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Betamax  If one can stretch their memories back to just a few years ago when HD DVD and Blu-ray were battling it out over who would become the newest video format for the home consumer, a similar war was waged in the mid 1970s between good old VHS and Sony’s Betamax for the next best broadcast-quality camcorder. Obviously, VHS won out and even today some of us are still clinging to our beloved copies of VHS movies that haven’t been made on DVD even though most of us have nothing to play them on.  Betacam  After the failure of Betamax, Sony introduced the Betacam format in 1982 and it was a resounding success in the professional video production industry. Betacam tapes were available in small or large and had 300 lines of horizontal resolution. The Betacam was portable and while they would be considered quite clunky today, for the time …