VHS, every mention
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SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:16 David Rosenthal You know, went the way of, uh, VHS, which we'll get to in a minute when DVDs came out.
- ▶ 59:54 David Rosenthal VHS is, it was the competing format that they lost to, which we'll get to in a minute.
- ▶ 1:04:53 Ben Gilbert I mean, at the end of the day, I, in the nineties grew up recording television on my VHS, my, my, I think my Sony VHS cassette player video, you know, VCR.
- ▶ 1:05:41 David Rosenthal So MCA starts working with the VHS format, which was made by
- ▶ 1:06:15 Ben Gilbert I didn't know this when we interviewed Michael through this relationship about developing the VHS format and then offering their content exclusively in VHS that MCA Universal had a preexisting relationship of collaboration with Matsushita.
- ▶ 1:06:45 David Rosenthal I wonder if them essentially anointing VHS and Metsusta as the winners was enough to drag the whole industry.
- ▶ 1:06:54 Ben Gilbert Okay, so Sony lost Betamax versus VHS.
- ▶ 1:20:54 Ben Gilbert Our family TV was a Trinitron, multiple family camcorders of going from the VHS version of it down to a, they had some other tape, did some kind of DV