> This is not true. Sony *did* license Betamax to other companies, among
> them, Sanyo, Toshiba, Zenith, and NEC. (FAST FORWARD: HOLLYWOOD, THE
> JAPANESE, AND THE VCR WARS, by James Lardner, pp. 159, 307) Those companies
> eventually switched their loyalties, however, to the VHS format, as t
<< > One last thought. I always hear that they reason VHS won out over
Beta was
> because you could fit more time on a VHS cassette. This was because the
> VHS cassette was a little bigger and could hold more take than Beta.
<< I think it has more to do with the fact that Sony refused to lic
