----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: June 8, 2001 14:39 Subject: [USMA:13590] RE: Market forces > Han Maenen writes: > > > I distrust market forces. They do not necessarily boost the > > good things. They made inferior standards like VHS Video > > and the MSDOS PC the global ones. > > I think you are confusing "technically good" with "good." VHS had one > advantage over BETA at first: longer record time. While BETA had a better > picture, clearly customers preferred the longer record time. VHS was the > *better* solution, when the differences were weighted by customer > preferences. My opinion is that customers preferred the cheaper price of VHS, over BETA, not necessarily the longer record time.
