The video format wars. One cassette has a long term future. One pushes out all the competition in its market. One has a successful future including high definition digital, the other is a technological dead end full of marketing failures. Why Beta won.

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00:00 Introduction
00:55 V2000
02:50 VHS and S-VHS
04:26 M and MII formats
06:57 Beta
07:34 Betacam and BetacamSP
09:19 Wall-E
10:05 More BetacamSP
11:56 Digital Betacam
14:24 HDCAM and HDCAM-SR
16:20 D9 or Digital-S failure
18:40 PCM digital audio
19:59 Beta leader tape, auto-stop
20:57 Conclusion