betamax vs vhs
Perhaps the biggest product war on the modern consumer’s mind is the ongoing battle between Mac and PC. From developers’ conferences to television commercials, Microsoft and Apple are actively engaged in a constant tug of war for customer loyalty. Though most of us are familiar with this heavily popularized competition (the more silly aspects of which are making their way to YouTube memes), substantially fewer of us are likely to remember a time when a very different sort of format war was being waged: The war between VHS and Betamax. The period of time between the late 1970s and early 1980s saw intense competition between these two home video formats, with VHS eventually emerging as the winner.