{"id":8719,"date":"2015-09-24T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2015-09-24T14:11:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T18:11:03","slug":"is-blackberry-going-the-way-of-betamax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=8719","title":{"rendered":"Is Blackberry going the way of Betamax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first video recorder (circa 1984) was a Sony Betamax.<\/p>\n<p>The Beta format\u00a0had hi-fi stereo recording capabilities before that was available in VHS and the picture quality was considered better, but the smaller cassette size limited the recording length on a single tape. For the handful of people who figured out how to program their video cassette recorders, VHS won the format battle because it could handle 6 hours on a single tape, equivalent to a full week of a favourite soap opera for weekend binge viewing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/1LQfcoj\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Post quotes a\u00a0Scotiabank report<\/a> from Daniel Chan that makes me wonder if Blackberry is at risk of going the way of the Betamax:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While BB10, in our opinion, is technologically superior to many mobile platforms, it has failed to generate the recovery BlackBerry had hoped for and continues to be the primary source of losses for the company<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One has to ask if Blackberry is offering a technically superior solution that the broad marketplace simply doesn&#8217;t value sufficiently to allow the product to remain viable.<\/p>\n<p>Is my Blackberry going to move into the same\u00a0museum as my\u00a0Betamax?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first video recorder (circa 1984) was a Sony Betamax. The Beta format\u00a0had hi-fi stereo recording capabilities before that was available in VHS and the picture quality was considered better, but the smaller cassette size limited the recording length on a single tape. For the handful of people who figured out how to program their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=8719\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Blackberry going the way of Betamax?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Blackberry going the way of Betamax? &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My first video recorder (circa 1984) was a Sony Betamax. 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