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Q: Who knows how Betamax got its name?
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It had a double-meaning: beta is the Japanese word for the way signals are recorded on the tape; and the shape of the lowercase Greek letter beta (β) resembles the course of the tape through the transport
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Had one during my high school days. The way the tape was fed around the video drum was very weird compared to VHS. That thing must have pulled out about a foot of tape. Interesting to see and by far the better video quality was on Beta. I wish I would have kept it but I couldn't find any movies or more blank tapes.
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I never knew that was the reason. It seems so obvious now.
