I'm quite younger so I wasn't around that format war but depends on who you ask you get different responses.

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Porn is probably a correlation with those other factors...

Also that quality was the only differentiation in the age of 480i seems a bit crazy to then try to get a licence fee out of it. I barely cared about the quality difference between VHS and DVD when it first came out until I got a better TV where I could actually see the difference, and I imagine the difference with beta max would be even smaller than that 😅

Edit: 480i, not 480p 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Back then, the TV and VHS picture quality was somewhere between 240p and 360p. Betamax was the first format available to consumers whose picture was 480p.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    IIRC most TVs only supported 480i until DVDs came out

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    Most could go to 576p, but it was rare for that to be broadcasted in the United States. It was mostly a Europe thing. And even when it was a thing, it only went on for a year or two.

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