Anyone know where I can get BetaMax? I have two cases of Beta tapes and . . .
Heh... Sony... "VTR" instead of "VCR", beta instead of VHS, MiniDisk, 8mm/Hi8 (which was a better format however)...
I think all laser/disk type systems will be overtaken by the falling price / rising capacity of chip formats that are used in digital cameras of various types (and I would like it if some company made an answering machine that used CompactFlash or whatever else). While I doubt that the chips will ever quite reach the price of blank laser media (although...) they use less juice, can have contents altered basically indefinitely, and are more format-flexible for obvious reasons. :')
I nabbed (as an experiment) some DVD files, and converted them to the recent format MP4. Reduced 'em to about a third of their original size, making it theoretically possible to burn a DVD movie onto a few cheap CDs. Of course, it took hours to complete the process, and I already have the DVD anyway, so...