Comments on: The Betamax Doctrine http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/23/the-betamax-doctrine/ All Blown Up Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:11:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Paul http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/23/the-betamax-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Paul Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:41:48 +0000 http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/23/the-betamax-doctrine/#comment-22 You're correct that current BetaCAM != BetaMAX, but the early form of BetaCAM was interchangeable. That said, I've swapped the pictures, because it just makes more sense. I was clearly not paying enough attention when I grabbed that image. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Betacam_betamax_tapes.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Betacam_betamax_tapes.jpg</a> You’re correct that current BetaCAM != BetaMAX, but the early form of BetaCAM was interchangeable. That said, I’ve swapped the pictures, because it just makes more sense. I was clearly not paying enough attention when I grabbed that image.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Betacam_betamax_tapes.jpg

]]> By: jcburns http://rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/23/the-betamax-doctrine/comment-page-1/#comment-21 jcburns Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:10:34 +0000 http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/01/23/the-betamax-doctrine/#comment-21 Uh, Paul...BetaMAX ≠ BetaCAM, which is what you've depicted in the photo here. The current Betacam is a still-surviving half-inch video analog standard that many smaller TV stations around the country use for shooting news stories (way way cleaner than Betamax, but still...analog, and roughly as good as DV25 inasmuch as you can compare analog and digital quality. Uh, Paul…BetaMAX ≠ BetaCAM, which is what you’ve depicted in the photo here. The current Betacam is a still-surviving half-inch video analog standard that many smaller TV stations around the country use for shooting news stories (way way cleaner than Betamax, but still…analog, and roughly as good as DV25 inasmuch as you can compare analog and digital quality.

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