Right now.........the #1 reason to be on the net is social networks...........but, for the longest time........it was porn............

Betamax Didn't Lose To VHS Because Of Adult Films ...

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Mar 5, 2014 - The legend is that Sony's Betamax lost the. ... “Videotape Format Wars” to VHS because Sony refused to mass produce pornographic films. ... Sony thought that, for the good of the industry, companies would only stick to one ...

Betamax vs. VHS: How Sony Lost the Original Home Video ...

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Jun 17, 2014 - Yet Betamax won the professional market as an archival format., ..... lost was because VHS supported the porn industry and Betamax did not.

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May 11, 2011 - the porn industry played a crucial role in the victory of JVC's VHS overSony's ... One oft-recalled explanation for the failure of Sony's Betamax ...

Opinion: Is Sony's Blu-ray Porn Stance Repeating Betamax ...

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Feb 7, 2007 - There was such a demand for porn that Betamax - despite being a ... more or less, to protect its brand by keeping it away from the porn industry.

stevemargolis.com | How porn killed the Betamax

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Jul 23, 2012 - But over the next 10 years, Sony's Betamax format and JVC's VHS format ... The porn industry standardized their distribution on the VHS format.

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VHS: Betamax lost because they didn't license porn (or did so too late) ... And also, because of Sony's strict licensing to the format, companies ...

snopes.com: Did Porn Kill the Beta Tape?

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Someone's demonstrating a remarkable familiarity with porno video tapes. .... What killed Beta was a strategic marketing error by Sony; they tried to control a .... Now, if the industry would just settle on a single format for HD. .... Max Grundig, owner of Grundig, even went so far as to think that *only* quality ...

How Sony's Betamax lost to JVC's VHS Cassette Recorder ...

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In 1976 Sony introduced the Betamax video cassette recorder. It catalyzed ... Porn. Yep the porn industry ...

How Betamax Was Going to Change Your Life, According to ...

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May 8, 2015 - Sony launched Betamax on May 10, 1975 and, in America, it was ... theadult film industry was a primary reason for Betamax's downfall. Sony ...

Amazon.com: Customer Discussions: Was betamax really not as good ...

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Sony would not the porn industry use their format. Betamax was superior in most ways but you could rent regular movies in both formats and record on both ...