Why VHS Was Better

otis wildflower writes "An article in the UK's Guardian describes why, in the end, VHS is better than Betamax. While this may not be terribly useful knowledge on its own, the author then makes a pretty convincing case that viewing something's success or failure purely on technical merit is not an entirely accurate way of looking at things. For better or for worse, success of new products and technologies is determined by a broad range of factors that make up "the whole product", quality being only one, and possibly a minor one at that. Kind of explains what happened to the Atari Lynx and Jaguar, dunnit?"

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Why Iron was better than Bronze

Re:Not this crap again.

[Anonymous Coward]

Technolgy is art. Sony Beta systems, like art, can be found in museums.

Re:Not this crap again.

[buggy_throwback]

You do know that treating people differently because their blind and stupid is prejudice dont you?