Comments on: Odyssey Video Games https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/odyssey-video-games/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: John H https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11511 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:57:59 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/07/29/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11511 Betamax was definitely the better quality product. They finally got their revenge with Blu-Ray.

]]> By: YesterdayIsNow https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11510 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:35:19 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/07/29/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11510 Yeah, but 6 hours was only on SLP speed and the video quality was horrific.

]]> By: Anonymous https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11509 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 03:50:24 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/07/29/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11509 "The Odyssey video game system was the #1 choice of dads who purchased a video disk player instead of a VCR."

You mean they were the trend-setters willing to drop the equivalent of a mortgage payment just to make their kids happy, right?

😀 This Anon simply couldn't help it. 😀

Video disk players were the #1 choice of dads who were more concerned with video quality instead of taping edited TV movies and sit-coms.

That isn't snarkiness, either. VHS won the Great Videotape War because the format had a larger recording capacity. Didn't matter that Betamax delivered a better video. Didn't matter that Betamax had a smaller footprint.

Nope.

Betamax topped out at five hours recording, with two hours being average. That meant one movie a tape. VHS could store six hours comfortably which was at least three movies and a season finale of Family Ties.

]]> By: YesterdayIsNow https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11508 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:42:16 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/07/29/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11508 The Battery Eliminator ruled!

]]> By: Rick Dunn https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11507 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 18:45:07 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2019/07/29/odyssey-video-games/#comment-11507 How awful is it that I had one of these AND and an RCA video disc player. I also had the JVC VHS player with GIANT colored buttons.

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