Fuzzy Memories
 

On Feb 16, 1:06 pm, "Aaron J. Bossig"
wrote:
Hi All-

I have a fondness for abandoned or orphaned formats, so I'm
trying to track down something I remember from my childhood.
When I visited my local video rental shop, I recall some titles
being offered in three formats... VHS, Beta, and something else.
The "something else" was a tape considerably larger than a
VHS tape. I've been doing some research, and it's possible
that what I was looking at was a U-Matic tape, but it was so
long ago I'm just not trusting my memory.

Now, according to most sources, U-Matic was created much earlier
than VHS or Beta, so I'm not sure if it's realistic to think that
they were ever on the shelf at the same time. This would have
been 1987 or so. Possibly earlier, but I don't think so.

Were there any other mainstream formats at that time, with
a tape larger than VHS?

--

Aaron J. Bossig

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The other format was Quasar by Motorola. I purchased this player but
it was discontinued due to Betamax and VHS having more poularity

Fuzzy Memories
 

On Feb 28, 12:57 pm, wrote:

The other format was Quasar by Motorola. I purchased this player but
it was discontinued due to Betamax and VHS having more poularity-

Are you thinking of VX? (Quasar was a Matsu****a brand name, like
"Panasonic").

Not much pre-recorded media was marketed in the format, but it's
possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(videocassette_format)

R