Will SONY bring back the Betamax ?

Betamax was a VCR that lost the war to the VHS format .

Well, if Sony continues to play its cards wrong, they'll have themselves another Betamax in Blu-Ray. will they bring back the 5" floppy disk, or the diskette in that case?

i think not.

I remember watching a tv show where a guy walks down the long steps from a law building holding a diskette and says in a powerful voice, "imagine the technology involved in a piece of technology this large that holds more than 15 million computerized letters!"...then the camera pans out...

still gives me the shivers...imagine the technology! What do you mean bring it back? It's still here as far as I know. No they won't...even though it was better than VHS. Yeah, But on the other side of the coin, VHS was a VCR that lost the war to the DVD format. DVD's offer superior audio and video quality to any VCR. So my answer would be "no".

Besides, Who'd want to go back to an old analog system over a digital one? You can fit roughly 3 dvd's (in cases) in the same space as a Beta or VHS tape. And if you stack them without cases, I count about 20 dvd discs vs. the single VHS cartridge.

And as far as storage capacity... On most common writable DVD's you get about 6 hours of recording time. (Some you get more or less time depending on the type.) But on average it's about 6 hours. You also can get 6 hours of recording time on a VHS cassette. So they are pretty much equal in thier recording capacity.