Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 08:33:52 +0100
Message-ID: <ec012863-9f5c-097f-fb33-122b351176ab@laosinh.s.bawue.de>
On 1/12/19 11:12 PM, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sat 12 Jan 2019 at 20:33:23 +0000, smf wrote:
>> Video 2000 came when VHS had already won, I don't remember ever seeing any
>> pre-recorded tapes.
> 
> At school a friend of mine (or rather his parents) had a Video 2000
> recorder. We sometimes went there with a couple of guys and rented some
> bad movies (no porn; we were a bit young for that I suppose ;-)

The thing about Video2000 was that it had better image quality. No 
dropouts and no distortions when fast forwarding. And you could flip the 
tapes like a compact cassette, giving you 2 x 4 4 hrs per tape. I think 
near the end they even had VCRs with autoreverse.

I thought it was the better system, but too many people thought 
otherwise and bought VHS.

  Gerrit
Received on 2019-01-13 09:00:04

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