| At the last count, Caouette had 1,349 films on VHS, Betamax and 16 mm, and 2,046 LPs and CDs from which he sourced material. |
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| This was the famous Betamax case which established the legality of the first video cassette recorder introduced into the commercial market. |
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| Every modern legal judgment concerning copyright, from the Berne Convention to the Betamax case, is on my side. |
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| Until recently, I thought electronic books were sharing a graveyard with eight-track tapes, Betamax video recorders and record players. |
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| In 1976, movie studios sued Sony over its Betamax videotape recorder, claiming it facilitated piracy. |
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| To my first ever trip to a video store, and the overwhelming choice of Betamax and VHS versions of Star Wars. |
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| Now we are about to see the Betamax vs VHS argument all over again with the imminent release of blue laser formats. |
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| And finally, on the technology front, Sony has announced it is finally going to stop producing Betamax video recorders. |
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| Technically inferior to Betamax, Sony simply bulldozed the format into dominating the market. |
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| How about the mass adoption of VHS over Betamax video format or the advent of full colour, cost effective glossy printing presses? |
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| That remote, the video recorder and the whole Betamax domestic system is now landfill. |
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| Some people compare MP3 versus Vorbis to VHS versus Betamax. |
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| But while Sony's public image moves boldly to the future, its product strategy is more in line with past Sony efforts, like the Walkman and Betamax. |
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| If you answered nine or more, you may have won a SONY betamax and an eight-track operating system. |
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| Japanese giant Sony came up with the Betamax format in 1975 but they cost the equivalent of pounds 5,200 today. |
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| This argument, however, didn't fly back in 1984, when the Supreme Court's Betamax decision gave consumers the right to record programs. |
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| In the Fall of 1977, George Atkinson bought one Betamax and one VHS copy of each of the first 50 movie titles that were then being sold to the public. |
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