Super BetaMax Beta Max Video Recorder Player w/ MOVIES Start Price USD 11.55 Current Price USD 203.50 Time Left - Bid Count 21 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, October 03, 2008 End Time Friday, October 10, 2008 Location SCRANTON, PA See more about 'Super BetaMax Beta Max Video Recorder Player w/ MOVIES' Description Super BetaMax Beta Max Video Recorder Player Mint Sony Super BetaMax Beta SL-300 In Excellent Working Order! This Machine is Mint!PLUS + I am Including a Beta Head Cleaner & Quite a few Great Movies with the Original Covers/Sleves! So far I have: Harold & Maude Ice Pirates High Road to China Never Cry Wolf The Little Rascals on Parade Critters Cloak & Dagger Spinal Tap Code Name Wild Geese Raiders of the Lost Arc The Fighting Seabees Unaffected by Anti Copy (Anti-Copy) chip Unlike in the VHS or DVD! Betamax has Long been Praised for Superior Image Quality & Loved for it's User Friendly Tape Handling Characteristics! Don't forget in Pixar Movie Wall-E Wall-E's Collection of Earthly Artifacts is Impressive, everything from a Pong Machine, to a Rubric’s Cube, to a Spork, to an IPod, & His Most Prize Possesion an old Betamax & a Tape of "Hello Dolly" Despite 8 Centuries of Wear and Tear, that Beta Machine and Tape Still Play Perfectly! The Tape of the Musical is Instrumental to His Life! He watches it Religiously Knowing it Frame by Frame He even Copies Sound Bites from the Beta to his Internal Hard Drive. Introduced in 1976 The BetaMax was Ahead of it's Time! "This is a Revolution" The result of the fervent development push was a VCR that used a Sony Diary sized video cassette tape, two-thirds the weight of the U-matic. The number of parts used was about half the number of the U-matic cassette tape. The new tape had a width of half an inch. Morita, president of Sony at the time, thought to himself, This is a revolution! Around 1973, the percentage of color televisions in Japanese households was overtaking that of black and white televisions. The VCR was the answer to the question on many people's lips: What comes after the color TV? Key players in the consumer electronics industry set out with vigor to deliver the answer to consumers, and Sony was very quick to have an answer. Sony's new VCR could be connected to a television and used to record one hour of video and audio. The TV guide no longer restricted what people watched on their televisions. They could record whatever programs they liked and replay them when they wanted. It truly was an entertainment revolution that would completely change people's lifestyles.Sony had to think of an appropriate name for this definitive product. What Kihara called the Azimuth Recording had been nicknamed the Beta Recording, beta being the Japanese word used to describe the way signals were recorded onto the tape. From this sprung the idea of using the word beta. Just as the tape path in the U-matic loading system resembled the letter U, the tape path in the new loading system closely resembled the Greek letter or beta, when seen from above. This symbol is associated with good luck and can be construed as a drawn out pronunciation of the English word better. Max, an abbreviation of the word maximum was intended to impart a meaning of grandness, and was then added to the end. The name Betamax was born.Article Provided by Sony Archives Free auction templates courtesy of Template-O-Matic.com If You Have Any Questions Please Just Ask! Place a Bid!