He’s just bitter about buying a Betamax.
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But beta is better damnit!
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Don’t worry, it’s non-ionizing radiation.
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I’m sorry, I can’t cook your toast right now. I’m involved in a community effort to deny service to very naughty computer security journalist.
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If I’m going to spend too much money on a toaster oven it better look like it was designed by Dieter Rams.
Or possibly Terence Conran ca. 1975
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Those are pretty sweet lookin, think i’ve seen the first one somewhere. Maybe here at BB i’m not sure.
“It’s a miracle! An image of Jesus just appeared on my toast and he’s demanding bitcoin to ever cook anything again!”
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Yeah, thank goodness that 21inc cuecat-like scheme failed gloriously on a hundred million dollar investment.
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Video, video cameras, tape decks/recorders, tapes, and even the tape formats in question already existed at the time. As neccisary portions of Television production. Which was always video based from its inception in live broadcast. Even some of the tape formats themselves were derivative of larger professional grade tape formats. Beta MAX being just a cheaper consumer version of the various (still in use) Beta formats used in broadcasting. VHS was newer (70’s) and developed specifically for the consumer market with the express purpose of recording TV. But it still ended up with a space in the professional ecosystem (S-VHS). VTR/VCRs date to the 50’s. And early attempts to commercialize them for home use started in the 60’s
So the launch of consumer VCRs in the 70’s to 80’s was less introducing some new flashy tech innovation for rich people to play with. Than it was taking existing technology and repackaging it at lower cost for the consumer market. Sure a grand or so to record TV (And off your home video camera. Many early decks provided the record medium for home video cameras as well) was lot at the time. But it was a hell of a lot less than the thousands to tens of thousands we still pay for professional video decks. Even with many of them no longer using tape these are still integral to production.
This abomination isn’t a cheaper version of a piece of commercial equipment giving the public access to functions they didn’t previously have. Its a pricier version of existing cheap consumer goods with a bunch of “features” tacked on to increase cost and sell it better. Features that apparently make it worse than the thing its supposedly an advancement on.
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