
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  it competes with even the born cd so much to
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  bring some enthusiasts to use the format for
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  recording purely audio programs we all know the
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  epilogue of the battle of formats until their
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  substantial disappearance in the early 2000s
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  the cassettes are available in the only vhs format
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  no trace of residue of beta but what was the
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  reason there are two explanations one more romantic
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  one more business the romantic one concerns the
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  industry of porn cassettes tired of having to
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  duplicate in incredible structures equipped with
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  hundreds of video recorders each title two una
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  per via che sono per il beta il leader della
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  film industry per adulti scelsero di commercializzare
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  le proprie opere solo sulla cassetta più economica
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  determinando la fine del beta altra teoria quella
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  meno romantica riguarda la disponibilità dei
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  titoli di hs supportato da molti costruttori
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  riesce ad accordarsi con tante major cinematografiche
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  rendendo disponibili miliardi titoli di film
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  storici e film attuali al tempo di cui stiamo
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  parlando dal canto suo sony che avrebbe completato
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  l 'acquisto di metro colt in mail solo nel can
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  count on a much more limited library of titles.
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  And so, in 1987, an announcement of Sony appeared
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  on all the magazines dedicated to video -housing.
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  From that day on, VHS video recorders would also
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  have been produced by the company, which was
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  nothing more than an alternative way of saying
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  only VHS video recorders at the beginning of
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