A History of Computer Data Storage & Media Format Wars | VHS vs BETA and MORE!

A Mini-Documentary for PC Gamers, cinephiles & music fans who have all experienced the ups & downs of having to keep & consume their favorite thing through a different medium. Vinyl Records to MP3's... Floppy Disks to SSD to the distant future of storing data on crystal disks. It's an ever changing landscape and HOW we got here is a telling tale. From Adult Movies influencing Home Video to killing a dozen trees to prove we don't have to kill trees. (sort of) In this video we take a look at some key turning points in Media Storage formats over the years and what we can learn from a wide angle view of that data.

Bill Gates photo : ©️ @louie1298 / @louiepsihoyos616

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Our Personal History with Memory Formats
02:12 - VHS vs BETA : The Sexiest Battle Ever
04:29 - The BIG picture ( Data!!)
06:27 - The End of other formats & Y2K
08:06 - What's Next? (Superman?)
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[cameroncole]

This channel should be bigger for its production quality.

[portersblackboard]

Fun video, especially the intro! I made the mistake of buying a mini disc player back in the day, but it was a nice little device. And I remember when Zip Drives were big. I used them for work but I didn't know many people who used them at home. And the problem with jogging with portable CD players was not the size at all. It was the skipping disc. I remember the first time I saw someone put one of those in a car, it would skip every time he hit a small bump in the road. But that got better of course. Eventually that same guy had a huge preloaded carousel of CDs in his trunk so that he could hit a button on his dashboard and choose between 20 - 50 or so CDs. Now we can carry that much music in a key pocket in a pair of jeans. Mind blowing to me how much technology changes.

[CXProductions]

I was there for it. Beta tapes still play to this day... but VHS was throwaway cheap... 🤷