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Hi! It's Audrey with Southtree.com. Beta or Betamax tapes were a casualty of a
format war that was over before the 1980s. Betamax tapes had superior quality to the
VHS format, but had a limit of one hour of video recording and were more expensive.
Here's how you know that you have a Beta tape: They almost always have this awesome greek
letter beta, or what looks like a fancy B. If measured, they are 1 inch thick, 6 inches
wide, and 3 and 3/4 inches tall. Or about the size of a coke bottle.
Countless frames of important moments were captured on Beta tapes.
We're here to preserve and relive all those moments again.