I’ll admit it. Freely. When I was younger —I mean much younger — I thought that Betamax video cassette recorders were the bee’s knees.
They were constructed better than any other video recorders, the sound quality was better, and the picture quality was superior.
At one point, Sony, the producer of Beta video cassette recorders, had 100 percent of the video recorder market.
Well, it doesn’t take a historian to know what happened with Beta. Market forces and better, cheaper, more-efficient technology made Beta obsolete in what felt like three-and-a-half months.
I don’t mention Beta to wax nostalgic about my childhood. I mention it because a friend metaphorical likened Jesus to Betamax.