IIA1 TON HILLS IMS Outlook on Business VIDEOT Guy Sony is beaten at Beta Tin Supreme Court ruled in Sony favor which was fortunate for the numskulls in Hollywood Today videotape sales make more money for movie studios than boxoffice re Half the homes In America have VCRs But they re not Betamaxcs I The VHS format licensed by the Matsushita company came along a year or so after Beta with a longer running cassette and slightly differ ent technology Although Beta By Guy MacMillin Little wonder Sony Introduced its J first home recorder In V TOKYO How did VHS clobber and nobody at the time predict u lhrough BeU and become the worlds home the profound Impact the thing Sony market blunder video standard I asked Kenji Ta have Soa Pilous creation the head of Sony consumer As often happens when somebody does somelhlngtentially lucrative Sffil We can win them all he an Sony was with a law L managing a thin smile Universal Walt v machines and other officials here at Productions complained the VCR Sony corporate headquarters would would ruin the i J J Quasar rather talk about the million Walk could stuff off the man audiotape players Sony has sold nad percent of the market Or about Sony plans to build TV sets never leave lheir Beta going to disappear but in Malaysia Or about heir taping copyright says the machines will be camcorders They rather talk about violation menace to every God liehend from now on not anything but what happened to the teaTing entertainer Betamax Is there a millionaire that achieved it through interest ITS YQUR MONEY Paul J Rockel I warn my savings lobe in where they arc guaranteed by Canada Deposit for up Hi SMI MX Have you ever heard thai Mile for mailer said ii your- Most think dollar it say that is ihe way yourself ai oilier que lion Do I know of or have I read i rhe ird about who has became andor a mil by interest other than study characters who at I is loan sharks charging mlcrcst at exorbitant rates such is 1 per week etc In my years in mutual fund 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Waterloo Ontario highend products from now i the- mill consumer items A new model called extendeddeflnl Hon or ED Beta will be in the stores this spring The picture Is said to be breathtaking A highspeed pro fessional version of the Beta format Is becoming the standard for broadcast news ABC CBS and most of their af filiates arc now using Beta also says Beta is doing well In some countries He mentions the Philippines Well that nice but the BeU in the United States Europe and Japan Is clearly painful for a proud company with a reputation for inno vation and quality As I was watching a demonstration of a new tlon set I asked a Sony technician what the source was He said It was a conventional reel loreel recording SAME DAY TAX RETURNS 101 Guelpn St Geori 8772217 DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC AW TRENTON 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 171o over 20 years HOW DOES YOUR COMPARE Ik haw your must menisci i to ndustn mnmkwiipMiiulriliirn if mustmu Is Over pas 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