Video formats war in Britain.

[Colly0410]

Here in Britain there was a 3 way video format war in the early 1980's. It was VHS v Betamax v V2000. They said Betamax & V2000 were better quality pictures than VHS, but VHS won in the end. The reason VHS won is because the big rental companies favoured them for some reason, & most British people rented their video's (& also TV's) back then. I've seen all 3 formats & couldn't tell the difference between them. The V2000 could be turned over like a cassette tape, it was 2 hours on each side IIRC. There were reports in the newspapers & magazines singing the praises of Betamax & V2000, but it didn't seem to make any difference to the VHS steamroller...