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Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] FlyingSquid 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure they were BetaMax and not Betacam SP? Beta SP (as it's more commonly known) is a high quality format that was still being used by TV stations when I was working them as late as the 2010s. There were a few other later much higher quality formats like ED-Beta.

Also, I believe some camcorders also used Beta formats.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm sure camcorders were the reason. But no, they were BetaMax.