Sure but that never stopped the professional market. Lotsof Betas were sold to video production houses etc. Those are now all on the secondary market with collectors and hobbyists. It’s a cult ststus thing and they are sought after in that world.
Just look up anything with the word ‘vintage’ on ebay. It’s a license to print money.Anything old is sought after, usually by people with enough extra cash to have built a booming market.
For example, a Roland Juno 50 synthesizer. 5 years ago it got $3-400 at best. Today it’s headed north of $2000. Because it’s a famous name attached to old ‘retro’ musical gear.
It isn’t actually ‘worth’ a fraction of that. But they sell and resell in an upward spiral because people want the cool factor of ‘old tech’.
Tyopo hell...Juno 60
Yes, but a Beta box has very limited functionality these days Also, Super Beta and consumer Beta weren’t really all that compatible in the end. On top of which, they only ever made maybe a few hundred thousand Super Beta rigs (cameras, editing/playback decks) as opposed to literally a billion VHS rigs. One market has more options than the other.