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Re(7): Rundfunkgebühren
15.07.2003, 11:12:54
Zu dem Thema hab ich was gefunden:

In the late 1970s / early 1980s, several incompatible video formats were on the marketplace. Philips offered VCR and VCR Long Play, Grundig offered SV (Super Video) and both companies later got together to make Video2000. Toshiba developed LVR (Longitudinal video recording) that worked in a similar way to 8-track audio tapes. However, the only early systems that had a lasting impact were VHS, invented by JVC and Betamax, invented by Sony. The Video Wars - VHS versus Betamax – was one of the largest battles ever fought for monopolising the marketplace.

Sony launched its product first in 1975 when it released the SL-6300 Betamax videocassette recorder and LV-1801 television console in Japan and the United States. In an effort to avoid potentially damaging competition, Sony offered to licence its Betamax technology to rivals JVC and Matsushita in 1974. The offer was refused, largely because at that time JVC was on the verge of releasing a machine that would double the recording time offered by Betamax. Sony was the sole player in the video market for almost a year, shipping 30,000 units to the United States alone. But the arrival of JVC’s ‘Video Home System’ (VHS) in 1976 initiated a full-scale format battle. VHS quickly built up sales momentum when JVC licensed the technology to four other major consumer electronics companies, including Matsushita and RCA with the Betamax camp replying when Sony struck deals with Sanyo, Toshiba and Zenith.

In frantic attempts to remain competitive and gain dominance over the market, both sides unleashed their price-cutting forces and engaged in rapid technological innovation. Recording times soared from one to four hours on a single tape, and timers, programmable recording, visual forward and rewind searching and wire-line remote controls were introduced. As from1978 the balance titled towards JVC, with the combined VHS forces outselling Beta by a two-to-one ratio. Sony was also overwhelmed by a legal action from Universal Studios and Disney, who accused the defendant of infringement of copyright.

Announcements in 1981 that VHS choice would be "slightly broader" were the start of the end of Sony’s Betamax format. Beta machines were actually cheaper than VHS at this time, but the narrower range of Betamax video titles started to dampen enthusiasm for the technically superior format. Following the decline of Betamax, Zenith switched to VHS in 1983, and in 1984 NEC, Toshiba and Sanyo followed. Increasingly, video rental stores stopped buying new Beta titles or ceased stocking the format altogether. In January 1987, with VHS controlling some 95 per cent of the market the Video Wars were over. The following year Sony conceded defeat by releasing its own VHS products.

In 1986 Sony presented the first digital videocassette recorder meeting the international digital television standards.

Auszug aus http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/project/2001/v362/g01v36204/members/James/eh00.pdf,
geschrieben von Evangelos Hadjichristodoulou (der Name kann was |-D;-)).

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