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Podcast: Hypnotic History
Episode: E52: Betamax
Description: The first method for recording live television that sparked an infamous lawsuit with Disney and Universal Studios.
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Sources:
“Betamax and VHS.” NYU Stern, 28 August 2002, https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~lcabral/teaching/betamax.pdf.
DeMain, Bill. “How Mister Rogers Saved the VCR.” Mental Floss, 7 June 2018, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29686/how-mister-rogers-saved-vcr.
Elliott, Elaine. “5 Things You Might Not Know about BetaMax Tapes.” Kodak Digitizing, https://kodakdigitizing.com/blogs/news/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-betamax-tapes.
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