"You're Old!!!" moments

[SteveDallas]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Ha! we got sucked in to the Beta-max grove in 1982. The picture was better than VHS at the time, so the pron was always a little clearer.

Seriously? I had the impression that one of the reasons VHS won (the ONLY reason according to some people) was that Sony wouldn't license Beta to adult film distributors. Or, something.... one way or another, there was pron on VHS and not on Beta.

[xoxoxoBruce]

No, they wouldn't let other deck manufacturers use their proprietary system, trying to corner the market. The picture was better on beta, and the sound was an order of magnitude better. My buddy did a lot of music recording on beta, because you had to spend a fortune to get an audio tape recorder that was as quiet as the beta. I've still got a beta, along with a couple of VHS units, in the attic.

[Glinda]

It's 1981. I'm a 23-year old freshman in college (spent a few years dicking around ). My class goes on a field trip, and I bring along a stereo/cassette player with a couple of mixed tapes I made. The song Bad Company (major hit from a #1 album) plays.



Nobody in the bus knows the song.

*dies*

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

Seriously? I had the impression that one of the reasons VHS won (the ONLY reason according to some people) was that Sony wouldn't license Beta to adult film distributors. Or, something.... one way or another, there was pron on VHS and not on Beta.

Well we saw a ton of it on betamax. So someone was making it.