Home Beta was only one of a wide range of Beta formats - although it died, the professional range is still going strong today.

There was the pro digital audio PCM formats that used the same size tape, Betacam, which also used the same tapes but recorded video at better quality (for less time), Betacam SP and Betacam SX, which I think used tapes about twice as big to boost quality to serious pro levels, Digital Betacam, Betacam SX S, and nowadays HDCAM which is used for HD broadcast work.

- Andy_R


On 3 May 2013 10:18, Orbstreperous Fritz <orb@ocara.org> wrote:


My first master was on beta... 


On 3 May 2013 10:16, Antti Lavio <antti.lavio@possu.org> wrote:

On 3.5.2013 11:59, Nick King wrote:

Betamax was still being used for broadcasting well into the 90's.

It's still weird to see it as a master tape.

However, "Betamax also had a significant part to play in the music recording industry, when Sony introduced its PCM (Pulse Code Modulation) digital recording system as an encoding box/PCM adaptor that connected to a Betamax recorder. The Sony PCM-F1 adaptor was sold with a companion Betamax VCR SL-2000 as a portable digital audio recording system. Many recording engineers used this system in the 1980s and 1990s to make their first digital master recordings."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax)

So it might be real, but still bit odd as KLF used lot of DATs. Maybe it was requirement from cassette manufacturer.

Well, at least you can maybe count intended tracks for A/B-sides from those times :)

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anttil


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