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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 06:56:22PM -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
> > That's the popular story but it's not true - porn was available on Betamax (
> > e.g. Playboy released their stuff on both formats). Betamax's downfall was
> > due to a combination of factors including cost and capacity. Betamax tapes
> > could initially only hold one hour - not enough for a movie. This was
> > probably the biggest single factor.
> 
> There's porn that's an hour long?

My very favorite anecdote of all time:

Someone who works at Spectravision reportedly told a friend (yeah, I
know, but I can't source it right now) that the average running time of
an adult film in a Spectravision serviced (hee) hotel room...

is about 17 minutes.

Cheers,
-- jra
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